Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died on Saturday, left behind an extensive body of work examining and diagnosing ills in the Catholic Church. A theological and spiritual giant to many, Benedict's ...

Michael Sean Winters hopes that all Catholics will take a moment and hear what Pope Leo is highlighting for us. These short ...

When Pope John XXIII announced the creation of the Second Vatican Council (also known as Vatican II) in January 1959, it shocked the world. There hadn't been an ecumenical council — an assembly of ...

"Vatican II did not drop out of the sky," writes Michael Sean Winters. "There were three essential precursors to St. John XXIII's decision in 1959 to announce he was calling an ecumenical council." ...

EDITORIAL: Distortions of its teachings threaten to obscure the impact of the Second Vatican Council; a recommitment to receiving conciliar teachings in fidelity to the Gospel is the only way forward.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is the first pope to have been ordained to the priesthood after the Second Vatican Council. Unlike his two predecessors, St. John Paul II and retired Pope Benedict XVI, ...

Editor's Note: This article is part of the Register’s symposium on Vatican II at 60. In the world of academia one can still find scholars working on the Wirkungsgeschichte (history of how texts have ...

(RNS) — Conservatives, reading Vatican II's documents like biblical fundamentalists, miss what it meant to participants. (RNS) — With the passage of 60 years since the opening of the Second Vatican ...

The Vatican daily L'Osservatore Roman (LOR) published an article this week on a meeting of the international theological and cultural review "Communio," which was founded 38 years ago by Hans Urs von ...

Pope John XXIII officially convened the Second Vatican Council on October 11, 1962—sixty years ago this month. Time really does fly when you’re having fun. Many Catholics consider Vatican II the ...

Six decades have passed since Pope Saint John XXIII announced his intention to “open the windows” of the Roman Catholic Church by convening a gathering of bishops known as the Second Vatican Council.