The ecumenism inspired by Vatican II offers a powerful sign of Christ’s presence, here and now, in the midst of the shadows left by human weakness and sin, ...

COMMENTARY on the 50th anniversary of Vatican II’s Unitatis Redintegratio. For most of the history of the Church, there really was no ecumenism, in the strict sense of the word.

As the golden anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s opening on Oct. 11, 1962, approaches, men ordained in the years bookending the council predominantly embrace “the spirit of Vatican II ...

And it is not without significance that of the documents of Vatican II, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church preceded the Decree on Ecumenism (and, probably, that these two documents were ...

If the top post-Vatican II question was how Catholicism can be reformed to make space for a positive view of others, the question more likely to drive the 21st century is how other religions, and ...

Pope John XXIII’s Second Vatican Council, now remembered as “Vatican II,” began Oct. 11, 1962, with pomp and ceremony. ... which is the serious ecumenism of the future.

The long-awaited, triple-barreled question of Catholic-Protestant, Catholic-Orthodox and Catholic-Jewish relations finally reached the floor of the Vatican Council on November 18. At the close of ...

In Dominus Iesus the C.D.F. has followed Vatican II in recognizing that outside the Catholic Church there are not only elements of the church, but Christian communities that are used by the Holy ...

c. 2004 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ On Nov. 21, 1965, bishops attending the Second Vatican Council voted 2,137 to 11 to commit the Catholic ...