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 ...

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 is a fundamental point of Christian faith, which Dei Verbum reminds us of: Jesus Christ radically transforms man’s ...

Leo XIV held his first general audience of 2026 in the Nervi Hall, in the presence of 7,000 people. He began the reflections on the Council documents to “continue to seek ways and means to imple ...

Leo XIV — the first pope from the U.S., the first born after World War II and the first canon lawyer in a long time — can lead the Catholic Church to a rediscovery of Vatican II through its texts, ...

(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 ...

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 ...

COMMENTARY: The early history of the landmark document manifests the significant doctrinal development, which led the Catholic Church to proclaim the vital importance of religious liberty for modern ...

At a recent general audience in Rome, Pope Leo XIV announced that his catechesis this year would focus on the Second Vatican ...