Published by Image Books, $19. In Vatican II: The Essential Texts, Jesuit Fr. Norman Tanner edits the council documents and frames each with a brief but informative overview by Edward Hahnenberg, ...

The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II attempts a Herculean task. Part reference book, part introduction to a complex historical subject, part analysis of a still ongoing reception of the conciliar ...

His many books include Vatican II: The Crisis and the Promise. The Documents of Vatican II. There is no substitute for reading all 16 official documents of the Second Vatican Council.

For Mr. Weigel, author of “To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II” and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the work of the mid-’60s ecumenical council offers a ...

Those popes, along with Pope Saint Paul VI, who succeeded John XXIII in the middle of Vatican II’s tenure, “all made it quite clear that Vatican II must be interpreted in light of, and as an ...

(RNS) — Conservatives, reading Vatican II's documents like biblical fundamentalists, miss what it meant to participants. (RNS) — With the passage of 60 years since the opening of the Second ...

Sr. Becquart hopes that the book on Church Reforms will assist the reader to “foster relationships and put into practice synodality so that we become more and more a synodal Church in mission ...

The Irish-American who helped people understand Vatican II Francis X. Murphy, ... in an essay based on a new book called To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II. ...

Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and the ideological battles that followed the Second Vatican Council.

Pope Francis is calling for unity in the Catholic Church as he marks the 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation. Open Search.