middle-class Catholics were moving to neighborhoods no longer designated by the name of the parish church, a movement resulting as much due to the GI Bill as anything said at Vatican II.

when Vatican II was invoked to justify an ever-wider array of changes — to the church’s liturgy and calendar and prayers, to lay customs and clerical dress, to church architecture and sacred ...

The question facing the conclave is whether the cardinals want to continue in the direction set by Pope Francis.

John XXIII’s intention in summoning Vatican II was to rekindle the Church’s Christocentric ... combined both approaches to sketch the architecture of the Christian moral life and its pastoral ...

‘”THE whole world expects a step forward,” said John : XXIII as he opened the Second Vatican Council in October 1962. When Pope Paul VI formally closed it last week, church.” he heralded ...

The council established no new dogmas but attempted to update spiritual disciplines, aesthetics and styles of worship for the modern, globalized Church. "To me, the key to Benedict is Vatican II ...

more about the church than about Christ, more about the pope than about God’s word.” In his famous interview with Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro in August 2013, he said, “Vatican II was a re ...

During the papacies of John Paul and Benedict, diocesan seminaries returned to the pre-Vatican II model of isolation from the world. They were again told the church had all the answers ...

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 ...

From the Great Papal Schism and the Reformation to Vatican Council II and its significance in history, this course explores the events, people, and themes that shaped the Church from the 1300s to the ...