The appointment of both a nun as prefect and a cardinal as pro-prefect of a Vatican dicastery marks an unprecedented ...

THE whole world expects a step forward,” said John : XXIII as he opened the Second Vatican Council in October 1962. When Pope Paul VI formally closed it last week, church.” he heralded Whateve ...

This week the bishops attending the second session of the Vatican Council in Rome will end their deliberations and go home. Behind them they leave a great historical movement brought temporarily ...

The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, or Vatican II, was the twenty-first Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church. It opened under Pope John XXIII on 11 October 1962 and closed under ...

“The event,” as theologian Karl Barth has called Vatican Council II, reached its formal close here yesterday, though it may be said that its real work is just beginning. The idea of holding ...

The pope, who turned 88 Dec. 17, mostly uses a wheelchair and presides over rather than concelebrates most public liturgies.