Pope Benedict XVI was a framer of the Second Vatican Council and a staunch defender of orthodoxy who clashed with both conservatives and progressives in the church.

At the time Vatican II convened, there were few obvious threats, few violent complaints among its 560 million mem bers. Yet the church was scarcely facing up to the growing secularization of life ...

When asked about resistance to the Second Vatican Council, Cardinal Hollerich replied that “the strongest comes from the traditionalists, who curiously are also a postmodern phenomenon.” ...

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.

(RNS) — Conservatives, reading Vatican II's documents like biblical fundamentalists, miss what it meant to participants.

But I also think they can and should be fully integrated into a post-Vatican II understanding of the church and the individual. First, the reality of sin is both personal and social.

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill explores the tradition behind having multiple worship services, going all the way back to Vatican II.

Editor's Note: This article is part of the Register’s symposium on Vatican II at 60. The Latin title of the Second Vatican Council’s pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world ...

In the modern era, beginning with the 16th-century Reformation and escalating with the French Revolution and culminating with Vatican II, church leaders have struggled to adapt to life after ...

The Vatican has answered the prayers of many in Western New York, as ten churches that had been ordered to close by the Buffalo Diocese will remain open while the Vatican conducts reviews.

The Second Vatican Council, the great revolution in the life of the modern Catholic Church, opened 60 years ago this week in Rome. So much of that 1960s-era world has passed away, but the council ...

When asked about resistance to the Second Vatican Council, Hollerich replied that “the strongest comes from the traditionalists, who curiously are also a postmodern phenomenon.” ...