Ecclesiology: A Study in Church History It is impossible to know where the present-day Catholic Church is heading without having some idea of where it is presently at, and where it has been. This site will enable you to identify some of the models of the Church as they operated in various times in history and to analyze and understand the contemporary life of the Church.
Good Pope John June 2003 marked the 40th anniversary of the death of Pope John XXIII. How did people of the day respond? Here is a reprint from that time by Des O'Connor SJ, then editor of The Messenger.