COMMENTARY: ‘Presbyterorum Ordinis’ manifests a keen awareness of the priest’s special identity and vital mission in the Church.

The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II attempts a Herculean task. Part reference book, part introduction to a complex historical subject, part analysis of a still ongoing reception of the conciliar ...

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Vatican II stripped the Church down to its skivvies. It allowed the Holy Spirit to clothe her in garments more suitable to our new liberal, democratic order.

Those popes, along with Pope Saint Paul VI, who succeeded John XXIII in the middle of Vatican II’s tenure, “all made it quite clear that Vatican II must be interpreted in light of, and as an ...

Roman Catholic Pope Benedict's vision of Catholicism, Vatican II, and the future of the Church endure through his teachings Pope Benedict's writings and teachings have influenced generations of ...

Leaked documents claim to present results of a worldwide consultation of bishops on restricting pre-Vatican II Latin Mass ...

Some 60 years after Vatican II, we can say that, to paraphrase what G. K. Chesterton said of Christianity, it is not that the reform has been tried and failed so much as it has not been thoroughly ...

While today’s scholars tend to focus in their study of Vatican II on “what happened at the council” or on how the implementation of the council’s decrees played out, a less developed but ...

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 ...