Yet 50 years is time enough for unintended consequences to emerge. The post- Vatican II Catholic Church must deal with issues that the Council skirted, issues that one day could affect who ...

While there, he gave a series of lectures about the struggles he believed that the Church would face in the coming decades. While the post-Vatican II Church was growing on paper, he speculated ...

Believing that the post-Vatican II church was in chaos, John Paul pushed for stability. Further change was not going to happen under his watch. He brought Joseph Ratzinger, later Benedict XVI ...

The post-Vatican II worldview did not so much bridge the chasm as sidestep it, by reframing the issue. Drawing upon the council’s “Dogmatic Constitution on the Church” (“Lumen Gentium ...

For Catholics too young to remember the immediate post-conciliar period, the 60th anniversary of Vatican II offers a chance to relive the past. The Church is going backwards. There is a wide ...

And if anything post-1960s Catholicism became ... morning about being a child amidst the church's "silly season." The 60th anniversary of Vatican 2 pieces are flooding the usual sites, and ...

It’s that the church is in competition with a million other urgent-seeming things, and in its post-Vatican II form it has often failed to establish the importance of its own rituals and obligations.

I will deal with the impact of Vatican II during two periods, before and after 1975, mainly on the Church and on men and women Religious in the south. It is certain that Vatican II has renewed and ...

“Well, this wasn’t it.” Vatican II was the council convened in 1962 to modernize the church for an increasingly secular world. It ordered epochal revisions — changing the language of the ...

Inside the Roman Catholic Shrine and Parish Church of ... by the Second Vatican Council, features a priest with his back turned away from the congregation. Stephen Yang for NY Post Dating back ...

Cloutier said the document is a “powerful statement” of the characteristic social principle of the post Vatican II Church, noting how it doesn’t belong to any one particular papacy.