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 ...

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican on Monday reaffirmed its opposition to gender-affirmation surgeries, gender theory and surrogate parenthood, as well as abortion and euthanasia, four months after ...

(RNS) — The late theologian Gerard Mannion called the Roman Catholic Church’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, or “Gaudium et Spes,” the most impactful Second Vatican Council ...

Two things struck me while reading Dignitas Infinita or "Infinite Dignity," the new declaration on surrogacy, gender and life from the Vatican released April 8 by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a new document on human dignity issued Monday (April 8), the Vatican’s department that guides Catholic doctrine reinforced the church’s opposition to abortion, surrogacy, ...

The Second Vatican Council, which after three years of dialogue and document drafting closed on Dec. 8, 1965, changed the face of the church, and opened it to the modern world. The council, opened ...

VATICAN CITY – A Vatican document released Tuesday offers wide-ranging ethical guidelines for the application of artificial intelligence in sectors from warfare to health care, with an underlying call ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican document ...