Lumen Gentium (The Light of Nations), the Vatican II constitution on the Church, marks its 60th anniversary Nov. 21. As a “dogmatic constitution” of an ecumenical council, it is officially one ...

O king of the nations, and their desire, the cornerstone making both one: Come and save the human race, which you have ...

COMMENTARY: The Second Vatican Council document articulates the proper relationship between papal authority and the authority of bishops, individually and collectively. Pope St. Paul VI speaks ...

57. This union of the Mother with the Son in the work of salvation is made manifest from the time of Christ's virginal conception up to His death it is shown first of all when Mary, arising in ...