Communio International Catholic Review

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The Pontificate of John Paul II witnessed a veritable explosion of "new life" in the Catholic Church around the world, a "new life" that breathes the authentic "spirit of Vatican II." Communio: International Catholic Review has been a part of this explosion since its founding in the early 70s by friends and collaborators of the Pope such as Joseph Ratzinger, Henri de Lubac, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. John Paul II unarguably set the Church on the path to the genuine renewal called for by the Second Vatican Council a renewal that eschews both accommodation to the zeitgeist and sectarian bitterness in order to let the light of the Gospel shine on the questions, problems, and anxieties of the age. Ever since its inception, Communio has been committed to this program of renewal through return to the sources of the authentic Tradition. The name of the journal itself bespeaks this commitment. Communio a term called the key to the ecclesiology of Vatican II by Cardinal Ratzinger refers to what is the source, the means, and the goal of the Church's life: the Trinitarian communion that graciously wills to draw all of creation into its loving embrace through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ that the Spirit keeps perennially present in the communio of the Church and its universal mission. Wishing to offer sustenance to those seeking a way beyond the frustrating "either-ors" that still block the true renewal the Pope has called for, Communio strives to let the...

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