Horror movies changed dramatically after World War II, and here is why the change happened and what it meant to the horror ...

The Second Vatican Council, the great revolution in the life of the modern Catholic Church, opened 60 years ago this week in Rome. So much of that 1960s-era world has passed away, but the council ...

Faced with this level of confusion, concern and contention over Vatican II at its 60-year mark, it can be tempting to view the Council itself as the source of our problems.

Editor's Note: This article is part of the Register’s symposium on Vatican II at 60. In the view of Joseph Ratzinger, Gaudium et Spes’ three paragraphs on atheism “may be counted among the ...

Pope John XXIII officially convened the Second Vatican Council on October 11, 1962—sixty years ago this month. Time really does fly when you’re having fun. Many Catholics consider Vatican II ...

The plot avoids leaving viewers with questions, as many horror films do. Taissa Farmiga as Sister Irene and Katelyn Rose Downey as Sophie deliver some of the best performances within the Conjuring ...

The image above is of the cathedral of Köln after World War II bombing devastated most of that German city. It's why the Second Vatican Council was necessary -- and why it might have been doomed ...

On Oct. 28, 1958, Cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, a rotund jolly Italian was elected to succeed the recently deceased Pope Pius XII.

After Vatican II, Catholics worshiped in their own languages, rather than in Latin. By urging Catholics to become more biblically literate, the council inspired lay communities of spiritual ...

Next year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and it's no surprise networks and distributors are gathering the troops to commemorate. With war spreading in the Middle East and ...

Pope John Paul II, seated, signs the new Roman Catholic code of canon law during a ceremony at the Vatican with former West German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, center, and Venezuelan Archbishop ...