Concilium

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Concilium is a world-wide journal of Catholic theology. It was begun in 1965 and is published five times a year. The journal was founded by Marie-Dominique Chenu, Yves Congar, Karl Rahner, Edward Schillebeeckx, and Hans Küng. The journal is recognized as reformist in its approach to theology.

Its editors and essayists encompass a range of theological scholars. Not only the significant theologians of Catholic theology, but also those from many other parts of the world and other religions, have written for this journal.

Concilium aims at promoting theological discussion in the "spirit of Vatican II" out of which it was born. It is a catholic journal in the widest sense: rooted in the Catholic heritage, open to other Christian traditions and the world's faiths. Each issue of Concilium focuses on a theme of crucial importance and the widest possible concern for our time. With contributions from Asia, Africa, North and South America and Europe, Concilium strives to reflect the multiple facets of a world church through a Catholic perspective.

It is often considered to be the sister publication and theological rival to the journal Communio, which was founded in 1972 by modern theologians critical of what they considered Concilium's overly reformist and modernist bent. These included Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac and Joseph Ratzinger, the later Pope Benedict XVI.