 |  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 The Need for Vatican II Principal Themes of Vatican II By Paul Paniccia The Council's Spirit: Vatican II: The Time for Reconciliation By John W. O'Malley, S.J.in Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, 2012 The "New" Jesuits: The Response to the Society of Jesus to Vatican II, 1962-2012: Some Alacrity, Some Resistance By Patrick Howell, S.J.in Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, 2012 Interreligious and Ecumenical Dialogue at Vatican II: Some Rethinking Required By Peter Phan in Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, 2012 Catholics Are "Just Like Everyone Else?": The Council and Catholic Conviction By Stephen M. Fields, S.J.in Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, 2012 Vatican II: Text and Context: Its Impact is Just Beginning By Massimo Faggioli in Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, 2012 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 A Ray of that Truth which Enlightens All People By Isabel Smyth SND in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the British Jesuits, October 2010 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 Gaudium et Spes - The Shape of the Church: Past, Present and to Come… By Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the British Jesuits, March 2009 Gaudium et Spes -The Shape of the Church: Past, Present and to Come… By Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the British Jesuits, February 2009 A Hermeneutic of Discontinuity By John Moffatt SJ in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the British Jesuits, January 2009 Thinking about the Council By Ian Linden in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the British Jesuits, January 2009 Toward a More Dialogical Church Podcast of presentation in which Richard Gaillardetz, Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Toledo, discusses how Vatican II helped to make the Church more dialogical, 2009 Vatican II: An Eye Witness Account - Part II Podcast of presentation by Michael Lawer, Professor Emeritus of Theology, 2009 Vatican II: An Eye Witness Account - Part I Podcast of presentation by Michael Lawer, Professor Emeritus of Theology, 2009 Interpreting Vatican II: "A New Pentecost" By Thomas Hughson, S.J. in Theological Studies, March 2008 Vatican II: Glimpses into Six Centuries of Its Prehistory By Aloysius Pieris, SJ in East Asian Pastoral Review, 2007 Pope John Paul II, Vatican II, and Capital Punishment By Howard Bromberg in Ave Maria Law Review, 2007 The Legacy of Vatican II By Mark Kenney SM in Compass: A Review of Topical Theology, Autumn 2006 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: Did Anything Happen? By John W. O'Malley in Theological Studies, March 2006 "The Times They Are a'Changin'": A Response to O'Malley and Schloesser By Neil Ormerod in Theological Studies, December 2006 Still Relevant? Vatican II Forty Years On By Richard Lennan in Compass: A Review of Topical Theology, Spring 2005 Asian Christianity and Modernity: Forty Years After Vatican II By Felix Wilfred in East Asian Pastoral Review, 2005 "Church of the Poor": The Church in the Philippines' Reception of Vatican II By Bishop Teodoro C. Bacani, Jr. in East Asian Pastoral Review, 2005 "Crisigenic" Council with Unwritten Agenda By Aloysius Pieris, SJ in East Asian Pastoral Review, 2005 Vatican II and the Liturgical Renewal: An Unfinished Agenda By Keith F. Pecklers, S.J. in East Asian Pastoral Review, 2005 Rediscovering Vatican II: Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue By Cardinal Walter Kasper, October 2005 Treasures of Vatican II: Our Compass for the Future By Edward P. Hahnenberg, Ph.D. in Catholic Update, 2005 Vatican II in Hope and Memory: The Power of Vatican II and the Structures of Power By Veronica Lawson RSM in Compass: A Review of Topical Theology, Autumn 2004 Vatican II: End of a Clerical Church? By Peter Price in Compass: A Review of Topical Theology, Autumn 2004 The Mission Motivation According to Vatican II By Felipe Gómez, S.J. in East Asian Pastoral Review, 2004 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 Attaining the Contemplative Outlook By Louise Mitchell, National Catholic Bioethics Center, at the “Formation and Renewal Conference” in the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, 2003 Vatican II: Myth and Reality By Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ, in America, February 24, 2003 Vatican II: 40 years later Several items that appeared in the National Catholic Reporter in 2002 Newman, the Councils, and Vatican II By Ian Ker in Communio: International Catholic Review, Winter 2001 Jan Hus's De Ecclesia, Precursor of Vatican II? By Daniel Didomizio in Theological Studies, June 1999 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 Buhlmann, OFM (Cap.), 1996 Vatican II: The Vision Lives On: Thirty years after the Council By Leonard Foley, O.F.M. in Catholic Update, 1993 The Church as Koinonia: A Central Theme of Vatican II By Peter Neuner in The Way, 1990 The Church and Culture since Vatican II: On the Analogy of Faith and Art By Charles M. Murphy in Theological Studies, June 1987 Developments, Reforms, and Two Great Reformations: Towards a Historical Assessment of Vatican II By John W. O'Malley in Theological Studies, September 1983 Towards a Fundamental Theological Interpretation of Vatican II By Karl Rahner in Theological Studies, December 1979 Was Vatican II Evolutionary? A Note on Conciliar Language By Leo J. O'Donovan in Theological Studies, September 1975 Reform, Historical Consciousness, and Vatican II's Aggiornamento By John W. O'Malley in Theological Studies, December 1971 Vatican II's Constitution on Revelation: History and Interpretation By Gregory Baum in Theological Studies, March 1967 The Vatican Council on Modern War By Paul Ramsey in Theological Studies, June 1966 A Jewish reaction to Catholic positions in Vatican II By Marc H. Tannenbaum in Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America, 1966 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 Stand Up For Vatican II Stand up for Vatican II came about as a result of a number of people becoming increasingly aware that certain actions being taken by the Vatican appear to be taking the Church back to the way it was prior to the Council. 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 Konig 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 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 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 Dei Verbum: On the face of God 'unveiled' By James Corkery SJ in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the British Jesuits, October 2012 The Obedience of Faith: Barth, Bultmann, and Dei Verbum By Daniel Gallagher of Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Journal for Christian Theological Research, 2006 "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 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 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 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 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 Dignitatis Humanae and Its Contribution To International Religious Freedom Since Vatican II By David Alton for The Review of Faith and International Affairs, 2010 Jacques Maritain and Dignitatis Humanae: Natural Law as the Common Language of Religious Freedom By Brian Jones, M.A. in Ignatius Insight, 2009 Pharaoh Amenhotep and Dignitatis Humanae By Nikolaus Lobkowicz in Oasis: Biannual Journal of the Oasis International Foundation, September 2008 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 Conciliar Deliberations on Nostra Aetate Full texts of the interventions by council Fathers The Drafting of Nostra Aetate Includes the six drafts that were presented to the council Nostra Aetate Podcast of presentation by Eileen Burke Sullivan, 2012 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 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 after 40 Years: A Decisive Change By Michael A. Signer, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame, 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 |
