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.
Fifty years ago today, Pope John XXIII called a council The Council after 50 years: an author's invitation to forgiveness, to moving ahead.
Ninety-three years passed between Vatican I (1869 -1870) and Vatican II (1962 -1965). Many believed the church had been doing quite well as it was, and should resist any enterprise that would disturb its temporal order. But not Pope John XXIII.