In light of this, the cardinal considered that 'the two extreme positions are so close, precisely because they do not ...

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Since it became independent in 1929, Vatican City has been the world’s smallest state. Every evening the gates close, leaving ...

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A traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him has ...

Ordained as a bishop by a traditionalist sect, he was excommunicated then reinstated by the Vatican, but was undone by his ...

Vatican II changed all that. One of the council’s first concerns was “the reform and promotion of the liturgy,” addressed in one of its first constitutions, “Sacrosanctum Concilium.” ...

As I look back, I am so glad I lived through the pre-Vatican II church at Holy Rosary Parish ... Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council. I was blessed to have Jesuit instructors ...

who formed the group in 1969 in opposition to the Second Vatican Council. Vatican II was the series of 1960s church meetings that modernized the Catholic Church by allowing Mass in the vernacular ...

Williamson in Toronto Credit: Ron Bull/Toronto Star via Getty Images In a statement released by the Vatican’s Ecclesia Dei commission (a body set up by Pope John Paul II to try to heal the rift ...