Tag: Second Vatican Council

20 years after the death of John Paul II on 2 April, 2005, it’s too early to declare St John Paul II a Doctor of the Church. It’s not too soon, however, to imagine why such an honour might be bestowed on him in the future.

Pope Francis prayed alongside representatives of 12 churches and Christian communities as he announced an ecumenical vigil to commemorate the anniversary of the Second Vatican Council.

The future of the priesthood depends on the restoration of its relevance and status, and the reversal of decline in its morale, veteran seminary formator and former Broken Bay vicar-general Fr John Hill said in the inaugural McGuire Lecture at ACU on 7 August.

Younger Catholics can often be sceptical of the Baby Boomer generation, but shouldn’t tar all their seniors with the same brush, writes Philippa Martyr.

It’s been a few decades since I was ordained, and it’s sometimes hard work, but summoning the whole of creation to prayer every morning never gets old. I don’t know why other priests don’t love their jobs as much as I do, asks Philippa Martyr.

Pope Francis invited women to participate in the Council of Cardinals to reflect on the role of women in the Church including the diaconate and lay ministry.

It was a time of controversy, reform and backlash, liturgy wars, calls for more vernacular language at Mass and in the Scriptures, and anxiety that the faith would be polluted by dangerous “isms.”

Those most enthusiastic about the Synod on Synodality that opens on 4 October are wont to say that it’s the most important Catholic event since the Second Vatican Council

The first words of the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church—one of the council’s two most important texts—signaled a decisive development in Catholic self-understanding.

Why are apologists for the new ultramontanism not more critical of the bludgeoning of a small number of liturgical traditionalists?

Mr Adam Lucas, who is “newly married with a baby on the way” and “has a Master’s in Theology,” speaks for a depressing number...

The church’s current social teaching is profoundly rooted in the Second Vatican Council and oriented to the urgent needs of today said Cardinal Michael...