As Pope Francis likes to say, reality is more important than ideas, so examining legitimate diversity among the churches will ...

Francis said he was restricting use of the Latin Mass out of concern that those who favor it also reject Vatican II, according to the Associated Press. Vatican II made a number of sweeping changes ...

A Vatican spokesman said the Holy See had received the 6 million figure officially from local authorities and it had ...

Pope Francis presided over an open-air mass in Brussels on Sunday, capping a three-day visit to Belgium that grappled with ...

Tasitolu: The Vatican says some 600,000 people have attended Pope Francis' Mass in East Timor, or nearly half the country's ...

Chemist, author, and Roman Catholic theologian Michelle Francl-Donnay writes that it takes “a gritty grace” to embrace hope ...

Then came Vatican II (1962-1965). The council recommended a warm and fervent ... In many places, Marian devotions (novena services or the rosary) were replaced by an evening Mass (a practice which ...

After Vatican II, however, the more individually oriented ... on the details of eternal punishment. With the advent of mass media creating widespread exposure to the atrocities of war, people ...

now known as Mass in “the ordinary form,” in a manner conducive to beauty and more in keeping with both tradition and the mind of Vatican II. This trend is more notable in the United States ...

“The Way Forward: Pope Francis, Vatican II, and Synodality,” which took place March 3-4, brought together 80 participants—including cardinals, bishops, and other Catholic Church leaders, as well as ...

Following Vatican II’s “Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy ... or sing around a campfire does not convey the sense of the Mass as something distinct, transcendent and sacred as effectively ...