Second Vatican Council
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The Second Vatican Council, which concluded 60 years ago Dec. 8, was made to order for the lavish photojournalism of Life magazine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
This came after reforms that followed the Second Vatican Council, which brought the 2,000-year-old church into the modern era.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023
“Particularly since the Second Vatican Council, and theologically, the ground for keeping governance united to ordination is getting shakier.”
From Washington Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
Critics saw his papacy as a concerted drive to turn back the clock on reforms of the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council, which modernised the Church in sometimes turbulent ways.
From Reuters ● Dec. 31, 2022
Archbishop Weakland was the author or co-author of a dozen books on topics including Catholic education and the church since the liberalizing Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2022
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