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

(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 ...

For millions of Catholics around the world, going to the Vatican is a spiritual experience unlike any other. However, for ...

So, if you want to prepare for the synodal process, reread the documents of Vatican II and reread Evangelii Gaudium. Vatican II was not a liberal council or a conservative council.

His many books include Vatican II: The Crisis and the Promise. The Documents of Vatican II There is no substitute for reading all 16 official documents of the Second Vatican Council.

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

No, for several reasons. First, in the Vatican II documents themselves, we received a wonder of theological richness promulgated with the full teaching authority of the church.

VATICAN CITY 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 ...

The memory of the Second Vatican Council, 40 years after the opening of the council, continues to arouse both acclamation and vilification. Its champions, in many cases, see it as having liberated ...

In the wars within Catholicism that followed the council, the conservatives interpreted Vatican II as a discrete and limited event — a particular set of documents that contained various shifts ...

BY JOHN L. ALLEN JR.New YorktDespite widespread suggestions in the press, and even last April from a Vatican cardinal, that Rome might be on the brink of allowing married couples to use condoms to ...

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 ...