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 ...

The Catholic Church started an ambitious effort 50 years ago to adapt to the modern world. Vatican II changed everything from the language used during worship, to the role of women within the ...

After Vatican II, Catholics worshiped in their own languages, rather than in Latin. By urging Catholics to become more biblically literate, the council inspired lay communities of spiritual ...

VATICAN CITY — The Second Vatican Council was one of the most important ecumenical councils in the history of the Catholic Church. Its intention, Blessed Pope John XXIII said at its opening ...

First Posted: 10/21/2012 FIFTY YEARS ago this month, the Roman Catholic Church embarked on a period of soul-searching that reverberated far beyond St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Pope John XXIII ...

To many observers, it was painfully clear that Vatican II — the 40th anniversary of whose opening we'll remember Oct. 11 — had not fulfilled all of its promise.

On Oct. 11, 1962, Pope John XXIII opened Vatican II, with a desire to let some fresh air into the Catholic Church. It was a revolution, especially for the nuns who were encouraged to go into the ...

The Second Vatican Council--better known as Vatican II (1962-65)--was a watershed event for the Catholic Church, and fifty years later many of its conclusions are still being analyzed and hotly ...

(RNS) — Conservatives, reading Vatican II's documents like biblical fundamentalists, miss what it meant to participants. (RNS) — With the passage of 60 years since the opening of the Second ...

After about five years, things eventually settled down; superiors were appointed who understood Vatican II. But the transition was tough. You felt like you were holding on to your vocation with ...

Shortly before the fourth session of Vatican II began in September 1965, the magazine published an essay by the Rev. Hans Küng, “And After the Council?” The subhead declared, “The spirit of ...

The Catholic Church started an ambitious effort 50 years ago to adapt to the modern world. Vatican II changed everything from the language used during worship, to the role of women within the ...