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Pope Benedict XVI Is Ambivalent About the Second Vatican Council

January 2008

The Pope says that he was "too timid" in the period immediately after Vatican II in challenging avant-garde theological positions.

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Grand Detours From the Second Vatican Council

A RESPONSE TO JOHN LAMONT

Robert Sungenis

October 2005

One of Vatican II's major problems was that its message of altruistic love and spiritual freedom was given to a society on the verge of cutting loose most of its social mores.

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Why the Second Vatican Council Was a Good Thing

RESPONDING TO THE NEW OXFORD REVIEW

John Lamont

July/August 2005

Council Fathers insisted the texts be framed in ways that harmonized with Catholic tradition, and the texts explicitly state they are meant to be interpreted that way.

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The Second Vatican Council: Why Pope John XXIII Would Weep

HOW DID WE GET OFF COURSE?

Alice von Hildebrand

July/August 2004

Innumerable Catholics have lost sight of the privilege they have received and shy away from proclaiming the glory of the one true Church.

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The Second Vatican Council: What’s the Big Deal?

AN HISTORICAL OVERESTIMATION?

Eric Jackson

The Church was already in a state of turmoil in the years prior to Vatican II, even if much of the turbulence was not obvious at the time.

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