Good News cannot by spread by everyone thinking, saying or doing their own thing

TP O’MAHONY has given us his overview of the 21 great councils of the Catholic Church up to Vatican II (1962-’65) and now gives us his Vatican III and the agenda for it (January 2).

But in this case where one would expect it, and indeed in any of his writings he never tells what the church is for, though this is repeated often round the world, as on Christmas Day and again on Sundays: “The Word was made flesh and lived among us.”

God took on this human nature, his creature’s flesh and blood, so that we might participate in the divine nature. This is the Good News, the gospel in old English, the so-scéal in Irish.