 |  The Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) |
Pope John XXIII: Opening Speech at the Council, October 11, 1962 |
| The Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) |
Pope John XXIII: Opening Speech at the Council, October 11, 1962 |
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ARTICLES AND PAPERS ABOUT VATICAN II The Second Vatican Council Resource Guide This guide is intended to serve as a starting point for learning and research, providing selected web links and supplemental reading regarding the Second Vatican Council and its legacy Vatican II - Voice of The Church The principal method of the website is to record the teachings and changes of Vatican II in the writings of men who were there Vatican II - The Historical Context By Arthur Wells Convening Vatican II: John XXIII Calls for a Council By Joseph A. Komonchak in Commonweal, Feb 12, 1999 The Need for Vatican II Principal Themes of Vatican II By Paul Paniccia Vatican II—Continuity or Discontinuity? Toward an Ontology of Meaning By Neil Ormerod in Theological Studies, September 2010 Reconciliation with the Society of Saint Pius X? The Controversy over the Authentic Interpretation of the Council By Eberhard Schockenhoff, professor of moral theology at the University of Freiburg, in Stimmen der Zeit, 2010 Why I Became Catholic: A Witness to Vatican II By John Wilkins in Commonweal, Feb 27, 2009 Vatican II Martin Pendergast's Petition Based upon an original text by Prof. Dr. Norbert Scholl, 2009 A Hermeneutic of Discontinuity John Moffatt SJ looks at how we can understand the changes in the Church since the Council, in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the English Jesuits, January 2009 Interpreting Vatican II: "A New Pentecost" By Thomas Hughson in Theological Studies, March 2008 What Happened at the Council? By John Wilkins in Commonweal, Sept 14, 2007 Between Reform & Rupture: The Council According to Benedict XVI By Richard R. Gaillardetz in Commonweal, Oct 12, 2007 The Ecclesiology of Vatican II By Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, December 2006 Against Forgetting: Memory, History, Vatican II By Stephen Schloesser in Theological Studies, June 2006 Vatican II: Thoughts After Forty Years By John Challenor on "Catholics for a Changing Church," 2005 The Second Vatican Council in the Parish By Derek Reeve on "Catholics for a Changing Church" The Style of Vatican II By John W. O'Malley, S.J., America, February 24, 2003 Vatican II: The Myth and the Reality By Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J. America, February 24, 2003 Vatican II: Official Norms By John W. O'Malley, S.J. in America, March 31, 2003 Vatican II: Substantive Teaching By Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J. in America, March 31, 2003 The Second Vatican Council: Why Should It Matter to Your Generation? By Bishop Blase Cupich, Diocese of Rapid City, October 2003 Reception of Vatican II in the United States By Joseph P. Chinnici in Theological Studies, September 2003 Vatican II: 40 years later Several items that appeared in the National Catholic Reporter in 2002 Version One : A Continuum In The Great Tradition By James Hitchcock in Commonweal, March 9, 2001 Version Two : A Break From The Past By John W. O'Malley in Commonweal, March 9, 2001 Remembering Good Pope John: He Always Tried to Be a Saint. And He Made It - Pope John XXIII By Joseph A. Komonchak in Commonweal, August 11, 2000 Jan Hus's De Ecclesia, Precursor Of Vatican II? By Daniel Didomizio in Theological Studies, June 1999 Romano Guardini: A Precursor of Vatican II By Lawrence S. Cunningham in Commonweal, April 10, 1998 The Revolutionary Event of Vatican II By Andrew M. Greeley in Commonweal, Sept 11, 1998 “Vatican II in Southern Africa,” Bulletin for Contextual Theology, January 1997 Vatican Council II: Light for the Church and for the Modern World By Vincenzo Carbone in Tertium Millennium, 1997 The "great expectations of the Ecumenical Council" By Andrea Riccardi in Tertium Millennium, 1997 20 February 1959. Card. Tardini records: "An importance audience" By Loris Capovilla in Tertium Millennium, 1997 The New Ecclesiology of Vatican II By Walbert Bühlmann, OFM (Cap.), 1996 The Church as Koinonia: A Central Theme of Vatican II By Peter Neuner in The Way, 1990 Second Vatican Council General and advanced information by Richard McBrien, C T McIntire, and others Vatican Two This website by Ingrid H. Shafer celebrates the Second Vatican Council and its promise for the future of the Catholic Church THE PEOPLE OF VATICAN II Second Vatican Council II Closing Speech Delivered by Pope Paul VI at the closing of the Council, December 8, 1965 Vatican II: The Highlight of My Life By Cardinal Franz König The Idea of The Church: Abbot Butler & Vatican II By Father Paul McPartlan Council Reminiscences By Archbishop Denis E. Hurley, OMI Experiences of a Council Father By Bishop Remi J. De Roo Premonitions of Vatican II in the Earlier Life of Bishop Christopher Butler By Dom Daniel Rees Full text search engine of all documents of the II Vatican Council Courtesy of St. Joseph, Austria LUMEN GENTIUM -- DOGMATIC CONSTITUTION ON THE CHURCH Document: ---- Vatican site ---- EWTN page ---- IntraText CT ---- Catholic Information Network page Augustinian Themes In Lumen Gentium, 8 MA thesis by Charles Douglas Robertson, University of Saskatchewan, 2008 Some Considerations on Collegiality and Synodality in the Light of Lumen Gentium Studia Theologica, 2008 Quaestio Disputata: A Response to Karl Becker, S.J., on the Meaning of subsistit in By Francis A. Sullivan in Theological Studies, June, 2006 Commemorating Lumen Gentium: A Short History By Brian Gleeson, CP, in the Australian EJournal of Theology, August 2004 The Mysticism of Lumen Gentium By Kerrie Hide, head of the School of Theology at Signadou Campus ACU, Canberra, in the Australian EJournal of Theology, August 2003 The Offices of Christ, Lumen Gentium and the People's Sense of the Faith By Ormond Rush in Pacifica, June 2003 The Ecclesiology of the Constitution on the Church, Vatican II, 'Lumen Gentium' By Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Presentation at a symposium on the reception of the Council held in Rome in November 2000 DEI VERBUM -- DOGMATIC CONSTITUTION ON DIVINE REVELATION Document: ---- Vatican site ---- EWTN page ---- IntraText CT ---- Catholic Information Network page The Obedience of Faith: Barth, Bultmann, and Dei Verbum By Daniel Gallagher of Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Journal for Christian Theological Research, 2006 Vatican II and The Bible By Robert Murray SJ "Dei Verbum Audiens et Proclamans" – "Hearing the Word of God with Reverence and Proclaiming It with Faith": The Constitution on Divine Revelation "Dei Verbum" By Cardinal Walter Kasper, 2005 From Dei Verbum to Novo Millenio Ineunte – The Reception Process of Dei Verbum in the Light of the Change of Paradigm in the Past 40 Years By John Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, Nigeria, 2005 The Central Role of the Word of God in the life of the Church: The Biblical Animation of Pastoral Ministry By Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini, SJ, 2005 Studying Sacred Scripture in Two Dimensions: Reflections on Dei Verbum after Forty Years By Rabbi Baruch A. Levine, 2005 The Rediscovery of the Word of God: The Second Vatican Council and the Dei Verbum By Claudio Ettl, 2005 "For the Sake of Our Salvation": A Re-reading of Dei Verbum After 40 Years from an European Perspective By Daniel Kosch, 2005 From a Seedling to a Mature Plant: The Post-Conciliar Path Taken by the Pastoral Biblical Movement in Latin America By Gabriel Naranjo Salazar, CM, 2005 Vatican II & The Bible By Father Robert Murray, SJ, 2002 Bishop Christopher Butler OSB: His Role in Dei Verbum By Arthur Wells, 2002 Dei Verbum and Christian Morals By Fr. Benedict Ashley, O.P., in Ignatius Insight. This article originally appeared in the January/February 2000 issue of The Catholic Dossier Dei Verbum 35 years later; understanding the Word of God Keynote Address at the Scripture Conference 2000 by Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap, Archbishop of Denver Renewing Authority : The lesson of Dei verbum - Catholic Church and infallibility of Bible By Joseph Komoncha in Commonweal, Nov 19, 1999 Dei Verbum and the Synoptic Gospels By Bernard Orchard, O.S.B., 1996 The Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation: A Commentary By Joseph Ratzinger, 1967 SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM -- CONSTITUTION ON THE SACRED LITURGY Document: ---- Vatican site ---- EWTN page ---- IntraText CT ---- Catholic Information Network page Spiritus et Sponsa 2003 apostolic letter by Pope John Paul II on the 40th anniversary of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy The Theological Vision of Sacrosanctum Concilium and the Roman Missal From the American Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy Some Highlights of the Liturgical Renewal Initiated by Sacrosanctum Concilium By Francis Cardinal Arinze Prefect, Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. Keynote address to the national convention of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions, at the Omni San Antonio Hotel, October 7-11, 2003 GAUDIUM ET SPES -- PASTORAL CONSTITUTION ON THE CHURCH IN THE MODERN WORLD Document: ---- Vatican site ---- EWTN page ---- IntraText CT ---- Catholic Information Network page Summary of Gaudium et Spes By Gerald Darring, webmaster of Theology Library Critical Comments on Gaudium et Spes Collected by Gerald Darring, webmaster of Theology Library Gaudium et Spes: A Bibliography By Gerald Darring, webmaster of Theology Library More Being: The Emergence of Teilhard de Chardin By John F. Haught in Commonweal, June 5, 2009 Presentations at the conference "The Call to Justice: The Legacy of Gaudium Et Spes 40 Years Later," Vatican City, March 16-19, 2005 Gaudium et spes and Human Rights: The Challenge of a Cosmopolitan World By Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, 2005 Gaudium et Spes: Too Much Joy and Too Much Hope? By Anthony J Kelly, CSsR, Head of the Sub-Faculty of Philosophy and Theology at Australian Catholic University, in the Australian EJournal of Theology, August 2003 The Mission of the Church in Gaudium et spes By Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., in Mission of the Church, 2000 Pope John Paul II and the Christ-centered Anthropology of Gaudium et Spes By Douglas Bushman, Director of the Institute for Pastoral Theology at Ave Maria University, 2000 Pope John Paul II and the Christ-centered Anthropology of Gaudium et Spes By Douglas Bushman in Ignatius Insight, 2000 AD GENTES -- DECREE ON THE MISSION ACTIVITY OF THE CHURCH Document: ---- Vatican site ---- EWTN page ---- IntraText CT ---- Catholic Information Network page Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Participants of the International Conference on Occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the Conciliar Decree "Ad Gentes" Saturday, March 11, 2006 INTER MIRIFICA -- DECREE ON THE MEANS OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATION Document: ---- Vatican site ---- EWTN page ---- IntraText CT ---- Catholic Information Network page Church and Social Communication: 40 years of Inter Mirifica and beyond By Franz-Josef Eilers, SVD Vatican II, 40 Years Later: Inter Mirifica By Colin B. Donovan, STL ORIENTALIUM ECCLESIARUM -- DECREE ON THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES OF THE EASTERN RITE Document: ---- Vatican site ---- EWTN page ---- IntraText CT ---- Catholic Information Network page UNITATIS REDINTEGRATIO -- DECREE ON ECUMENISM Document: ---- Vatican site ---- EWTN page ---- IntraText CT ---- Catholic Information Network page 40th Anniversary of Vatican II Decree Unitatis Redintegratio By Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity Unitatis Redintegratio: A New Interpretation After 40 Years By Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity CHRISTUS DOMINUS -- DECREE CONCERNING THE PASTORAL OFFICE OF BISHOPS IN THE CHURCH Document: ---- Vatican site ---- EWTN page ---- IntraText CT ---- Catholic Information Network page PERFECTAE CARITATIS -- DECREE ON RENEWAL OF RELIGIOUS LIFE Document: ---- Vatican site ---- EWTN page ---- IntraText CT ---- Catholic Information Network page Renewing Religious Life, Attaining Perfect Love By Archbishop Franc Rodé, C.M., Prefect for the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, at the Symposium: the 40th Anniversary of Perfectae Caritatis OPTATAM TOTIUS -- DECREE ON PRIESTLY TRAINING Document: ---- Vatican site ---- EWTN page ---- IntraText CT ---- Catholic Information Network page APOSTOLICAM ACTUOSITATEM -- DECREE ON THE APOSTOLATE OF THE LAITY Document: ---- Vatican site ---- EWTN page ---- IntraText CT ---- Catholic Information Network page Called and Gifted for the Third Millennium Reflections of the U.S. Catholic Bishops on the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity and the Fifteenth Anniversary of Called and Gifted Dominican Spirituality and Vatican II's Expectations of Lay People By Christopher Kiesling, O.P. PRESBYTERORUM ORDINIS -- DECREE ON THE MINISTRY AND LIFE OF PRIESTS Document: ---- Vatican site ---- EWTN page ---- IntraText CT ---- Catholic Information Network page DIGNITATIS HUMANAE -- DECLARATION ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM Document: ---- Vatican site ---- EWTN page ---- IntraText CT ---- Catholic Information Network page Jacques Maritain and Dignitatis Humanae: Natural Law as the Common Language of Religious Freedom By Brian Jones, M.A. in Ignatius Insight, 2009 Dignitatis Humanae and Its Contribution To International Religious Freedom Since Vatican II By David Alton for The Review of Faith and International Affairs An Unfinished Argument: John Courtney Murray, Dignitatis Humanae and the Catholic Theory of the State By Professor Kenneth L. Grasso, Department of Political Science, Southwest Texas State University Father Richard Neuhaus on the Declaration on Religious Freedom "Confrontation," Religious Freedom, and Theological Dialogue By Rabbi Joseph H. Ehrenkranz, Executive Director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding of Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut NOSTRA AETATE -- DECLARATION ON THE RELATION OF THE CHURCH TO NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS Document: ---- Vatican site ---- EWTN page ---- IntraText CT ---- Catholic Information Network page A Ray of that Truth which Enlightens All People On the forty-fifth anniversary of the promulgation of Nostra aetate, the Second Vatican Council's decree on the Church and other faiths, Isabel Smyth SND examines the origins of the declaration, the enormous impact it had on inter-faith relations, and the questions it leaves us with today. 27 October 2010 Official Ecclesial Documents to Implement the Second Vatican Council on Relations with Jews: Study Them, Become Immersed in Them, and Put Them into Practice By Philip A. Cunningham in Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, 2009 Reflections on Covenant and Mission Forty Years after Nostra Aetate By John T. Pawlikowski, Cross Currents, Winter 2006-7 Nostra Aetate and the Questions It Chose to Leave Open By Daniel A. Madigan SJ, Institute for the Study of Religions and Cultures, Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Roma, in Gregorianum, 2006 The Genesis of Nostra Aetate By Thomas Stransky, C.S.P., America October 24, 2005 Nostra Aetate: A Continuing Challenge By Eugene J. Fisher, 2005 Nostra Aetate : A Jewish View "From Disputation to Dialogue" By Rabbi Leon Klenicki, 2005 Nostra Aetate: The Beginning of the Beginning By Philip A. Cunningham, 2005 Unresolved issues and Suggested Solutions By Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor, 2005 Nostra Aetate: 40 Years of Catholic-Jewish Ties By Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor, Director of Interfaith Affairs for the Anti-Defamation League, 2005 The Interfaith Story behind Nostra Aetate Panel discussion sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2005 Jews, Catholics celebrate Nostra Aetate By Tom Roberts in National Catholic Reporter, Dec 9, 2005 After 40 Years, Nostra Aetate's Christological Implications By Hans Hermann Henrix in Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, 2005 Forging an Incarnational Theology Two Score Years after Nostra Aetate By Jesper Svartvik in Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, 2005 "With Sincere Reverence": A Christological Perspective for the Interreligious Dialogue Envisioned by Nostra Aetate By Paolo Gamberini SJ in Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, 2005 A Holy Land Context for Nostra Aetate By David M. Neuhaus SJ and Jamal Khader, Bethlehem University, in Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, 2005 Forty Years After Nostra Aetate By Karen Howard, Ph.D., who teaches Holocaust courses at Merrimack College in No. Andover, MA and is on the faculty in the Theology Department at Boston College, April 2005 Nostra Aetate: Building Bridges of Friendship and Cooperation Over 40 years By David Creamer S.J. in Perspective: A Semi-Annual Examination and Application of Catholic and Ignatian Thought, November 2005 Jewish-Christian Relations: A Conciliar Discovery and Its Methodological Consequences for Dogmatic Theology By Prof. Dr. Peter Hünermann, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome – December 7, 2004 Address on the 37th Anniversary of Nostra Aetate By Walter Cardinal Kasper, Rome - October 28, 2002 Nostra Aetate From the Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center, Springfield, Massachusetts GRAVISSIMUM EDUCATIONIS -- DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN EDUCATION Document: ---- Vatican site ---- EWTN page ---- IntraText CT ---- Catholic Information Network page |
