The Second Vatican Council, the great revolution in the life of the modern Catholic Church ... II, to rein in the more radical experiments and alterations, to prove that Catholicism before ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died on Saturday, left behind an extensive body of work examining and diagnosing ills in the Catholic ... Church. "To me, the key to Benedict is Vatican II ...

During the papacies of John Paul and Benedict, diocesan seminaries returned to the pre-Vatican II model of isolation from the world. They were again told the church had all the answers ...

His headline says all Catholics are "prisoners of Vatican II". Douthat says that like it or not, the Council was necessary. The structures and mindset of the Catholic Church needed updating ...

Popes have led the Catholic Church for centuries before Pope Francis took office. There have been 266 popes in the Catholic Church, according to the Vatican ... Pope John Paul II, who served ...

VATICAN CITY — In their pre-conclave sessions ... battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis sought to drag the church out of the bedroom, de ...

Before Pope Francis, Pope Benedict XVI was the leader of the Catholic Church. Benedict ... his immediate predecessors—Popes Benedict, John Paul II, and Paul VI—were much more defensive ...

“If the Roman Catholic Church had looked 450 years ... On this score, all that has happened is that Vatican II has raised hopes for unity where there were none before. The council’s work ...