Essay

The Mass of Vatican II

December 7, 2023 Father Joseph Fessio, S.J. 111

Editor’s note: This essay appeared originally in the September/October 2000 issue of Catholic Dossier and is based on a lecture given by Father Fessio in May, 1999. It is reposted to mark the sixtieth anniversary […]

pope john xxiii leads the opening session of the second vatican council in st. peter's basilica at the vatican oct. 11
Features

Vatican II, Sixty Years On

October 10, 2022 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 22

October 11th marks the sixtieth anniversary of the formal opening of the Second Vatican Council. In the lead-up to that day in 1962, my fifth-grade teacher, Sister Regina Rose (who just died last year at […]