Vatican II is still an ongoing project as we all dig deeper into its treasures, hold ourselves accountable for any ...

Pope John XXIII’s goal was to promote evangelism, not to accept secularism.

The Second Vatican Council’s central purpose was evangelization. All of its reforms, whether about liturgy, ecumenism and interreligious dialogue, or education, were all ordered toward one goal: to ...

COMMENTARY: The Church continues to be inspired by the rich insights and vitality of the last ecumenical council.

The council fathers at Vatican II in 1962 (Wikimedia Commons). There are, according to political analyst and papal biographer George Weigel, two approaches to the Second Vatican Council that need ...

Vatican II’s discussion of tradition is the authority for the Synod on Synodality’s reflections today, a theologian and Australian Catholic priest told delegates as the assembly’s final week kicked ...

I was about 10-years-old when the phrase "Vatican II" first came into my consciousness. My family was in its regular pew at St. Joseph's parish, and I was in the daze that accompanies elementary ...

The Rev. Patrick Rogers, a member of the Society of Jesus, is vice president for mission integration at Le Moyne College. His role is to ensure the college is being true to its Jesuit mission efforts.

When the church historian Massimo Faggioli was doing research at America Media last week, he uncovered a treasure trove of “poems on postcards” in the magazine from the 1960s by John Cogley, the ...

An economics paper published last month on religious service attendance trends in 66 countries concluded that the implementation of reforms associated with the Second Vatican Council likely ...

Pope Francis rested well all night, according to *** one line statement issued Tuesday morning by the Vatican press office giving no further details. The pontiff has now been in hospital for 12 days, ...