Leaked documents claim to present results of a worldwide consultation of bishops on restricting pre-Vatican II Latin Mass ...

The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV's pontificate ...

The debate surrounding the traditional Latin Mass within the Catholic Church has intensified significantly in the early days ...

What Vatican II Accomplished ... The Second Vatican Council, which opened 60 years ago on Oct. 11, 1962, was the most important Catholic event in half a millennium.

For those wishing to understand the council, there is no better place to start than “What Happened at Vatican II,” by the Jesuit historian the Rev. John W. O’Malley.

ANALYSIS: Sixty years after its opening, the meaning of the Second Vatican Council is still contested, as interpretations sidelined by John Paul II and Benedict XVI experience a revival under Francis.

Vatican II was strikingly different from the 20 other ecclesiastical assemblies that Roman Catholicism ranks as ecumenical. It is the first council that did not face, or leave in its wake, heresy ...

But the drafts that blew into and out of that open “window” are still felt today, 60 years after that the council, popularly known as Vatican II, commenced.

As Pope John XXIII said in his speech at the opening of the council on October 11, 1962, “by bringing herself up to date where required, and by the wise organization of mutual cooperation, the ...

A Franciscan priest in Vietnam says the Second Vatican Council spurred a deep renewal of the local Catholic Church that spanned years of division and war. The Vietnam War lasted almost 20 years until ...

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 ...

Thanks to these 23 “mothers of the council,” Vatican II’s teachings on women are, for the most part, incorporated into its larger treatment of human dignity, not segregated into separate ...