Its achievements were many and notable; it was also followed by ecclesiastical upheavals that continue to roil the Church today. After Vatican II, Catholics worshiped in their own languages ...

For many Catholics, after sixty years, there is no “before and after Vatican II,” there is only the Church of the post-conciliar era. For Millennials and younger there is not even a Church of ...

Among church elites, however, the major debates in the last 55 years have been over the interpretation of the documents of Vatican II. Conservatives stressed the council’s continuity with the ...

Changes at Vatican II included dropping the requirement for Masses to be said in Latin, a greater emphasis on church community ... But then almost immediately after the council, he became wary ...

(RNS) — My heart goes out to the seminarians who are going through the current trauma of change under Pope Francis, because I went through the same trauma after Vatican II. (RNS) — Sixty ...

On this score, all that has happened is that Vatican II has raised hopes for unity where there were none before ... At the Reformation and after, the church reacted badly to the loss of its ...

First, we should not expect the journey of the church after the Synod on Synodality ... council’s progress. Shortly before the fourth session of Vatican II began in September 1965, the magazine ...

The church declined everywhere in the developed world after Vatican II, under conservative and liberal ... post-1960s Catholicism became more inward-looking than before, more consumed with its ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is the first pope to have been ordained to the priesthood after the Second Vatican Council. Unlike his two predecessors, St. John Paul II and retired Pope Benedict ...

Inside Vatican City, the home of Pope Leo, lies a vast collection of Indigenous artifacts and cultural objects that some ...