When the Second Vatican Council formally ended on Dec. 8, 1965, theologians and scholars immediately undertook a new (and ongoing) task: interpreting the council and providing the faithful with the ...

EDITORIAL: Distortions of its teachings threaten to obscure the impact of the Second Vatican Council; a recommitment to receiving conciliar teachings in fidelity to the Gospel is the only way forward.

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, is pictured near a bull during the blessing of farm animals and Italian military horses outside St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Jan. 17, ...

Gabriele is being held in room inside the tiny Vatican police station. May 28, 2012— -- He is always at the Pope Benedict XVI's side. Butler Paolo Gabriele helps the pope dress in the morning and ...

Editor's Note: This article is part of the Register’s symposium on Vatican II at 60. In the world of academia one can still find scholars working on the Wirkungsgeschichte (history of how texts have ...