Pope Leo: Vatican II Reformed the Liturgy to Promote Active Participation
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"The participation of the faithful cannot be passive," the pontiff said. "From this conviction arose the need to make the richness of the biblical texts and prayers more accessible...
Pope’s General Audience, September 2, 2026, on the Church Listening to and Serving the World The post How does the Church serve and listen to the world? Leo XIV answers by explaini...
James Keating, The Fourth Watch In my last Fourth Watch, which treated the controversy over the SSPX, ended with the claim that the problem it raises for the wider Church goes...
Rory Fox, Catholic Stand Prior to Vatican II (1965) the Church was committed to religious tolerance. Vatican II changed the situation by declaring religious freedom. Since that...
Vatican II cannot be your reason for overhauling everything Catholics once believed. Father David Nix, who converted from liberal to conservative to traditional Catholicism, has se...
"Leo's challenge will be to demonstrate that a synodal church can also be a governable church," theologian Rafael Luciani writes.
Over the past sixty years the documents of Vatican II, and indeed the council itself, have become emblematic of a sort of Catholic ideological divide. Opponents and proponents site...
Leo XIV and his Vatican actually reject certain key portions of Vatican II — on doctrinal development and ecumenism — that the SSPX accepts.
The reform, contained in the apostolic letter issued on August 29 under the title Mutua Concordia, changes canons 106 and 126 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. It took...
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‘The need arose for the faithful to celebrate the liturgies more consciously and actively, not ‘as strangers and silent spectators’,’ Pope Leo said about Vatican II and ‘liturgical...
Observers wonder whether Leo XIV will continue in the course Francis charted and steered, but Leo's series on Vatican II has shown he is looking to Benedict as much as he is to his...
Bishop Joseph Strickland pointed out that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger once described Gaudium et Spes as a kind of ‘counter syllabus’ in opposition to Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Error...
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Pope Leo XIV recalled that Pope John XXIII slammed those who believe modern times are worse than past ages, then went on to ask the faithful to engage with 'modern realities' such...
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Pope Leo XIV has been speaking about Vatican II's document on liturgy since May, but the liturgy wars are still unabated.
New Synod guidelines call for representatives of 'other religions' in local ‘assemblies’ and leadership roles for lay Catholics as part of an ongoing ‘transformation’ of Church gov...
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"The Roman Curia for centuries has been all male, all white, all Italian and all clerical," writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters. "Not anymore and not ever again."
Pope's General Audience, August 26, 2026, on Liturgical Reform The post Why was there a liturgical reform in the Church? Pope Leo XIV explains it appeared first on ZENIT - English.
The Vatican’s International Theological Commission said the Eucharist can lead to ‘the ecological conversion that we so urgently need to undertake as a human family,’ in a new docu...
Pope Leo XIV told Lutheran bishops that they have a 'shared mission' with the Catholic Church, echoing ecumenical gestures from the Vatican toward Protestants in recent years.
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