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Priests’ association celebrates values of Vatican II
When about three dozen priests from across the United States gathered at the University of St. Ma...
When post-Vatican II Catholics wondered, ‘What’s a church?'
Like most Americans who live in major East Coast and Midwestern cities, I have always belonged to parishes with century-old church buildings that fit a certain style: tall, long, ornate, likely gothic. When I first began researching the more modern-looking Catholic churches that began cropping up in the postwar boom, I was drawn to the major buildings which, like St. Norbert’s Abbey in De Pere, Wisconsin, (dedicated 1959) were intended by their builders to last for a millennium.
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