On that windy Wednesday morning, Dec. 8, 1965, the Second Vatican Council came to an end. In the presence of more than 2,300 Council Fathers, mostly bishops, and some 300,000 faithful gathered in St.

Pope Leo XIV began a series of reflections on the Second Vatican Council at his first general audience of 2026 on Wednesday. The public audience, held indoors in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall due to low ...

Monday, Dec. 8, marked the 60th anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council. It is an axiom among church historians that it takes a century for a council to be received, so we are almost ...

When the Second Vatican Council formally ended on Dec. 8, 1965, theologians and scholars immediately undertook a new (and ongoing) task: interpreting the council and providing the faithful with the ...

Recently, Pope Benedict XVI, now Pope Emeritus, criticized the media for it’s continued misrepresenting of Vatican II. In response, NET (New Evangelization Television) debuted a 10-part weekly series ...

(RNS) — The anniversary offers an opportunity to reflect not just on what the document says, but on the young papacy of Leo XIV. (RNS) — The late theologian Gerard Mannion called the Roman Catholic ...

Amid recent controversy over Vatican II, a theologian said that ecumenical councils have a history of provoking conflict, but their expression and explanation of the Catholic faith is protected by the ...

By his appointment, Mr Kukah “joins other prominent Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops from all over the world to serve a ...