Vatican II

Bishop Joseph Strickland questioned in a recent video address whether the Second Vatican Council compromised with the modern world. Strickland highlighted the dangers of modernism as well as Pope St ...

Some of us predicted this long ago. Such a move signals a new religion. Why else would they ask for a loyalty oath to a pastoral, nonbinding Council? ...

We will simply state our thesis—post-Conciliar “conservatism” is structurally incapable of ending the crisis because its very identity depends upon preserving the Conciliar settlement while appearing to resist its consequences ...

Some readers, perhaps, may bristle at the question in the title, even going so far as to dismiss it. If this is your inclination, we encourage you to keep reading ...

by Professor Raymond B. Marcin Professor of Law Emeritus, The Catholic University of America. [Thesis Statement: Our Catholic Church has been backing away from its definitive 1907 condemnation of Modernism ...

The first General Congregation of the Second Vatican Council began on Saturday, October 13, 1962, exactly 45 years to the day from the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima. Since ...

The historian Dr. Hanael Bianchi’s new book on Vatican II, A Liberal Revolution, does something different and, in many ways, better, in its narrow focus on the impact of the ...

The Titanic is an image of confidence after collision. That is the present Church. The postconciliar structure still speaks in the voice of authority, still claims the mantle of Peter, ...

Following the debate reopened by the recent consecrations of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X and by the question of the adherence due to the Second Vatican Council, it ...

Archbishop Vigano’s letter to Pope Leo was a straightforward list of questions for the new Pope to answer regarding actions by Pope Francis and the direction of the Catholic Church ...

Following the statements of Leo XIV claiming that the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X would be outside the Church for not accepting certain points of the Second Vatican Council, ...

Less than two weeks before the episcopal consecrations announced by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X for next July 1, one of the texts published during the years of ...

Please explain to us, Leo XIV, exactly what “fundamental elements of the Church” and what “points from the Second Vatican Council” do we need to agree with to be included ...

“At its core, the conflict revolves around the question of truth.” With the Society of St. Pius X set to proceed with episcopal consecrations on July 1, Bishop Athanasius Schneider ...

Harry Houdini hung suspended above Niagara Falls in a locked barrel while crowds gazed upward in anxious fascination. Chains bound his arms. The lid was nailed shut. Gravity and water ...

If Bob Pope has his way, the trajectory of the postconciliar church will ride the wave of a rupturing reading of Vatican II on a surfboard called “dialogue” specially designed ...

The fact that Vatican II was the only “pastoral council” that produced no infallible definitions is in and of itself enough to see it for what it is: a rupture ...

Vatican II will not disappear on its own. Only open and active resistance will preserve tradition in the long run. As much as we would like, we cannot ignore Vatican ...

The New Theology was a dam built by Modernists to contain the mystery of faith on a proto-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion model where everyone was welcome to jump in and ...

Those still giddy about Vatican II appear like a straggling line of octogenarian cheerleaders—irrelevant and embarrassing. Once upon a time, Hollywood used to produce movies. Real movies, that is. They ...

We've been told for 60 years that we've been enjoying the fruits of Vatican II. And we've been told that we haven't had "the real Vatican II—yet." Which is it? ...