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 ...

The Second Vatican Council--better known as Vatican II (1962-65)--was a watershed event for the Catholic Church, and fifty years later many of its conclusions are still being analyzed and hotly ...

Catholic conflicts on marriage continue, even decades after Vatican II (The Conversation) — Catholics disagree over how to adapt the church’s doctrine and practices, especially marriage, to ...

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 ...

The Catholic Church started an ambitious effort 50 years ago to adapt to the modern world. Vatican II changed everything from the language used during worship, to the role of women within the ...

First Posted: 10/21/2012 FIFTY YEARS ago this month, the Roman Catholic Church embarked on a period of soul-searching that reverberated far beyond St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Pope John XXIII ...

What Vatican II Accomplished The Catholic Church’s historic council is misunderstood today by both progressives and nostalgic traditionalists. Its true message endures.

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 ...

A small c catholic: Despite not being Catholic, Bill Tammeus remembers fondly the days of Vatican II, but thinks today there's a retrenchment of its hope.

In 2015, marking the 50th anniversary of the restoration of the synods for the universal church, Pope Francis called them “one of the most precious legacies of the Second Vatican Council.” ...

Sixty years ago, about a month after I entered the Jesuit novitiate in Los Gatos, California, the Second Vatican Council opened in Rome. No one bothered to tell the novices about it.

The past 60 years have been a period of change and reflection for many in the Catholic Church, initiated by the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s and continued by the current synod on synodality.