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Second Vatican Council

Pope Leo XIV offers his blessing to visitors and pilgrims during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Aug. 26, 2026. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope Leo: Liturgy reform calls faithful to active, conscious worship

Carol Glatz|Aug 26, 2026|4 Min Read

Lent Curia

Vatican II's openness is needed in today's church, cardinal tells Curia

Justin McLellan|Mar 3, 2023|2 Min Read

Pope Benedict XVI is pictured during his final general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in this Feb. 27, 2013, file photo. The Second Vatican Council was "not only meaningful, but necessary," the retired pontiff said in a letter to an Oct. 20-21, 2022, conference on his work at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Vatican II was 'necessary,' retired pope writes to U.S. conference

Catholic News Service|Oct 21, 2022|2 Min Read

Xavière Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart, undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops, attends a news conference to present an update on the synod process at the Vatican Aug. 26, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Vatican II and the synod: Openness to Spirit brings harmony, official says

Cindy Wooden|Oct 14, 2022|4 Min Read

Pope John XXIII leads the opening session of the Second Vatican Council in St. Peter's Basilica Oct. 11, 1962. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

'Dei Verbum' and the 60th anniversary of Vatican II

Bishop Robert Barron|Oct 13, 2022|4 Min Read

A glass urn containing the remains of St. John XXIII is pictured as Pope Francis delivers his homily as he celebrates Mass in St. Peter's Basilica Oct. 11, 2022, to mark the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Text: Pope's homily on the 60th anniversary of opening of Vatican II

Catholic News Service|Oct 12, 2022|10 Min Read

Pope Francis meets with the editors of 10 European Jesuit magazines and Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Jesuits, May 19, 2022, in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. The pope responded to the editors' questions about the war in Ukraine, the current state of the Catholic Church and how he makes decisions when a diocese is experiencing turmoil. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

War, Vatican II, decision making: Pope shares insights with Jesuit editors

Cindy Wooden|Jun 14, 2022|5 Min Read

In this Oct. 6, 2004 file photo, Hans Küng, attends the Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany. Hans Küng, the Roman Catholic theologian who was an early colleague and friend of the future Pope Benedict XVI but later fell foul of the Vatican for challenging church doctrine and became a vocal critic of the pontiff, has died. He was 93. Küng died Tuesday April 6, 2021, at his home in Tuebingen, according to the Global Ethic Foundation, or Stiftung Weltethos in German, which he established in 1995. (Michael Probst/AP via Crux)

Küng, original celebrity theologian and liberal muse, dead at 93

John L. Allen Jr.|Apr 7, 2021|6 Min Read

Hans Küng receives an honorary degree from the National University of Distance Education in Madrid, Spain, Jan. 27, 2011. (UNED via CNA)

World

Controversial Swiss theologian Hans Küng dies at age 93

Catholic News Agency|Apr 6, 2021|3 Min Read

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' annual spring assembly in June 2018 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (CNS/Bob Roller)

‘The Holy Spirit always wins in the end’: An interview with Archbishop Chaput

Pablo Kay|Mar 26, 2021|15 Min Read

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