Dr. Alan Schreck welcomes listeners to a new weekly podcast series on the Holy Spirit. Why learn about the Holy Spirit? Because he is God, the third person…...

Pope St. John Paul II called the Second Vatican Council "the great grace God bestowed on the Church in the twentieth century" and "a sure compass to guide…...

Dr. Schreck talks about one of the Second Vatican Council's landmark documents: Declaration on Religious Liberty, or Dignitatis Humanae. This document upholds the Gospel principle that faith in religious…...

Dr. Schreck talks about two brief documents from the Second Vatican Council. First, Orientalium Ecclesiarum explores the rites and churches that emerged in the East and how these liturgical and…...

Part of the Second Vatican Council's overarching concern in presenting the Catholic Church's nature and mission in our times was its teaching on religious and consecrated life. Dr.…...

Some have said the Second Vatican Council was the "Council of the Laity." Dr. Schreck talks about Apostolicam Actuositatem, the council's document that activated and broadened lay people's participation in…...

Dr. Schreck talks about the Second Vatican Council's decrees on Priestly Formation (Optatam Totius) and on the Ministry and Life of Priests (Presbyterorum Ordinis).  The former emphasized the…...

The role of the bishop in the Catholic Church was one of the important topics taken up by the Council Fathers (who were bishops themselves) at the Second…...

Dr. Schreck explores the Council's decrees on the Church's relationship to non-Christian religions (Nostra Aetate) and on the Church's missionary activity (Ad gentes divinitus). He talks about how…...

Dr. Schreck talks about how the restoration of unity among Christians, or ecumenism, was a priority for Pope St. John XXIII in calling the Second Vatican Council.  As…...