Author profile: Aaron Milavec

Aaron Milavec, Professor Emeritus, received his S.T.B. from l’Université de Fribourg in systematic and historical studies before earning his Th.D. at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He has been a seminary and university professor for twenty-five years, and has worked with Catholic academics from Catherine of Siena Virtual College in the UK over the last six years to establish an innovative online program of international gender studies. His website, www.Didache.info, promotes research and exchange on issues of the early church. His thousand-page commentary, The Didache: Faith, Hope, and Life of the Earliest Christian Communities, 50-70 C.E., received a 2004 Catholic Press Club award recognizing the best books in theology. See www.didache.info/Interview.htm for details. His latest study, Salvation Is from the Jews, appeared in 2007.

Papal Politics, Paul VI, and Vatican II: The Reassertion of Papal Absolutism

Aaron Milavec • Jul 28 2013 • Articles

After Pope John XXIII died, Paul VI used three encyclical letters to defeat the conciliarism of Vatican II, and advance papal absolutism in areas like indulgences, celibacy, and birth control.

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