Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church still wrestles with change. Vatican II revitalized liturgy, opened up relationships with other religions, and drew lay people into ...

ROME — The Second Vatican Council had something to say about the Catholic identity in Catholic colleges and universities — long before Pope John Paul II reaffirmed the teaching in his 1990 ...

The Second Vatican Council was designed to assess the church’s role in a rapidly changing world In a massive display of solemn ecclesiastical pomp, hundreds upon hundreds of elaborately robed ...

RELATED: Change is not easy in the Catholic Church, whether Vatican II or Pope Francis Not many Catholics are on the far right. Those who want to return to the Latin Mass are few but vocal.

For nearly 100 years, the Catholic Church operated under the guidelines of the First Vatican Council of 1870. In the early 1960s, Pope John XXIII created Vatican II in an effort to modernize the ...

Change is not easy in the Catholic Church, whether Vatican II or Pope ... I found a discarded copy of U.S. News & World Report and read it from cover to cover before I realized it was a year ...

To many observers, it was painfully clear that Vatican II — the 40th anniversary of whose opening we'll remember Oct. 11 — had not fulfilled all of its promise.

Roman Catholic Pope Benedict's vision of Catholicism, Vatican II, and the future of the Church endure through his teachings Pope Benedict's writings and teachings have influenced generations of ...

Few attend Latin Masses celebrated as they were before Vatican II, the 1962-65 conference that made radical changes in the Catholic Church. But one Lafayette Square church rejects the changes set ...

Regarding Father Edward T. Oakes's review of Father John W. O'Malley's book on the Second Vatican Council ("Chronicle of a Council," Dec. 26): It is not a stretch to assert that the Catholic ...

"I see certain people in Rome, in the Vatican, who want retrenchment, who want to go back to the church the way it was before the Second Vatican Council, when the church was essentially the hierarchy, ...