Last week, Pope Leo XIV gave two talks, one at a weekly general audience and the other to cardinals, that focused on the Second Vatican Council. His words need to take root in the words and deeds of ...

A leaked document that was distributed to cardinals during Pope Leo XIV's first extraordinary consistory shows that any ...

Nostra Aetate” marked one of the most radical turns in Catholic history: a shift from suspicion to encounter, from a closed fortress to an open horizon.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the promulgation of Gaudium et Spes, the Second Vatican Council’s pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world — and the last text issued by the ...

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 ...

(RNS) — 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 ...

Apostolic Nuncio Cardinal Christophe Pierre told bishops at the 2025 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Fall Plenary Assembly that the Second Vatican Council is “the key to ...