History sometimes displays the happy capacity to arrange anniversaries so that one sheds light on another.
On Nov. 21, 1964, Pope Paul VI solemnly promulgated the Second Vatican Councilâ??s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, which began by proclaiming Christ the â??light of the nationsâ? and is thus known as Lumen Gentium. Twenty-five years later, on the night of Nov. 9-10, 1989, the Berlin Wall was breached and the communist project in Europe collapsed, reduced to rubble like the masonry that divided Germany for decades. Fifty years after Lumen Gentium and 25 years after the Revolution of 1989, we can see more clearly that the Council had something to do with the communist crack-up.
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