The Vatican Council, Volume II Caryll Houselander Gilby on “Poetic Experience”

Gilby on “Poetic Experience”

… The Spirit of God has passed through these poems every one

and popes through the ages

(1898–1972) was a French Dominican priest

The Vatican Council, Volume II Caryll Houselander Gilby on “Poetic Experience”By Cuthbert Butler, O. S. B. The First Vatican Council is a landmark in the history of the Catholic Church. Not since the momentous Council of Trent, held from 1545 to 1563, had a pope invoked his apostolic authority to open an ecumenical council, as Pope Pius IX did on December 8, 1869, in St. Peters Basilica. In 1869 as in 1545, storms buffeted the Barque of the Church, threatening to subvert and submerge its mission. To confront and refute errors