While there, he gave a series of lectures about the struggles he believed that the Church would face in the coming decades. While the post-Vatican II Church was growing on paper, he speculated ...

Yet 50 years is time enough for unintended consequences to emerge. The post- Vatican II Catholic Church must deal with issues that the Council skirted, issues that one day could affect who ...

Up through the 1980s, self-identified liberals routinely spoke of the “pre-Vatican II Church” and the “post-Vatican II Church,” almost as though they were two churches, with the clear implication that ...

Believing that the post-Vatican II church was in chaos, John Paul pushed for stability. Further change was not going to happen under his watch. He brought Joseph Ratzinger, later Benedict XVI ...

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 ...

For Catholics too young to remember the immediate post-conciliar period, the 60th anniversary of Vatican II offers a chance to relive the past. The Church is going backwards. There is a wide ...

Yves Chiron chronicles the influential liturgist’s life, showing the power struggles behind the Second Vatican Council and ... From that post, he was able to manage the reformation of the ...

The post-Vatican II worldview did not so much bridge the chasm as sidestep it, by reframing the issue. Drawing upon the council’s “Dogmatic Constitution on the Church” (“Lumen Gentium ...

The man charged with the murder had written critically of the post–Vatican II Church, but the motive for the shooting remains unknown. The Latin Mass attendees I spoke with say their ...

And if anything post-1960s Catholicism became ... morning about being a child amidst the church's "silly season." The 60th anniversary of Vatican 2 pieces are flooding the usual sites, and ...

It’s that the church is in competition with a million other urgent-seeming things, and in its post-Vatican II form it has often failed to establish the importance of its own rituals and obligations.