For on this day the “Second Vatican Ecumenical Council,” which, in the terminology of Pope John XXIII (“Discourse on Pentecost,” 1960), has already been at work for years in its ...

There had been talk of an ecumenical council of the Catholic ... With an emphasis on grace and mercy, the Second Vatican Council was to not change the doctrine of the faith but to make it more ...

Sixty years ago this month, the Second Vatican Council brought together ... The correct interpretation of Catholic dogma or an ecumenical council must come from “within the fabric of faith ...

The Second Vatican Council gives formal notice to the world that the Roman Catholic Church is determined to play a full part in this ecumenical age. As for those Anglicans who like to think they ...

Abstracting from the words of Christ, decisions of the ecumenical councils and infallible ... Should such be its function, the Second Vatican Council will prove to be the incredible blessing ...

Pope Paul VI has set September 14 as the opening date for the fourth session of the second Vatican Ecumenical Council and has ordered that it will be the last session, the Vatican said today.

The Second Vatican Council, the great revolution ... Maybe not in the exact form it took, an ecumenical council summoning all the bishops from around the world, but in the sense that the church ...

The Second Vatican Council, which opened 60 years ago on ... The council fully inserted Catholicism into the ecumenical movement’s quest for Christian unity, even as it dramatically reconfigured ...