Cardinal Roberto Tucci, a Jesuit who died on April 14, 2015, was one of the last witnesses to the great conciliar event that “updated” – to use a term dear to St. John XXIII – the Catholic Church, ...

Pope Leo XIV began a series of reflections on the Second Vatican Council at his first general audience of 2026 on Wednesday. The public audience, held indoors in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall due to low ...

Germain Grisez is one of America’s most respected Catholic philosophers. For 30 years, until 2009, he held the Most Rev. Harry J. Flynn Professor of Christian Ethics chair at Mount St. Mary’s ...

Pope Leo XIV has begun a new series of Wednesday general audiences devoted to the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) and its documents. The previous series, begun by Pope Francis and concluded by Pope ...

Pope John XXIII leads the opening session of the Second Vatican Council in St. Peter's Basilica on Oct. 11, 1962. (CNS) The ongoing Synod on Synodality has caused no small amount of discussion about ...

With the death on July 10 of Archbishop Emeritus Alphonsus Mathias of Bangalore (India), just a handful of fathers of Vatican II (1962-1965) are still alive. Almost 60 years after the close of the ...

CWN Editor's Note: Andrea Tornielli, editorial director of the Dicastery for Communication, published an editorial yesterday marking the 60th anniversary of the conclusion of the Second Vatican ...

The Second Vatican Council did not set out to produce a perfect Church. It sought to help the Church rediscover her deepest identity and speak the Gospel more convincingly to a changing world.

(ZENIT News / Rome, 11.04.2025).- The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has issued a sweeping doctrinal note titled Mater populi fidelis—“Mother of the Faithful People”—which seeks to ...