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About Father David Vincent Meconi, S.J
Father David Vincent Meconi, SJ is associate professor of historical theology at St. Louis University and editor of Homiletic & Pastoral Review.
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Salvation and Christian Evangelization: Vatican II in Continuity with Tradition

November 21, 2013 Father David Vincent Meconi, S.J 0

In the second century, Christians were not much more than convenient culpabilities for the Roman government and disposable distractions for pagan entertainment. Despite the hostility between the Church and the rest of the world, however, […]

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Pope Benedict’s Patristic Perspective

April 18, 2010 Father David Vincent Meconi, S.J 0

Such an insight is surely rooted in Benedict’s own love of the Church and in his study and command of Catholic doctrine, but also, more particularly, in his love of the early Church Fathers. For […]

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Pope Benedict’s Patristic Perspective

April 18, 2010 Father David Vincent Meconi, S.J 0

In his (now famed) Christmas Address to the Roman Curia (December 22, 2005) Pope Benedict contrasted the two ways of understanding the Second Vatican Council. While some have insisted on seeing the Council as a […]

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Mary Ebertstadt: Contraception and its consequences not “just a Catholic thing.”

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As a follow-up of sorts to my post yesterday about Conrad Black’s plea for the pope to jettison and denounce the Church’s sane, logical, and moral stance regarding contraception, this news from Franciscan Univerity of […]

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