An economics paper published last month on religious service attendance trends in 66 countries concluded that the implementation of reforms associated with the Second Vatican Council likely ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the promulgation of Gaudium et Spes, the Second Vatican Council’s pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world — and the last text issued by the ...

In the United States, Catholics kneel during the Eucharistic prayer while Catholics in the rest of the world stand. Many European churches, especially the older ones, do not even have kneelers. After ...

In the wake of the Second Vatican Council, a wave of now-familiar but then-novel structures emerged: bishops' conferences, priests' councils, parish councils and diocesan pastoral councils. The ...