The Vatican's new document on implementing synodality acknowledges the energy and enthusiasm experienced by those who have ...

I was thinking of something Pope Francis said a few years ago when the Vatican released “Pathways for the Implementation ...

October 11, 1962, will be remembered as one of the great days of modern church history. For on this day the “Second Vatican Ecumenical Council,” which, in the terminology of Pope John XXIII ...

Pope Francis on Tuesday called for church unity during one of the most polarised periods in modern Catholic history, as he marked the 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council.

Defenders of the Second Vatican Council from a center-right perspective have insisted that nearly all negative indicators of the Catholic Church have stemmed from the “spirit of the Council.” ...

The tiny, but vocal group of Catholics trying to perpetuate the Tridentine Rite are pressuring Pope Leo to stop phasing out ...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, or Vatican II, which opened the Catholic Church's window onto the modern world. Among other things, it gave a larger role to lay ...

The Vatican official's emphasis on Romero's place in the story of the Second Vatican Council, a worldwide meeting of bishops held from 1962-65 known for introducing reforms to the Catholic ...

The Second Vatican Council, the great revolution in the life of the modern Catholic Church, opened 60 years ago this week in Rome. So much of that 1960s-era world has passed away, but the council ...

The major documents of the Second Vatican Council are an excellent way to grasp the event. Here’s how John Paul II’s Feb. 27, 2000, address summarizes them: ...

Germain Grisez is one of America’s most respected Catholic philosophers. For 30 years, until 2009, he held the Most Rev. Harry J. Flynn Professor of Christian Ethics chair at Mount St. Mary’s ...