The Vatican dicastery charged with overseeing and assisting religious orders confirmed that it plans to conduct an apostolic ...

Speaking from the Great Hall of the Robert F. Kennedy Building in Washington last week, Merrick Garland described criticism ...

Then came Vatican II (1962-1965). The council recommended a warm and fervent ... In many places, Marian devotions (novena services or the rosary) were replaced by an evening Mass (a practice which ...

Informed by their own experiences of Mass in various traditions and inflections ... Looking back to the pre-Vatican II world, there are many other traditions and practices that I would like ...

I don’t think God would speak to me only through the voice of a priest.'” The young woman’s elders, said Hidalgo, were ...

The same thirst is driving rising Catholic interest in the pre-Vatican II-style Mass, where the priest speaks in Latin, many ...

Vatican II’s Decree on the Mass Media, 60 Years Later COMMENTARY: ‘Inter Mirifica’ remains a vital reference point for reflecting on the role of social communications in the Catholic Church ...

I go to Mass on Sundays in order to fill up my spiritual ... and to be happy with Him forever in the next.” After Vatican II, however, the more individually oriented account of the reasons ...

“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 ...

This essay proposes that the ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council is best characterized as a “communion-in-mission.” A first section shows that the council was a “missionary council” from start ...

Telling his fellow bishops not to fear offending him or others with their opinions is a departure from John Paul II who, contrary to the spirit of synodality, reasserted the church’s pre-Vatican II ...