Father Guy Marie Nguyen Hong Giao, 65, notes that socio-political factors conditioned the various ways Vietnamese Catholics welcomed and applied the teachings of Vatican Council II, first in a war ...

MANILA – Behind the Vatican’s unyielding walls ... American internet personality and comedian Rob Anderson’s clip dubbed the conclave the “Pope Games”, describing it as a “Sistine ...

editorials and even choices of art and cover material) envisioned the post-Vatican II landscape. In the June 19, 1964, issue of Commonweal, for example, the former Commonweal executive editor John ...

Attention Catholic artists: The Vatican has announced an art competition in which your paintings ... as well as a second sketch in a clip frame of another Station of the Cross freely chosen ...

was a framer of the Second Vatican Council (also known as Vatican II), which began in 1962 and ended in 1965. The council established no new dogmas but attempted to update spiritual disciplines ...

(RNS) — Conservatives, reading Vatican II's documents like biblical fundamentalists, miss what it meant to participants. (RNS) — With the passage of 60 years since the opening of the Second ...

ANALYSIS: Sixty years after its opening, the meaning of the Second Vatican Council is still contested, as interpretations sidelined by John Paul II and Benedict XVI experience a revival under Francis.

Perhaps no article received as much attention as Ross Douthat’s “How Catholics Became Prisoners of Vatican II” in The New York Times. In it, he makes three claims: The council was necessary ...

Editor's Note: This article is part of the Register’s symposium on Vatican II at 60. In the world of academia one can still find scholars working on the Wirkungsgeschichte (history of how texts ...

In the wars within Catholicism that followed the council, the conservatives interpreted Vatican II as a discrete and limited event — a particular set of documents that contained various shifts ...

After Vatican II, Catholics worshiped in their own languages, rather than in Latin. By urging Catholics to become more biblically literate, the council inspired lay communities of spiritual ...