The first American pope arrives at the papal summer retreat to work on his encyclical, with suggestions it should avoid politics and focus on religious liberty and vocations.

Many sacred beliefs of our Catholic faith can be traced to the 21 ecumenical councils held since the fourth century.

Pope Leo XIV is heading to the papal summer residence for a six-week vacation. He's giving the hilltop town of Castel ...

The Vatican will mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Pope Saint John Paul II with a Mass in St Peter's Basilica on Wednesday 2 April at 15.00.

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 ...

Synod 2021-24 comes roughly 60 years after the Council, a historically significant distance, signaling that it is no longer possible to consider Vatican II as a current event, given how much the world ...

Those most enthusiastic about the Synod on Synodality that opens on Oct. 4 are wont to say that it’s the most important Catholic event since the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) — a claim ...

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In a way, maybe we are living all together as baptized Christians in the synodal process in the same way that the council fathers at Vatican II experienced collegiality in their role as bishops.

Pope Benedict XVI was a framer of the Second Vatican Council and a staunch defender of orthodoxy who clashed with both conservatives and progressives in the church.

(RNS) — Conservatives, reading Vatican II's documents like biblical fundamentalists, miss what it meant to participants.