October 11, 1962, will be remembered as one of the great days of modern church history. For on this day the “Second Vatican Ecumenical Council,” which, in the terminology of Pope John XXIII ...

The official name of the council, “Holy and Great,” was probably inspired by the four canons of the Council of Nicaea (325) that use the same terms in reference to the First Ecumenical Council.

Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine and the fathers of the Council of Nicaea of 325 with the Greek text of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381 in its liturgical form.

The Nicene Creed would be expanded at the second ecumenical council, held in Constantinople in 381, to include a section on the Holy Spirit, the “one, holy, Catholic and apostolic Church,” and ...

The anniversary of the council has recently been considered a symbol for what ecumenical dialogue could look like between Eastern and Western churches. “We see today that we really lost what we ...

Dr. Mott and 78 other churchmen, representing 130 denominations with 350,000,000 members in 21 nations, had gone to Utrecht to lay plans for a world council of churches. Such an ecumenical council ...

The forthcoming Ecumenical Council, to be convened here by Pope John XXIII next October, will probably discuss ways of removing from the Jews the stigma of “slayers of God,” Augustin Cardinal ...

Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine and the bishops of the First Council of Nicaea (325) holding the Niceno–Constantinopolitan Creed of 381. (Credit: Wikipedia.) Listen LEICESTER, United ...