St. Stephen Church in Sun Lakes, Arizona after the renovation. (Credit: Steven Schloeder.) Architect Steven Schloeder concurs, “The most dire consequence of post Vatican II architecture was in ...

However, as a new book on post-Vatican II church architecture shows, these buildings - often the most prominent and substantial in their immediate area - ought to be the subject of greater ...

Church architect Duncan Stroik ... that we’re repudiating all that has been done since Vatican II and going back to an earlier form of art and architecture, and the other is, as you say, that ...

when Vatican II was invoked to justify an ever-wider array of changes — to the church’s liturgy and calendar and prayers, to lay customs and clerical dress, to church architecture and sacred ...

‘”THE whole world expects a step forward,” said John : XXIII as he opened the Second Vatican Council in October 1962. When Pope Paul VI formally closed it last week, church.” he heralded ...

During the papacies of John Paul and Benedict, diocesan seminaries returned to the pre-Vatican II model of isolation from the world. They were again told the church had all the answers ...

The council established no new dogmas but attempted to update spiritual disciplines, aesthetics and styles of worship for the modern, globalized Church. "To me, the key to Benedict is Vatican II ...

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 ...