“Well, this wasn’t it.” Vatican II was the council convened in 1962 to modernize the church for an increasingly secular world ...

then shocked and then sometimes disappointed at what was emerging from the council with each passing month.” Of course, we know that it would have been deeply unwise to judge Vatican II based on ...

COMMENTARY: Chapter 6 of ‘Lumen Gentium’ is a forceful testament to the vital importance of the religious life in the Church’s mission.

The documents produced by Vatican II say relatively little about women, which was, arguably, a victory for female auditors.

Father Gilles Routhier, an expert at the Synod of Bishops on Synodality and a theologian teaching at Laval University in ...

In seeking to resolve the arguments of its progressive and conservative forces, the Second Vatican Council has frequently pressed into service that invaluable tool of consensus, ambiguity.

Vatican II, acknowledging their usefulness and potential, recommended that episcopal conferences be established wherever they did not yet exist. Since the council, they have become “the ...

“The Way Forward: Pope Francis, Vatican II, and Synodality,” which took place March 3-4, brought together 80 participants—including cardinals, bishops, and other Catholic Church leaders, as well as ...

“Well, this wasn’t it.” Vatican II was the council convened in 1962 to modernize the church for an increasingly secular world. It ordered epochal revisions — changing the language of the ...