In this picture made available by the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful after the Urbi and Orbi blessing at the end of the Easter Mass in St. Peter's ...

The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, or Vatican II, was the twenty-first Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church. It opened under Pope John XXIII on 11 October 1962 and closed under ...

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 ...

Second Vatican Council brought Catholic Church into modern world ... 1962," Benedict wrote in a forward to a commemorative book about the anniversary published this week by the Vatican newspaper.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is commemorating the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, the landmark meetings that brought the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church into the modern ...

The class reconvened in Chicago in September, 52 years after they were ordained on a chilly December day in St. Peter's Basilica, 10 days after the close of the Second Vatican Council. Only 20 ...

The major documents of the Second Vatican Council are an excellent way to grasp the event. Here’s how John Paul II’s Feb. 27, 2000, address summarizes them: ...

The Vatican’s message on Monday said the “synodal process currently underway is also within the Council’s wake.” In October 2021, the Catholic Church began the first phase of a global two ...

Before John Paul II became pope, he wrote a book, The Sources of Renewal, on the proper understanding of Vatican II.According to him, this question is the key to understanding the Council. Chapter ...