COMMENTARY: Now is the time to once again return to the actual conciliar texts, and those of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, in order to expose the capitulation to the spirit of the age.

“Vatican II happened 50 years ago, but it surely doesn’t belong to the past, its light still leads the Church through the darkness of her journey today,” Cardinal Zen said in the July 17 ...

Spirit of Vatican II is still unfolding: Pope gives women a vote (Guest Opinion by Rev. Patrick Rogers) Published: May. 17, 2023, 8:30 a.m.

We have a Vatican II president. Barack Obama, I am sure, does not think of himself in those terms, but when I heard his speech at Grant Park in Chicago the night he was elected, and more recently ...

Author: Spirit of Vatican II still upheld by laity. Staff Writer. Austin American-Statesman. On our drives to and from Mass when I was a kid, my dad would recount his days as an altar boy in Gary, ...

The Vatican brought American and European bishops together to talk out their differences, and Pope John Paul II settled the deterrence issue with a message to the United Nations in 1982; he argued ...

"That the mission insight of Vatican II from John XXIII and Pope Paul VI in a way was happening to us, we who were not able to participate in Vatican II, but we had a slice of it -- some sort of a ...

What "the spirit of Vatican II" means for Catholics today may come into focus over the next few weeks. NCR will mark 10 years with Pope Francis and his leadership through reports, ...

Instead of invoking the vacuous ‘spirit of Vatican II,’ he should read its 16 official documents. And good Pope John XXIII himself, in his opening address to the council on Oct. 11, ...

She entered religious life 50 years ago, just before Vatican II got underway, and said the spirit of the three-year Vatican summit had a profound impact on how she viewed her calling.

The Spirit of Vatican II, by Colleen McDannell reviewed by Lawrence S. Cunningham in the May 17, 2011 issue Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Email to a friend Print ...

But this point does not vindicate the council, let alone the ever-evolving liberal interpretation of its spirit. The church has to live with Vatican II, wrestle with it, somehow resolve the ...