What Vatican II Accomplished ... The Second Vatican Council, which opened 60 years ago on Oct. 11, 1962, was the most important Catholic event in half a millennium.

I like an early collection edited by Anthony J. Cernera Vatican II: The Continuing Agenda (Sacred Heart University Press, 1997) and, more recently, Vatican II: Renewal Within Tradition, edited by ...

For those wishing to understand the council, there is no better place to start than “What Happened at Vatican II,” by the Jesuit historian the Rev. John W. O’Malley.

George Weigel’s new book, 'To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II,' is a defense of the council against those who think it created a rupture with tradition (for better or for worse).

The Second Vatican Council, the great revolution in the life of the modern Catholic Church, opened 60 years ago this week in Rome. So much of that 1960s-era world has passed away, but the council ...

For Mr. Weigel, author of “To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II” and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the work of the mid-’60s ecumenical council offers a ...

Moreover, some Vatican observers believe that he regards the council as a check on his freedom to govern the church. “I fear that the bishops are rushing toward the brink of schism,” he told a ...

Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council on this day in 1962. ... He is best known for convening the Second Vatican Council, also known as Vatican II, in 1962.

For modernist Catholics, Vatican II was the one true event, one that transformed Catholicism as it had been understood and practiced for centuries into Pharisaism and then tried to redirect ...

The image above is of the cathedral of Köln after World War II bombing devastated most of that German city. It's why the Second Vatican Council was necessary -- and why it might have been doomed ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis is mixing his Argentine past with his Roman present to create his new papal coat of arms, while harking back to a pope associated with the Second Vatican Council for ...