Council of Trent

What Would Have Stopped Martin Luther

by Michael D. Breidenbach

By convening a council, the Church might have averted the Reformation. Continue Reading »

Trashing Luther

by Russell E. Saltzman

Theological hobbyists of a hyper-Catholic sort continue to misconstrue Luther’s “errors.” Oh, I hardly think he was error-free, but (having recently been one) I know Lutherans who pretty much think he was essentially infallible. But I also know Catholics (me having recently become one) who . . . . Continue Reading »

The Tridentine Genius of Vatican II

by Thomas Joseph White

Fifty years after the opening of the Second Vatican Council, two schools of thought dominate the interpretation of that event. One derives from the theology surrounding the post-conciliar journal Concilium, founded by theologians like Hans Küng and Edward Schillebeeckx. It advances a progressivist . . . . Continue Reading »