Rabbi David Seed and Dr. Murray Watson celebrate 60 years of Jewish-Catholic dialogue since Vatican II's Nostra Aetate. ...read more

Julien Hammond looks back on the history of Catholic interreligious dialogue in the six decades since Vatican II's landmark Declaration. ...read more

Sixty years after Lumen Gentium, the question is as relevant today as it was then: What kind of Church is God calling us to be and to become? ...read more

At a high school reunion shortly after Pope Benedict XVI was elected, I was challenged by a former classmate who is now a United Church Minister. ...read more

In today's General Audience, Pope Francis highlighted the role of lay people in the apostolic mission of the Church. ...read more

October 11, 2022 marks 60 years since the start of the Second Vatican Council. So what was Vatican II and why does it matter today? Vatican II was the biggest Church event in the 20th century, bringing together all the bishops of the Catholic Church – 2,625 of them! – with the pope and many ...read more

In a new apostolic letter, "Desiderio Desideravi", Pope Francis emphasizes the importance of a better understanding of Vatican II's liturgical reform. ...read more

Read the full text of Blessed Pope Paul VI's Closing Messages of Vatican II in honour of his canonization taking place on October 14, 2018. ...read more

Today, Pope Francis released a new papal document - Gaudete et Exsultate: On the Call to Holiness in Today’s World. The Latin title, Rejoice and Be Glad, comes from Matthew 5:12, part of the Sermon on the Mount - Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven. The Sermon on the Mount figures heavily into the document, providing a sort of 'roadmap' to holiness. Here are a few points to keep in mind as you read through the document: ...read more

The final lessons of John XXIII and Benedict XVI G.K. Chesterton once wrote: “It is of the new things that men tire… of fashions and proposals and improvements and change. It is the old things that startle and intoxicate. It is the old things that are young.” This was the paradoxical justification Chesterton gave for ...read more