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.

When the Second Vatican Council formally ended on Dec. 8, 1965, theologians and scholars immediately undertook a new (and ongoing) task: interpreting the council and providing the faithful with the ...

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 ...

Sacrosanctum Concilium, the Second Vatican Council’s constitution on "The Sacred Liturgy," turns 50 on Dec. 4. The main aim of the document was to achieve greater lay participation in the Catholic ...

The late theologian Gerard Mannion called the Roman Catholic Church's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, or Gaudium et Spes, the most impactful Second Vatican Council document ...

The council fathers at Vatican II in 1962 (Wikimedia Commons). But sometimes you have to go backward to go forward. One of the greatest inspirations of the Second Vatican Council was ...