COMMENTARY: ‘Apostolicam Actuositatem’ manifests a profoundly renewed vision of the role of the laity in the Church’s saving ...

These modest efforts familiarized Catholics with "inculturation," a theme dear to Vatican II and taken up by (Pope John Paul II´s) apostolic exhortation "Ecclesia in Asia" (Church in Asia). The second ...

Dubbed "Paddy's Wigwam" by locals the Cathedral which was built between 1962-67, has now been granted Grade I listed status.

The elevation of Liverpool’s Catholic cathedral is acknowledgement at the highest level of Sir Frederick Gibberd’s radical ...

Francis hoped to restore unity to the celebration of the Roman rite while allowing occasional use of the pre-Vatican II Missal as a “pastoral concession”. How Leo steers between the hopes of ...

In 2023 remarks to Jesuits in Hungary, Pope Francis said stronger restrictions on use of the pre-Vatican II rite were necessary because of a state of "indietrismo" -- or "backwardness" -- caused ...

(Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – At one month ... something that was specifically underlined as a need by cardinals during pre-conclave meetings. During his very first greeting from ...

For example, there is much speculation about whether the new pope will live in the Vatican guesthouse where ... apostolic palace was raised during the pre-conclave general congregations not ...

Art, Faith, Sex and Controversy' investigates pop culture’s crypto-religious, uncanny symbols of immanence and transcendence.

The theme chosen for this inaugural conference ... Here he strongly rejects a decadent style of liturgy that set in soon after Vatican II. That style was contrived to be a deliberate break with ...

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