Study the significance and impact of the Second Vatican Council with the Paulist Press Vatican II Collection. Modern scholars and theologians, including Pope Benedict XVI and Maureen Sullivan, examine the contemporary Church in light of Vatican II. Trace the theological developments that led to that pivotal moment in Church history. Assess what work remains unfinished and how the modern Church can continue the liturgical reforms of the Council. Together these volumes provide insight into the Council’s influence on theology, spirituality, and Catholic social thought.

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Still Interpreting Vatican II proposes three phases of investigation. First, a hermeneutical inquiry must determine the meanings intended by the authors of Vatican II’s documents by reconstructing the “spirit” of the documents in the context of their conciliar debates and committee work. Second, a hermeneutic of the texts must look at issues of genre, structure, rhetoric, intratexuality, and intertextuality—all of which are significant in reconstructing the “letter” of the Council. Third, the ef...

Walking Together on the Way is the first agreed statement of the third phase of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, and the first ARCIC agreed statement since 2005.