Vatican II

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? ...

What has unfolded during Pope Leo XIV’s first extraordinary consistory has already revealed more than any formal communiqué could hope to convey. As I have already mentioned in my last ...

A third of Generation Z has left the Catholic faith since 2018, and many of the remaining Zoomers desire only traditional Catholicism. Before we get to what young Americans want ...

This consistory opens the way a religion opens: with its sacred text, proclaimed as the key to everything. Leo XIV does not treat Vatican II as one council among many, ...

The Vatican is probably the last place the faithful should be looking for pastors. And just like that, Trad, Inc., conservative Catholics, and the EWTN crowd saw their hopes dashed ...

This week we marked the 60th anniversary of the closing of Vatican II, and the usual suspects tried to tell us that it still has wonderful fruits. Yet the reality ...

The years since the Second Vatican Council have tested the faith of pastors and the patience of the faithful. A bishop today inherits not a tranquil vineyard but one shaken ...

Bishop Marian Eleganti OSB is a Swiss retired auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Chur. A transcript of the bishop's statement is available at The Remnant ...

Pope Francis — who abetted anti-life forces, betrayed the Chinese underground Church, sacked loyal priests, empowered homosexuals, rewarded abortionists, praised Luther, blessed adultery and homosexuality, and denied dogma — was ...

An Italian parish priest has been suspended from ministry after hosting an online meeting in which he declared that the reforms of the Second Vatican Council were contrary to the ...

A Harvard economist and a Catholic layman both prove what NeoCatholic Popesplainers disingenuously told us was a “logical fallacy.” Every time a traditional Catholic points out the correlation between Vatican ...

From the summary of a major new paper just published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), in Cambridge, Massachusetts, authored by some of the greatest names in Economic ...

like Kremlinologists during the Cold War, American Catholics are searching for clues to the character of their new pope. Conservatives take heart that he wore the red mozzetta that Pope ...

Jorge Bergoglio was ordained to the priesthood on December 19, 1969, four years after the close of Vatican II. His immediate predecessors — John Paul II and Benedict XVI — ...

If you have no spirituality, you have no soul. Let me explain why the Second Vatican Council came to have no soul. It involves going back to the Early Church ...