So could you give us - just as briefly as you can - a before and after? What were some of the major changes that Vatican II brought to the church? TOBIN: Before 1962, the Catholic Church was the ...

Its achievements were many and notable; it was also followed by ecclesiastical upheavals that continue to roil the Church today. After Vatican II, Catholics worshiped in their own languages ...

Among church elites, however, the major debates in the last 55 years have been over the interpretation of the documents of Vatican II. Conservatives stressed the council’s continuity with the ...

(Here is a photo of Congar at Vatican II ... the Church essentially consists in an increase of fidelity to her own calling,” an instinct visible throughout Congar’s work before and after ...

Inside the Roman Catholic Shrine and Parish Church of The Holy Innocents in Manhattan ... which was abolished some six decades ago by the Second Vatican Council, features a priest with his ...

Whatever changes the people had wanted from the 1962-65 Second Vatican Council were, it seemed, formless, silent, lost in the bustle of a busy church frozen in a medieval mind. Instead ...

(RNS) — My heart goes out to the seminarians who are going through the current trauma of change under Pope Francis, because I went through the same trauma after Vatican II. (RNS) — Sixty ...

Changes at Vatican II included dropping the requirement for Masses to be said in Latin, a greater emphasis on church community ... But then almost immediately after the council, he became wary ...

The Second Vatican Council ... of his theological work before, during and after Vatican II would “be helpful in the struggle for a right understanding of the church and the world in our time.” ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is the first pope to have been ordained to the priesthood after the Second Vatican Council. Unlike his two predecessors, St. John Paul II and retired Pope Benedict ...

The church declined everywhere in the developed world after Vatican II, under conservative and liberal ... post-1960s Catholicism became more inward-looking than before, more consumed with its ...

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, the relator general of the Synod on Synodality, has said that he is convinced that the Second Vatican Council “saved the Church.” “If we did not have that ...