Vatican II: Changed our Church ... Changed our World

Contains the actual texts of the 118 addresses made by the United States' bishops in the Council.

Foreword / John W. O'Malley -- The proclamation of the Council (1959-1962) -- Toward a conciliar consciousness (1962) -- The Council matures (1963) -- The Church is a communion (1964) -- The faith lives within history (1965) -- For the renewal of Christianity.

The Popes of the Twentieth Century -- The Church and modernity -- Vatican Council II -- The identity and mission of the Church -- The Church and authority -- The Church and the other religions -- The Church and the other Christians -- The Church and eucharistic worship -- The Church and social justice -- The Church and sexual ethics -- The Church and Mary -- Postscript.

Locating the "beginning" of the story -- Planning a Council -- A brief history of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen gentium) -- A brief history of the Decree on the Pastoral Office of Bishops in the Church (Christus Dominus) -- A brief history of the decree on the Catholic Churches of the Eastern Rite (Orientalium ecclesiarum) -- Theological foundations of the Church -- The unity and Catholicity of the Church -- Church office and the exercise of leadership -- Theological foundations of the Church -- The unity and Catholicity of the Church -- Church office and the exercise of leadership -- Theological foundations of the Church -- The unity and Catholicity of the Church in a postmodern world -- Church office and the exercise of leadership.

Translation of Le journal du Concile [Vatican II].

The legacy of anti-modernism -- Dominican and Jesuit pioneers -- The Vatican Council: early stages -- The Vatican Council: a new vision -- The Church of the poor in Latin America -- The Church in conflict -- Radicals and liberals in the Philippines and South Africa -- Democracy and nationalism in Africa -- Inculturation and dialogue with Islam -- A global Church in the twenty-first century.

Pastor et nauta, shepherd and navigator -- Family, youth, and seminary (1881-1904) -- Early priesthood and Rome (1904-15) -- The Great War and after (1915-25) -- Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey (1925-45) -- France and Venice (1945-58) -- Election and first days (October-December 1958) -- The first year (January-December 1959) -- A unique Pontificate (January-December 1960) -- World in Crisis (January 1961-September 1962) -- Aggiornamento, Si! (October 1962) -- A new pentecost? (November-December 1962) -- Peace on Earth (January-April 1963) -- Finis (May-June 1963) -- The good pope and his great council.

Choice Outstanding Academic Books, 1996.
v. 1. Announcing and preparing Vatican Council II. -- v. 2. The formation of the Council's identity, first period and intersession, October 1962-September 1963 -- v. 3. The mature Council, second period and intersession, September 1963-September 1964 -- v. 4. Church as Communion : third period and intersession, September 1964-September 1965 -- v. 5. The Council and the transition, the fourth period and the end of the Council, September 1965-December 1965.

Translation of Konzil im Zeichen der Einheit.

Catholic history from Vatican I to John Paul II / Adrian Hastings -- Councils in Christian history / Michael J. Walsh -- Pius XII / Michael J. Walsh -- John XXIII / Peter Hebblethwaite -- The history of the council / Michael J. Walsh -- Paul VI / Peter Hebblethwaite -- The key texts / Adrian Hastings -- Liturgy (Sacrosanctum Concilium) / Aidan Kavanagh -- Revelation (Dei Verbum) / Robery Murray -- The Church (Lumen Gentium) / Richard P. McBrien -- The Church in the modern world (Gaudium et Spes) / Edna McDonagh -- Ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio) / Tom Stransky -- Religious freedom (Dignitatis Humanae) / James Tunstead Burtchaell -- Other religions (Nostra Aetate) / Donald Nicholl -- Eastern Catholic Churches (Orientalium Ecclesiarum) / Robert F. Taft -- Bishops, Presbyterate and the training of priests (Christus Dominus; Presbyterorum Ordinis; Optatam Totius) / Denis E. Hurley -- The Apostolate of the laity (Apostolicam Actuositatem) / Kathleen Walsh -- Religious life (Perfectae caritatis) / Sandra M. Schneiders -- Missionary activity (Ad Gentes) / Aylward Shorter -- The media (Inter Mirifica) / Michael E. Williams -- Education (Gravissimum Educationis) / V. Alan McClelland -- The Curia / Peter Hebblethwaite -- The Secretariat for promoting Christian unity / Tom Stransky -- The Secretariat for non-Christians / Aylward Shorter -- Justice and peace / Joseph Gremillion -- The International Theological Commission / Walter H. Principe -- The Synod of Bishops / Peter Hebblethwaite -- The revision of Canon Law / Ladislas Örsy -- Unfinished business / F.J. Laishley -- Devotion / Margaret Hebblethwaite -- The state of the priesthood / Michael Gaine -- The Society of Jesus / Peter Hebblethwaite -- The place of women in the church / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Marriage and sexuality / Theodore Daver -- Abortion / James Tunstead Burtchaell -- Homosexuality / Timothy C. Potts -- Marian apparitions / C.J. Maunder -- The conservative reaction / Michael J. Walsh -- Church and state / Dermot Keogh -- War and the nuclear dilemma / Brian Wicker -- Africa / Patrick A. Kalilombe -- Latin America / Enrique Dussel -- North America / Gerald P. Fogarty -- Australia and New Zealand / Elizabeth Isichei -- Eastern Europe / Grazyna Sikorska -- Western Europe / Jan Kerkhofs -- Great Britain and Ireland / V. Alan McClelland -- India and Sri Lanka / Benny M. Aguiar -- The Philippines / Mary John Mananzan -- Ecumenical relations / George H. Tavard -- Catholic theology in the post-conciliar period / John McDade -- John Paul I / Peter Hebblethwaite -- John Paul II / Peter Hebblethwaite -- An outsider's evaluation / Edward Norman.

The theological setting of the Vatican Council -- The mystery of the Church -- The people of God -- The hierarchy -- The Church and the kingdom -- The religious in the Church -- The mystery of the Church in the liturgical constitution.

Translation of Het tweede Vaticaans Concilie.
The third session -- The gains from Vatican II -- Reflections on the final results of the Council.

Discourses given at the Institute on Religious Freedom, organized by the Bellarmine School of Theology of Loyola University.

Original title: II Concilio comincia adesso.

Translation of Vatikaans Concilie en nieuwe theologie.

Preface to the English edition -- Part one: The first session. Opening of the Council and election of commissions -- First debates on the Liturgy Schema -- Early debate on revelation -- Last phase of the first session. -- Part two: The second session. Preliminary notes -- Work begins : the debate on the Church -- Practical questions : bishops' conferences, bishops' council and curial reform -- Interlude : the mariological question -- The question of ecumenism -- The achievements of the second session -- Afterword. -- Part three: The third session. The fall of 1964 -- The Council at the close of the session -- Ecumenical problems involved in the teaching on Episcopal collegiality -- Concluding remarks. -- Part four: The fourth session. Opening of the session and the New Synod of Bishops -- The first topic of debate : religious liberty -- The struggle over schema 13 -- The Council's two final discussions -- The last phase of the Council -- Epilogue.

A revised version of the author's earlier books covering the 4 sessions of Vatican Council II.

[1] 1962; a Protestant observes the first session of Vatican Council II.--[2] 1963; a Protestant observes the second session of Vatican Council II--[3] 1964; a Protestand observes the third session of Vatican II.--[4] 1965; a Protestant observes the fourth session of Vatican Council II.

Explaining the Council -- Collective effervescence and the Holy Spirit: the eventful first session -- Who wanted what and why at the Second Vatican Council? Toward a theory of religious change -- How culture mattered at Vatican II: collegiality trumps authority in the Council's "social movement organizations" -- The case studies -- The declaration on religious freedom: ceding power, gaining legitimacy -- The Blessed Virgin Mary: the toughest fight of the Council -- The Council's failure to liberalize birth control: lackluster progressive effort meets a hesitant Pope.

Vatican II as an "event" / Joseph A. Komonchak -- Vatican II : did anything happen? / John W. O'Malley -- Against forgetting : memory, history, Vatican II / Stephen Schloesser -- "The times they are a-changin'" : a response to O'Malley and Schloesser / Neil J. Ormerod

The implications of Vatican II's understanding of church -- The communion ecclesiology of Joseph Ratzinger: implications for the church of the future / Philip A. Franco -- "Reception" or "subversion" of Vatican II by the Asian churches? A new way of being church in Asia / Peter C. Phan -- The laity and Catholic action in John Courtney Murray's vision of the Church / Christopher D. Denny -- Vatican II and the role of women / Harriet A. Luckman -- Scripture after Vatican II: revelation and symbol, history, and postmodernism / Alice Laffey -- Dei Verbum: its historic break from curial "theology" and its subsequent official use / Francis Holland -- Vatican II's ecclesiology and the sexual abuse scandal / Jason King -- The Catholic Church engages the modern world -- Straining toward solidarity in a suffering world: Gaudium et Spes "after forty years" / Christine Firer Hinze -- Greening Gaudium et Spes / William French -- Changing views on the relation of Christ and the state: Vatican II and John Paul II / Victor Lee Austin -- Catholic teaching on war, peace, and nonviolence since Vatican II / John Sniegocki -- The encounter with other Christians and other religions -- Vatican II and the twentieth century's "conciliar renaissance" / Elaine Catherine MacMillan -- Bridge or boundary? Vatican II and other religions / Paul F. Knitter -- Interreligious Prudentia: wisdom from Peter Lombard for the post-conciliar Church / Reid B. Locklin -- Heir or orphan? Theological evolution and devolution before and after Nostra Aetate / Elena Procario-Foley -- Catholic evangelicals and ancient Christianity / Phillip Luke Sinitiere.

The twenty-two chapters of this volume present a diverse set of interpretations of the documents of Vatican II.

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2009.
Big perspectives on a big meeting -- The long nineteenth century -- The Council opens -- The first period (1962): the lines are drawn -- The second period (1963): a majority prevailing -- The third period (1964): triumphs and tribulations -- The fourth period (1965): bringing the ship into port.