The book Christ, Church, Mankind notes John Paul’s ardent passion for Jesus Christ and his efforts to spread that passion as part of the vision of Vatican II. Based on a 2008 international ...

The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II attempts a Herculean task. Part reference book, part introduction to a complex historical subject, part analysis of a still ongoing reception of the conciliar ...

two Catholic commentators offer thoughts on the trove of books available on Vatican II. A procession of Cardinals enters St. Peter's in Rome, opening the Second Vatican Council. (photo ...

America is proud to republish a classic work of the Council as an e-book. The Documents of Vatican II, edited by Walter Abbott, S.J., and with comments from Protestant and Orthodox authorities ...

Mr. Douthat contends that Vatican II incited a never-ending struggle among the faithful. Vatican II created “intractable-seeming divisions” that leave “contemporary Catholicism facing a set ...

In that sense, Galeazzi’s book helps American readers make sense of another seeming paradox about Francis: He claims to be a man of Vatican II, yet he’s not adopted the ecclesiastical reform ...

The last chapter takes up a question that guided the second part of the book: Did the Second Vatican Council fail? Bullivant recognizes that it is possible that the changes of Vatican II actually ...

In his famous interview with Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro in August 2013, he said, “Vatican II was a re-reading of ... Sign of the Times,” a book by Cardinal Michael Czerny and Father ...

Father Tanner, author of a new book, Vatican II: The Essential Texts, said the Council had something "serious to say on a huge range of issues" that impact ordinary Christians and others.