“Vatican II will be remembered in history as the Council of the advancement of the laity in the Church,” commented one Council Father during the discussion of the Council’s document on the apostolate ...

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 ...

Pope Paul VI presides over a 1963 session of Vatican II. Credit: CNS photo/Catholic Press Photo. The constitution, wrote America associate editor Donald R. Campion, S.J., shortly after its publication ...

All the popes of the post-Vatican II period have been, in different ways, faithful to the Second Vatican Council. None of them has abrogated or superseded the documents of Vatican II, on the contrary: ...

Marie-Dominique Chenu, O.P., in an undated photograph. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The first decades of the 21st century have witnessed a fair amount of debate in Catholic theology among scholars on ...

FOND DU LAC – Holy Family Catholic Community pastor, the Very Rev. Ryan J. Pruess, will be awarded the Archdiocese of Milwaukee’s Vatican II Award in September. Pruess, a Slinger native, has been a ...