’Prisoners” is the word New York Times columnist Ross Douthat recently used to describe the Second Vatican Council, an assembly that 60 years ago brought thousands of bishops from around the world to ...

It's more urgent than ever to "work efficiently for the welfare of marriage and the family," the Pope says. And "the Church ...

My Coined Term, “Radical Catholic Reactionary”: Clarifications [10-5-17] Vatican II supposedly changed Catholic doctrine, hence that council is thought to be heterodox and heretical (radical Catholic ...

Sometimes the Second Vatican Council gets a weak defense: “Well, it was just a pastoral council, so why worry about it?” Michael Lofton, from Reason and Theology, asks whether this defense is true? Is ...

Pope John XXIII officially convened the Second Vatican Council on October 11, 1962—sixty years ago this month. Time really does fly when you’re having fun. Many Catholics consider Vatican II the ...

The Second Vatican Council, the great revolution in the life of the modern Catholic Church, opened 60 years ago this week in Rome. So much of that 1960s-era world has passed away, but the council is ...

Speaker: John Baldovin, S.J. How has the Vatican II liturgical reform changed the Church? Where are we now with the reform? What lies in the future? John Baldovin, S.J., Ph.D., Professor of Historical ...

My Coined Term, “Radical Catholic Reactionary”: Clarifications [10-5-17] Radical Catholic reactionaries believe that Vatican II was deliberately and perniciously ambiguous in its conscious teachings.

An undated photo shows prelates during the Council Hall in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican during the third session of the Second Vatican Council. Credit: OSV News photo/Ernst Herb, KNA On Jan. 7, ...

The Second Vatican Council was "not only meaningful, but necessary," retired Pope Benedict XVI said in a letter to a conference about his theological work at the Franciscan University of Steubenville.