At a recent general audience in Rome, Pope Leo XIV announced that his catechesis this year would focus on the Second Vatican ...

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 ...

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 Word of God is still in the hands of the Church and all of us, in our various ecclesial ministries, must continue to preserve it in its integrity, as a lodestar for our journey through the ...

COMMENTARY: The Second Vatican Council document articulates the proper relationship between papal authority and the authority of bishops, individually and collectively. Pope St. Paul VI speaks during ...