Vatican II offered nothing less than an utterly new dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the modern world. [MORE: Buy the LIFE book, Pope Francis The Vicar of Christ, From Saint Peter to ...

While the post-Vatican II Church was growing on paper ... have made him unpopular with progressives seeking a more modern Church. Similar to Benedict, Pope Francis has not been afraid to pick ...

In October 1962 the Second Vatican Council opened the doors of an isolated, ancient Roman Catholic Church to the modern world ... grew up in the post Vatican II years when lay people had to ...

Up through the 1980s, self-identified liberals routinely spoke of the “pre-Vatican II Church” and the “post-Vatican II Church,” almost ... and also one trend of modern theology. On the other, there is ...

I watched a live video feed as flames engulfed the lead-and-wood roof of the church. As Notre-Dame ... into something much more pedestrian. Vatican II might seem worlds away from discussion ...

When Pope Paul VI formally closed it last week, church ... modern times and bringing it into closer contact with all men — Catholic or not, Christian or not, religious or not. Vatican II ...

In his new work, Mass Exodus: Catholic disaffiliation in Britain and America since Vatican II (OUP), Dr Bullivant identifies ... of the danger of parodying the pre- and post-Council experiences of ...

Nevertheless, some important points need to be stressed in our evaluation of the life of the post-Vatican II Church ... stressed the meaninglessness of modern existence, and this entered the ...

The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et spes ... of “triumphalism” in a famous intervention at Vatican II by the late Bishop Emile Jozef De Smedt of Bruges ...

However, as a new book on post-Vatican II church architecture shows ... when the three award-winning designs "unashamedly modern in concept, design and construction, using modern materials ...

The first and most basic ecclesiological principle at Vatican II is that the Church is a mys-tery ... He continued: “Modern men and women listen more willingly to witnesses than to teachers ...

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 ...