Few remember today, 60 years after Vatican II, that one of the outcomes of that monumental event was the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences. The CCEE originated from a discussion among European ...
On Dec. 4, 1963, Sacrosanctum Concilium, the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy — the first of four constitutions resulting from the Second Vatican Council — was promulgated by Pope Paul VI. The text ...
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 ...
The title character, an American priest asked by the Vatican to investigate the sanctification of the pontiff who was ...
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 ...
(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 Oxford Handbook of Vatican II attempts a Herculean task. Part reference book, part introduction to a complex historical subject, part analysis of a still ongoing reception of the conciliar ...
A major conference at Boston College earlier this month, co-hosted by the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, is believed to be the largest gathering of Catholic leadership at a ...
On the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to leave behind criticism and anger and to live the faith with joy. “May the Church be overcome ...
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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 ...