 |  The Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) |
| The Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) |
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Pope John XXIII: Opening Speech at the Council, October 11, 1962 |
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ARTICLES AND PAPERS ABOUT VATICAN II The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council The Revolutionary Event of Vatican II Article by Andrew M. Greeley in Commonweal, 1998 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 The New Ecclesiology of Vatican II Walbert Bühlmann, OFM (Cap.) 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. Vatican II: 40 years later Several items that appeared in the National Catholic Reporter in 2002 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. America, March 31, 2003 Vatican II: Substantive Teaching By Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J. America March 31, 2003 The Second Vatican Council Chapter 13, of A Time To Speak by Bishop B.C. Butler Vatican II - The Historical Context By Arthur Wells The Need for Vatican II The Pull of God in a Godless Age By Cardinal Dr. Franz König 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 LUMEN GENTIUM -- DOGMATIC CONSTITUTION ON THE CHURCH Document: ---- Vatican site ---- EWTN page ---- IntraText CT ---- Catholic Information Network page On the History and Significance of "Subsistit in" in the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium Paper by Br. Alexis Bugnolo Commemorating Lumen Gentium: A Short History By Brian Gleeson CP DEI VERBUM -- DOGMATIC CONSTITUTION ON DIVINE REVELATION Document: ---- Vatican site ---- EWTN page ---- IntraText CT ---- Catholic Information Network page "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 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 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 Studying Sacred Scripture in Two Dimensions: Reflections on Dei Verbum after Forty Years By Rabbi Baruch A. Levine The Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation: A Commentary Joseph Ratzinger (1967) The Rediscovery of the Word of God: The Second Vatican Council and the Dei Verbum By Claudio Ettl "For the Sake of Our Salvation": A Re-reading of Dei Verbum After 40 Years from an European Perspective By Daniel Kosch 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 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 and the Synoptic Gospels By Bernard Orchard, O.S.B. 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 The Obedience of Faith: Barth, Bultmann, and Dei Verbum By Daniel Gallagher of Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Journal for Christian Theological Research, 2006 Renewing Authority : The lesson of Dei verbum - Catholic Church and infallibility of Bible Article by Joseph Komoncha in Commonweal, Nov 19, 1999 Vatican II and The Bible By Robert Murray SJ 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 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 The Church in the Modern World: A 30-Year Perspective Kenneth R. Himes, O.F.M., Bishop James W. Malone, and Monika K. Hellwig, Woodstock Report, June 1995 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 The Subject of Gaudium et spes: Reclaiming a Christocentric Anthropology of the Human Person Talk by Gil Baile of The Cornerstone Forum Gaudium et spes and Catholic Ethics in Post-Industrial Economics: Indirect Employers and Globalization Talk by Albino Barrera, O.P. of Providence College Gaudium et Spes and Post-Conciliar Catholic Social Practice: Scrutinizing the Jesuit Experience in the Light of the Ascension Talk by Peter Bisson, S.J. of Campion College at the University of Regina Gaudium et Spes and the Struggle for Human Rights in Peru Talk by Mateo Garr, S.J. Transmission of the Catholic Social Teaching in Gaudium et spes: The Role of Seminaries in Preparing Knowledgeable Priests Talk by Sister Katarina Schuth, O.S.F., University of St. Thomas Pope John Paul II and the Christ-centered Anthropology of Gaudium et Spes By Douglas Bushman in Ignatius Insight AD GENTES -- DECREE ON THE MISSION ACTIVITY OF THE CHURCH Document: ---- Vatican site ---- EWTN page ---- IntraText CT ---- Catholic Information Network page 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 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 Paper 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 Dignitatis Humanae and Its Contribution To International Religious Freedom Since Vatican II Article 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 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 The Genesis of Nostra Aetate By Thomas Stransky, C.S.P., America OCTOBER 24, 2005 Nostra Aetate: A Continuing Challenge By Eugene J. Fisher Nostra Aetate : A Jewish View "From Disputation to Dialogue" By Rabbi Leon Klenicki Nostra Aetate: The Beginning of the Beginning By Philip A. Cunningham Unresolved issues and Suggested Solutions By Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor Nostra Aetate: 40 Years of Catholic-Jewish Ties By Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor, Director of Interfaith Affairs for the Anti-Defamation League The Interfaith Story behind Nostra Aetate Presentation on Nostra Aetate Christopher M. Leighton, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Nostra Aetate Symposium, December 7, 2005 Jews, Catholics celebrate Nostra Aetate National Catholic Reporter, Dec 9, 2005 by Tom Roberts Reflections on Covenant and Mission Forty Years after Nostra Aetate By John T. Pawlikowski, Cross Currents, Winter 2006-7 After 40 Years, Nostra Aetate's Christological Implications By Hans Hermann Henrix Forging an Incarnational Theology Two Score Years after Nostra Aetate By Jesper Svartvik "With Sincere Reverence": A Christological Perspective for the Interreligious Dialogue Envisioned by Nostra Aetate By Paolo Gamberini SJ 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 |
