‘VATICAN II REMAINS THE KEY,’ NUNCIO TELLS US BISHOPS Today in Baltimore, Cardinal Christophe Pierre focused on “the teaching and vision of the Second Vatican Council” during his address at the USCCB’s fall meeting: https://www.usccb.org/resources/2025-11 USCCB Assembly.pdf Video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCK1WFJy1QU “I am convinced that Vatican II remains the key to understanding what kind of Church we are called to be today, and the reference point for discerning where we are hea

Friends, there is a suspicion of Vatican II from both the “left” and the “right” in the Church. Some think that the Church should be constantly open to revolution and change. Others believe that the Church should turn backward and inward on itself. But Vatican II avoids both extremes by emphasizing both doctrinal stability and a robust missionary zeal. The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), a gathering of Catholic bishops from around the world, was one of the most significant cultural and eccle

Pope Leo reflects on the 60th anniversary of Nostra aetate, the Second Vatican Council's declaration on non-Christian religions. In his catechesis, Pope Leo highlighted the importance of Jewish-Catholic relations, and underlined how religions can work together to build a better world. “We cannot deny that there have been misunderstandings, difficulties, and conflicts” in the sixty years since the publication of Nostra aetate, Pope Leo said, “but these have never prevented the dialogue from conti