When the Second Vatican Council formally ended on Dec. 8, 1965, theologians and scholars immediately undertook a new (and ongoing) task: interpreting the council and providing the faithful with the ...
This article is part of the Register Symposium on Vatican II at 60. If Vatican II is an ongoing theological event, as I argued in a 2017 book, then it has now been ongoing for 60 years. For most ...
Editor's Note: This article is part of the Register’s symposium on Vatican II at 60. In the world of academia one can still find scholars working on the Wirkungsgeschichte (history of how texts have ...
"Vatican II did not drop out of the sky," writes Michael Sean Winters. "There were three essential precursors to St. John XXIII's decision in 1959 to announce he was calling an ecumenical council." ...
(RNS) — My heart goes out to the seminarians who are going through the current trauma of change under Pope Francis, because I went through the same trauma after Vatican II. (RNS) — Sixty years ago, ...