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 ...

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 ...

The universal call to holiness is a signature teaching of the Second Vatican Council. The topic forms the subject of the fifth chapter of Lumen Gentium, the Council’s dogmatic constitution on the ...

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 ...

Participants in the opening session of the 16th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops follow Pope Francis on monitors in the Paul VI Hall at The Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio ...

Vatican II’s discussion of tradition is the authority for the Synod on Synodality’s reflections today, a theologian and Australian Catholic priest told delegates as the assembly’s final week kicked ...

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 ...

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 ...

The canon lawyer, author and longtime professor Jesuit Fr. Ladislas Orsy died April 3 at the age of 103. He is remembered in the following tribute written by William M. Treanor, dean of Georgetown ...

ROME – Recently a media thunderstorm erupted in Rome when the brother of the “Vatican girl,” referring to the 1983 disappearance of a 15-year-old girl that’s become the most notorious unsolved mystery ...

LIMITATIONS: But the 10-page report made scant mention of any supervisory operations carried out in 2012. The Vatican created the oversight agency in 2010 in a bid to shed its image as a secretive tax ...

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