In that document, Pius XII ― in a manner that foreshadowed the Council Fathers at Vatican II ― wanted to help the Church to avoid viewing the liturgy as simply an accumulation of rites and ...

Is compromise possible that can respect both unity and diversity in the church? After the Second Vatican Council, the liturgy was translated from Latin into the vernacular so ordinary people could ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Catholic priests will now be able to celebrate Mass “for the care of creation” after the Vatican ...

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church still wrestles with change. Vatican II revitalized liturgy, opened up relationships with other religions, and drew lay people into ...

As the Church this month marks the 50th anniversary of Sacrosanctum Concilium, Vatican II’s constitution on "The Sacred Liturgy," it is clear that, significant as those initial changes were, it ...

The Mass was said in Latin for many centuries, until the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s called for the prayers and instructions of the Catholic Mass to be translated into the local vernacular.

As a result of Vatican II, the Catholic Church opened its windows onto the modern world, updated the liturgy, gave a larger role to laypeople, introduced the concept of religious freedom and ...

The Catholic Church must continue to work to ... to the 800 participants Aug. 24 was the longest and most systematic talk he has given as pope on the theme of the liturgy since Vatican II.

The Second Vatican Council, which opened 60 years ago on Oct. 11, 1962, was the most important Catholic event in half a millennium. Its achievements were many and notable; it was also followed by ...

Of the 17,000 Catholic parishes in the United States, 592 of them perform the Latin Mass — including at ... A new generation of Catholics discovers Latin Mass 60 years after Vatican II By ...

Vatican II. In the mid-20th century, ... Catholics were once forbidden from taking Communion – the bread and wine consecrated at the celebration of the Catholic ritual of the Mass ...