Chameleon Catholicism – Rome’s Different Faces

Has Rome Changed? Has Roman Catholicism changed? Is it even possible for Roman Catholicism to change, in view of Rome's insistence on the infallibility of the Pope? Rome's own unofficial motto is Semper Idem, "Always the Same." Yet, many point to the Second Vatican Council, held in 1962-1965, as proof of Rome's willingness to change. A blurb on the back cover of a volume of the documents of that council calls Vatican II "the Ecumencial Council that changed the Catholic Church -- and possibly...