“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 ...

Informed by their own experiences of Mass in various traditions and inflections ... Looking back to the pre-Vatican II world, there are many other traditions and practices that I would like ...

While today’s scholars tend to focus in their study of Vatican II on “what happened at the ... as “responding to controversy in the old pre-Council fashion by curtailing every liberty ...

Speaking from the Great Hall of the Robert F. Kennedy Building in Washington last week, Merrick Garland described criticism ...

The three-day “apostolic journey” of Pope Francis to Belgium has largely been an occasion for Belgian advocates to call on ...

The Pope is addressing a crowd of roughly half the population of one of the world's most Catholic nations — East Timor.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin in an interview with Vatican Media said Europe “greatly needs” to rediscover its Christian roots and face... Read more ...

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

The Vatican says some 600,000 people ... a seaside park Tuesday for Pope Francis’ final Mass, held on the same field where St. John Paul II prayed 35 years ago during the nation’s fight ...

Telling his fellow bishops not to fear offending him or others with their opinions is a departure from John Paul II who, contrary to the spirit of synodality, reasserted the church’s pre-Vatican II ...

Local authorities estimate that a crowd of 600,000 gathered for the pope’s Mass, the Vatican told reporters ... after Pope John Paul II in 1989, but it’s the first papal visit for the country ...