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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.

Vatican II's Call to Communicate the Gospel

READING THE DOCUMENTS - PART II

Christopher Zehnder

The Church as "sacrament" is not an optional means to salvation; she is the necessary "instrument of intimate union with God and of the unity of all mankind."

Liturgical Reform Did Not Start with Vatican II

Arthur C. Sippo

The history of liturgical reform that led to the promulgation of the New Mass predated Vatican II by several decades.

Pope Benedict XVI Is Ambivalent About the Second Vatican Council

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

The Fever of Vatican II

ALL FOR NAUGHT

Chris Conlee

One goes to a New Order Mass to receive the Eucharist, since it is a valid rite, but one does not go for its beauty or splendor.

Grand Detours From the Second Vatican Council

A RESPONSE TO JOHN LAMONT

Robert Sungenis

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.

Why the Second Vatican Council Was a Good Thing

RESPONDING TO THE NEW OXFORD REVIEW

John Lamont

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.

The Second Vatican Council: Why Pope John XXIII Would Weep

HOW DID WE GET OFF COURSE?

Alice von Hildebrand

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

Can the Pope Overrule A Vatican II Document?

When it comes to liturgy, Gabe Huck would get the Most Despised Man in America Award.

Is Vatican II Ancient History?

"What might have happened if, instead of Karol Wojtyla, the conclave had chosen a different man, someone who took the name Pius XIII?

Why Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Liberty Does Not Violate Catholic Tradition

A RESPONSE TO MICHAEL DAVIES

Andrew Tardiff

Michael Davies’s own book reveals there is no contradiction.

Growing Up As a "Post-Vatican II Catholic"

I WAS ROBBED

Leila Miller