• Cardinal Marx: Pope Francis has pushed open the doors of the church

  

  Oct 29, 2014 0:15

  (NCR Online) “The doors are open — wider than they have ever been since the Second Vatican Council. The synod...

   

• The Promise of Synod 2014

  

  Oct 22, 2014 5:13

  (America) The recent two-week synod on the family has been an educational effort similar to that surrounding the Second Vatican...

   

• Speakers say US sisters were at forefront of implementing Vatican II

  

  Dec 14, 2012 1:07

  (CNS) In responding to the Second Vatican Council’s call to universal holiness, American women religious have been...

   

• Fifty Years After: How Vatican II Changed the Church

  

  Dec 5, 2012 4:57

  (Publishers Weekly) The Second Vatican Council–better known as Vatican II (1962-65)–was a watershed event for...

   

• The True Spirit of Vatican II

  

  Dec 3, 2012 6:00

  As far as I know, no participant in the Second Vatican Council summed up its goals or described its spirit as addressing...

   

• The Crisis of a Second Obama Administration

  

  Nov 15, 2012 1:31

  President Obama’s re-election and the prospect of a second Obama administration, freed from the constraints imposed by...

   

• Vatican II’s greatest triumph is its understanding of renewal

  

  Nov 14, 2012 5:26

  Many argue that the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (“Lumen Gentium”) stands as the jewel...

   

• Respect and difference: interreligious dialogue since Vatican II

  

  Nov 2, 2012 8:30

  Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council launched a new Catholic commitment to interreligious dialogue, work continues...

   

• Misreading of Vatican II dampened missionary zeal, theologian says

  

  Oct 29, 2012 6:08

  On the subject of the Second Vatican Council, Ralph Martin is nothing if not an enthusiast. The theologian, who teaches at...

   

• Vatican II: The beginning of the end of Catholic anti-Semitism

  

  Oct 26, 2012 7:40

  On Oct. 28, 1958, Cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, a rotund jolly Italian was elected to succeed the recently deceased...