The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass ...

Start with the documents of Vatican II. Opinion. NCR Voices. Pope John XXIII leads the opening session of the Second Vatican Council on Oct. 11, 1962, in St. Peter's Basilica.

(RNS) — Conservatives, reading Vatican II's documents like biblical fundamentalists, miss what it meant to participants. (RNS) — With the passage of 60 years since the opening of the Second ...

The Documents of Vatican II. There is no substitute for reading all 16 official documents of the Second Vatican Council.

The Vatican II documents provide definitive teachings on the nature of the church, on the nature of the human person and on the vocations of the baptized.

Cardinal Zen warned against interpretations of Vatican II not “faithful to the documents of the Council, but rather a subjective understanding of it.” A Service of EWTN News, Inc.

The five popes who have reigned since Vatican II all had different interpretations of the Council documents. Each has brought his own theological, liturgical, and political agenda to the See of Peter.

Inside the Vatican 15:41. The pope has spent much of his pontificate seeking to correct what he considers the misinterpretation of Vatican II, insisting that it wasn't a revolutionary break from ...

Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday marked the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council — the church meetings he attended as a young priest that brought the Catholic Church into the moder ...

Amato said such an approach is consistent with Benedict XVI’s call, in his Christmas 2005 address to the Roman Curia, for a “hermeneutic of continuity” in interpreting Vatican II.

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 ...