Many sacred beliefs of our Catholic faith can be traced to the 21 ecumenical councils held since the fourth century.

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 ...

(Credit: Remo Casilli/Reuters via CNS.) Listen ROME — The Second Vatican Council was of great interest to the Orthodox world, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople wrote in an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prisoners” is the word New York Times columnist Ross Douthat recently used to describe the Second Vatican Council ... the work of the mid-’60s ecumenical council offers a remedy for what ...