Fifty years ago in America, John Courtney Murray analyzed Pope John XXIII's new encyclical.

The words “humble,” “gentle” and “love” were in frequent use to describe Cardinal Bea while he was in this country. Thus, the president of 100-year-old Boston College, in conferring the degree of Doctor of Civil and Canon Law on the cardinal, said that “in t

Evelyn Waugh’s remarks on Vatican II unveil a paradox—the isolated Catholic. From March 30, 1963.

Any attempt to evaluate all the accomplishments of the Second Vatican Council's first session would be not only presumptuous but also premature. Some things, however, may be profitably noted.

It is our task to assist the church in her passage from the modern world to that new age which has not yet been named.

The council's concern with the liturgy arose from the heart of its pastoral and apostolic charge.

Profiles of 10 cardinals who served as council "presidents"

On the eve of the opening of Vatican II, the editors call for "a council for our times"

In These Pages: From April 21, 1962

Some day you would like to write a book about Catholicism in America as you have known it. You keep putting it off, and the relentless years keep passing. The book will probably never be written.