Pope Leo XIV has renewed his call for unity within the Catholic Church. He spoke to priests during a special Holy Year week in Rome and he urged them to promote reconciliation and act in communion ...

Unlike his two predecessors, St. John Paul II and retired Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis was not present in Rome for any of the sessions of the council, which met from 1962 to 1965.

What Vatican II Accomplished The Catholic Church’s historic council is misunderstood today by both progressives and nostalgic traditionalists. Its true message endures.

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.

Pope Leo XIV is kicking off a weeklong celebration of Catholic clergy for the Holy Year. He has encouraged seminarians to be joyful and honest at a special Jubilee meditation.

What I tried to emphasize there, with some nods to the work of the French historian Guillaume Cuchet, was that the problem with Vatican II probably wasn’t any given change, any specific ...