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.

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

More than 50 years after its occurrence, Vatican II continues to defy the understanding and appreciation of many people. In fact, it is attacked by two opposite sides, from what we may call as the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In April, the Vatican accused the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), the umbrella group that represents the majority of American nuns, of "doctrinal confusion." As LCWR leaders meet this ...

"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 ...

Xavière Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart, undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops, attends a news conference to present an update on the synod process at the Vatican Aug. 26, 2022. Sister ...