COMMENTARY: In the fifth chapter of the dogmatic constitution, the Church solemnly proclaimed, for the first time, that all ...

The Second Vatican Council’s vision for the liturgy was rooted in ... By examining the conciliar documents’ treatment of the liturgy and tracing the history of post-conciliar liturgical reform, this ...

In 2018, Pope Francis promulgated the apostolic constitution Veritatis Gaudium, which was a document devoted to the reform of ...

A look back at the Second Vatican Council through the coverage offered by America and Commonweal offers two lessons: First, ...

Apostolic Exhortation on Jesus Christ and the Peoples of Oceania: Walking His Way, Telling His Truth, Living His Life Pope John Paul II Rome, November 22, 2001 Reference to Mary: paragraph 5 and 53, ...

That includes punishments handed down by John Paul II, Benedict XVI ... Earlier this year, the Vatican provided documents to the U.N. during a previous round of questioning by a different panel ...

The Mole of Vatican Council II has its strengths and weaknesses ... let readers know that most of it is based on primary source documents: Murphy's articles, diaries, personal letters, interviews ...

The recently opened archives of Pope Pius XII have shed new light on claims the World War II-era pope didn ... Now the new documents from the Vatican’s central governing office are fleshing ...

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(OSV News) — On the occasion of St. John Paul II’s 1984 visit to Fairbanks, Alaska, at the start of a trip to Far East ...

The Second Vatican Council officially launched the Catholic Church into the ecumenical movement. A reexamination of these texts more than fifty years later suggests areas of critique as well as ...