The Eucharist is not simply a cultural legacy. It is more than a moving performance or a beautiful ritual symbolizing ...

COMMENTARY: Approved on the same day as ‘Lumen Gentium’ and ‘Unitatis Redintegratio,’ ‘Orientalium Ecclesiarum’ manifests the ...

Historic images of the meeting of the Second Vatican Council. When Samu Qureshi sits down in the middle of his 4,100-square-foot “museum” in Bethesda, the longtime Washington football fan is ...

Over the next few years, leading to December 2025, we will be marking the 60th anniversary of the unfolding of the Second Vatican Council. This period offers us a special opportunity to look back ...

What Vatican II wanted In the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, the Council called for (#14) "full, conscious and active (actuosa in Latin) participation" by all members of the Church.

One of the more interesting passages in Pope Francis’s television interview on Sunday was his statement that sins of the ...