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

Pope Leo XIV arrived in the papal summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo on Sunday to start a six-week vacation , giving the ...

Leaked documents claim to present results of a worldwide consultation of bishops on restricting pre-Vatican II Latin Mass ...

In the Vatican II documents, the term “apostolate” refers to the Church’s mission, which for lay people largely revolves around their “secular” lives at work, in the family and in the community. On ...

George Weigel’s new book, 'To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II,' is a defense of the council against those who think it created a rupture with tradition (for better or for worse).

Pope Benedict XVI was a framer of the Second Vatican Council and a staunch defender of orthodoxy who clashed with both conservatives and progressives in the church.

(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 ...

Vatican II was an attempt to renew the church in the midst of global changes. AP Photo One important theme connecting all of the council’s documents was inculturation, a more open dialogue with ...

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.

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.

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.