Recently, Pope Benedict XVI, now Pope Emeritus, criticized the media for it’s continued misrepresenting of Vatican II. In response, NET (New Evangelization Television) debuted a 10-part weekly series ...

Monday, Dec. 8, marked the 60th anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council. It is an axiom among church historians that it takes a century for a council to be received, so we are almost ...

On that windy Wednesday morning, Dec. 8, 1965, the Second Vatican Council came to an end. In the presence of more than 2,300 Council Fathers, mostly bishops, and some 300,000 faithful gathered in St.

Pope Leo XIV began a series of reflections on the Second Vatican Council at his first general audience of 2026 on Wednesday. The public audience, held indoors in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall due to low ...

Any attempt to evaluate all the accomplishments of the Second Vatican Council’s first session would be not only presumptuous but also premature. Some things, however, may be profitably noted. In the ...

"Vatican II did not drop out of the sky," writes Michael Sean Winters. "There were three essential precursors to St. John XXIII's decision in 1959 to announce he was calling an ecumenical council." ...

Pope Leo XIV closed the Holy Wear on Wednesday with his first meeting with the world’s cardinals at a two-day extraordinary consistory focused on aspects of Church teaching that many traditional ...