“If we did not have that point of reform that was the Second Vatican Council, the Church today would be a small sect, unknown to ... he believes that if Vatican II had not taken place the ...

Cover to 'The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II' (Courtesy of Oxford University Press) The first section of the book looks at the context and the sources of the Second Vatican Council itself ...

Jews are “enemies of the Church,” the head of a radical Catholic sect said in Canada ... support of reforming Second Vatican Council “shows that Vatican II is their thing, not the Church ...

In this section, most questions are essentially practical ... "This has nothing to do with Vatican II." EWTN's Raymond Arroyo last week featured an "encore presentation" from earlier in the ...

At Vatican II, the church rejected centuries of Christian antisemitism. The church’s historically antisemitic theology — often referred to as the “teachings of contempt” — included the ...

Vatican II is distinctively something in the past, a blip on the Church’s timeline with little significance today. They regard academic debates about this or that section of a Conciliar document ...

“Oh,” he said, “but you know the church got rid of that after Vatican II?” I didn’t really argue ... the church today would be a small sect, unknown to most people.” ...

Pope Benedict XVI has been working to bring the group back under Rome's wing, fearing the spread of a parallel, pre-Vatican II church. The fear is not unfounded: The society, which is based in ...