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 ...

Wednesday's talk was part of a longer series on the documents of Vatican II which the Pope began earlier this month.

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, is pictured near a bull during the blessing of farm animals and Italian military horses outside St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Jan. 17, ...

With the passage of 60 years since the opening of the Second Vatican Council, there are few people alive who remember the event, even fewer who participated. The council, comprising all the Catholic ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday marked the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council — the church meetings he attended as a young priest that brought the Catholic Church into ...