While the post-Vatican II Church was growing on paper, ... of homosexual marriages and his vocal opposition to abortion have made him unpopular with progressives seeking a more modern Church.

At the time Vatican II convened, there were few obvious threats, few violent complaints among its 560 million mem bers. Yet the church was scarcely facing up to the growing secularization of life ...

(RNS) — Conservatives, reading Vatican II's documents like biblical fundamentalists, miss what it meant to participants. (RNS) — With the passage of 60 years since the opening of the Second ...

“If we did not have that point of reform that was the Second Vatican Council, the Church today would be a small sect, unknown to most people,” Cardinal Hollerich said in an interview with the ...

“If we did not have that point of reform that was the Second Vatican Council, the Church today would be a small sect, unknown to most people,” Hollerich said in an interview with the Spanish ...

In the modern era, beginning with the 16th-century Reformation and escalating with the French Revolution and culminating with Vatican II, church leaders have struggled to adapt to life after ...

Mr. Weigel agreed: “Vatican II called the Church to be a communion of disciples in mission. Thus every Catholic is a missionary, with a baptismal responsibility to share the gift we have been ...

Pope Francis on Tuesday called for church unity during one of the most polarised periods in modern Catholic history, as he marked the 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council.

Oct. 11 marks the 60th anniversary of a monumental event in the history of the Catholic Church: the gathering in Rome of bishops from around the world for the start of the Second Vatican Council.

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