For those wishing to understand the council, there is no better place to start than “What Happened at Vatican II,” by the Jesuit historian the Rev. John W. O’Malley.

What Vatican II Accomplished ... The Second Vatican Council, which opened 60 years ago on Oct. 11, 1962, was the most important Catholic event in half a millennium.

COMMENTARY: ‘Apostolicam Actuositatem’ manifests a profoundly renewed vision of the role of the laity in the Church’s saving ...

Vatican II was strikingly different from the 20 other ecclesiastical assemblies that Roman Catholicism ranks as ecumenical. It is the first council that did not face, or leave in its wake, heresy ...

Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council on this day in 1962. ... He is best known for convening the Second Vatican Council, also known as Vatican II, in 1962.

As Pope John XXIII said in his speech at the opening of the council on October 11, 1962, “by bringing herself up to date where required, and by the wise organization of mutual cooperation, the ...

But this point does not vindicate the council, let alone the ever-evolving liberal interpretation of its spirit. The church has to live with Vatican II, wrestle with it, somehow resolve the ...

A Franciscan priest in Vietnam says the Second Vatican Council spurred a deep renewal of the local Catholic Church that spanned years of division and war. The Vietnam War lasted almost 20 years until ...

On one of the closing days of Vatican Council II, in St. Peter's, a joint declaration by the Pope and the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, … ...

Thanks to these 23 “mothers of the council,” Vatican II’s teachings on women are, for the most part, incorporated into its larger treatment of human dignity, not segregated into separate ...