One of the most important events in the modern history of the Catholic Church will soon reach a historical milestone. Dec. 8 ...
COMMENTARY: The early history of the landmark document manifests the significant doctrinal development, which led the ...
Some of the most resonant and memorable phrases of Vatican II come from “Lumen Gentium,” including the description of the ...
The Second Vatican Council’s central purpose was evangelization. All of its reforms, whether about liturgy, ecumenism and interreligious dialogue, or education, were all ordered toward one goal: to ...
Dei Verbum” doesn’t usually get the press of the more famous documents of Vatican II, but it had a profound effect on the way ...
In his acceptance speech for the honorary doctorate awarded him by the Catholic University of Valencia, Cardinal Kurt Koch rejected the extreme positions of progressives and traditionalists regarding ...
An economics paper published last month on religious service attendance trends in 66 countries concluded that the implementation of reforms associated with the Second Vatican Council likely ...
In the United States, Catholics kneel during the Eucharistic prayer while Catholics in the rest of the world stand. Many European churches, especially the older ones, do not even have kneelers. After ...
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who was informed of his excommunication on Friday, has long been a vocal critic of Pope Francis. By Emma Bubola and Elisabetta Povoledo Emma Bubola reported from Rome, ...