The topic of “synodality,” which is much in the news these days, seems to mean very different things to different people. In many ways, it is a laudable attempt at increasing the participation of ...

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 ...

EDITORIAL: Distortions of its teachings threaten to obscure the impact of the Second Vatican Council; a recommitment to receiving conciliar teachings in fidelity to the Gospel is the only way forward.

“Nostra Aetate,” released on Oct. 28, 1965, was the Second Vatican Council’s “Declaration on Non-Christian Religions.” The ...

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 ...

In an interview with Vatican News, he shared his reflections and hopes ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming apostolic journey to ...

Last Wednesday, Cardinal Avery Dulles addressed a crowd of Georgetown University students and staff in the ICC Auditorium. Because of this month’s celebration of the Second Vatican Ecumenical ...

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 ...

Sixty years ago, about a month after I entered the Jesuit novitiate in Los Gatos, California, the Second Vatican Council opened in Rome. No one bothered to tell the novices about it. The council went ...

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The titles risk obscuring the revealed truth that Christ is “the sole Mediator and Redeemer,” a new document from the Vatican ...