COMMENTARY: In the fifth chapter of the dogmatic constitution, the Church solemnly proclaimed, for the first time, that all ...

“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 ...

Then came Vatican II (1962-1965). The council recommended a warm and fervent devotion to Mary, but no reference was made to the rosary, nor to any Marian devotion, or apparition. (No specific Marian ...

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 ...

This essay proposes that the ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council is best characterized as a “communion-in-mission.” A first section shows that the council was a “missionary council” from start ...

Here are the controversies, contestants, and non-Catholic observers involved as the historic Ecumenical Council resumes for the fourth and final session September 14 Vatican Council II resumes in ...

The Catholic Louvain University, the Francophone campus of Belgium’s storied Catholic university, issued a scathing statement ...

Among the parade of priests and nuns who stroll in and around Vatican City, there is a special breed of journalist who is ...

The Vatican has approved Marian devotion at Medjugorje without pronouncing on the authenticity of alleged apparitions, ...

The Catholic University of Louvain, the Francophone campus of Belgium's storied Catholic university, issued a scathing ...

They offer a sort of a summary of the state of play for Catholics ... meet the modern world on its own terms. That "Vatican II generation" included Biden and millions of other Catholics.