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

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

Reported Vatican leak undermines Pope Francis and inflames debate over Latin Mass - The leak, if confirmed, could place ...

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.” A Service of EWTN News, Inc.

(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 not a liberal council or a conservative council. It was an ecumenical council. It called for both reform and ressourcement , and it saw the two as inextricably linked.

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 ...

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.

Amato also said the documents “demonstrate how the congregation has interpreted Vatican II in the light of the grand preceding tradition,” in contrast with “instrumental uses of the council ...

A series of recently opened Vatican archives are shedding new light on the relationship between Pope Pius XII and Hitler as he led Nazi Germany during World War II. A new book takes a deeper look ...

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 ...