During the event, which opened Oct. 4 with a Mass presided over by Pope Francis ... Since then, many progressives have felt that Vatican II’s reforms have been muted or ignored and looked ...

Traditionalist Catholics have urged Pope Leo XIV to ease his predecessor's restrictions on the Latin Mass, insisting the move was based on misunderstandings and is hampering a Western Church revival.

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides ... the road" and not "in the labyrinths of our thoughts", and on the way "hear the cry of men". With a solemn Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis concluded the XVI ...

Catholics and even non-Catholics around the world have recently been imploring Pope Francis to refrain from implementing a rumored ban on the Tridentine Mass ... from pre-Vatican II readings ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Lawyers for a once-powerful cardinal accused Vatican prosecutors of being “prisoner to their completely shattered theory” on Wednesday in the latest round of closing ...

In the wars within Catholicism that followed the council, the conservatives interpreted Vatican II as a discrete and limited ... vernacular version of the Mass. For the liberals, though, these ...