Tag: Second Vatican Council
Pope Francis extends participation in the synodal assembly to ‘non-bishops,’ including...
VATICAN CITY -- At least three dozen women will be voting members of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October, Pope Francis...
400th anniversary of St. Francis de Sales, Pope Francis reminds ‘Everything...
VATICAN CITY -- The most important question a Christian can ask when making any decision in life is "where the greatest love is to...
Legacy of Second Vatican Council continues amid Synod on Synodality —...
This October was the 60th anniversary of the first session of the Second Vatican Council, a landmark event in the Catholic Church. Yet the...
St. Paul VI: ‘The hour is coming, in fact has come,...
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council. I've found myself rereading the council documents, since they are...
Pope Francis speaks about the Abraham J. Heschel Center for Catholic-Jewish...
VATICAN CITY-- Pope Francis expressed his hope that a new center for Catholic-Jewish relations in Poland will "foster appreciation of the common heritage, not...
Pope Francis calls on Catholics to study Vatican II before Holy...
VATICAN CITY — Before celebrating the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis is asking Catholics around the world to dedicate time in 2023 to studying...
Promoting the Catholic identity aspect of Catholic education ‘requires a commitment...
VATICAN CITY -- Holding together the obligation to protect and promote the Catholic identity of Catholic schools while reaching out to a broader community...
Muslims and Catholics: ‘We believe in the same God’
In the woods of southern Indiana at a Catholic youth summer camp, teenagers prepared themselves to pray after a day of canoeing and rope...
The ‘journey of friendship’ between Catholics and Jews
On June 13, 1960, French historian Jules Isaac arrived at the Vatican for a private audience with St. John XXIII. The octogenarian Jewish professor...
‘Redeemer of man,’ the vision and agenda of St. John Paul...
"Redemptor Hominis" ("The Redeemer of Man," 1979), the first of 14 encyclical letters issued by St. John Paul II (1978–2005), lays out the vision...