However, as a new book on post-Vatican II church architecture shows, these buildings - often the most prominent and substantial in their immediate area - ought to be the subject of greater ...

St. Stephen Church in Sun Lakes, Arizona after the renovation. (Credit: Steven Schloeder.) Architect Steven Schloeder concurs, “The most dire consequence of post Vatican II architecture was in ...

Church architect Duncan Stroik ... that we’re repudiating all that has been done since Vatican II and going back to an earlier form of art and architecture, and the other is, as you say, that ...

Yet church architecture always raises the question ... And what does a post-Vatican II Catholic church look like if the answer is “both” or a variant of “all of the above”?

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 ...

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 ...