Religious Freedom, Morality and Law: John Courtney Murray Today by David Hollenbach

“…His influence can be seen in Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae and on the later thought of John Paul II and Benedict XVI’s affirmations of Murray’s insistence on religious liberty. …”
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THE PERIPHERIES AND THE EUCHARIST: POPE FRANCIS, THE TEOLOGÍA DEL PUEBLO, AND THE CONVERSION OF CATHOLIC BIOETHICS by M. Therese Lysaught

“…The many predictions fail to appreciate the full power of Francis’ deeply sacramental and ecclesial vision. In­formed by Vatican II and the Argentinian teología del pueblo, Pope Francis locates the sacramental work of Christ in two constantly interacting poles — the Eucharist and the peripheries. …”
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Information challenges of the Second Vatican Council and the development of the institutional communication of the Holy See by José María Díaz-Dorronsoro

“…This article provides an overview of how the Vatican II information services dealt with such challenges.…”
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Christology and the Christian Life by Paul J. Wadell

“…Pulling pre-Vatican II moral theology out of its "crisis" is no easy task: a moral theology rooted in dry manuals, a negative, law-based approach focusing on sin rather than virtue, centered on priests in the confessional could no longer be sustained. …”
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The Inequality of Unwritten Languages by R. E. S. Tanner

“…The fact that a language is written as opposed to be only spoken makes for an unequal equality and this is the issue we discuss in this article. The Vatican II resolution allowing the use of vernaculars in the liturgy has to be seen as a vital turning point in the functions of Christianity in many cultures outside the western world. …”
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“You Are a Priest Forever”: The Dual Sacramentality and Humanity of Andean Roman Catholic Priests in Talavera, Peru by Christine Lee

“…Although such initiatives are generally associated with liberal parishes unlike Talavera, the nouvelle theology that shaped Vatican II nevertheless meant that the dual nature of the Roman Catholic priesthood—as concretely human but also ineffably sacramental—fundamentally shapes the lay relationship with the Catholic priests in Talavera, too. …”
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Misyjny wymiar duchowości Świętej Teresy od Dzieciątka Jezus by Zofia Kaczmarek

“…Teresa of the Infant Jesus is juxtaposed with the teaching of the Church, represented by Vatican II and Redemptoris Missio John Paul II. …”
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Arrêt sur image : un diocèse du Nordeste brésilien à la veille du Concile by Richard Marin

“…July 1, 1957, the murder of the Bishop of Garanhuns (Pernambuco) by one of his priests acts as a dramatic revealing of Church realities of the Brazilian Northeast, five years before Vatican II. This “sacrilegious crime that shocked the world” according to a local daily also expresses the gap between the ultramontane culture of a conscious bishop concerned by reform and that of the clergy’s accommodating Catholicism, very reluctant to go under the yoke of standardization as advocated by Rome. …”
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The "Signs of the Times" and their Readers in Wartime and Peace by Laurie Johnston

“…While the phrase of reading “the signs of the times” has been labeled as a motto of Vatican II, its methodology is, to say the least, controversial. …”
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The Governments of Arias Navarro and the Catholic Church (1974-1975) by Pablo Martín de santa Olalla Saludes

“…In it the Church-State could have been decisive the numerous years of tension since was finishing Council Vatican II. Nevertheless,the renewal or update of the Concordat of 1953, and therefore of the union the Church-State, they were not finally possible due to the decisive intervention of the Cardinal Tarancón and of his principal collaborators inside the Episcopal Spanish Conference. …”
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A history of the «History of Theology» by Josep Ignasi Saranyana

“…The first university textbooks begans in the thirties of the last century (Martin Grabmann, Luigi Allevi and Fulbert Cayre). After Vatican II, who insisted on an contextualized statement of theological subjects, "history of theology", as a theological discipline, has taken a higher profile in the curricula of theological centers. …”
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Round Table Discussion: Just Peacemaking--The Changing Vision of “Just Peace” in Catholic Social Tradition by Lisa Sowle Cahill

“…Justice and peace are interdependent. In the post-Vatican II Catholic ethics of war and peace, strong emphasis has been given to nonviolent means of correcting injustice, while the validity of armed force has become increasingly marginal, especially in papal teaching. …”
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The Roman Catholic conceptualisation of morality: Its essence and distinctive character by Stephen J. Pope

“…The early medieval church conceived morality primarily in terms of caritas and other virtues, the modern church generated a legalistic conception of morality, and the post-Vatican II church proposes a relational conception of morality. …”
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El peso del integrismo en la Iglesia y el catolicismo español del siglo xx by Feliciano Montero

“…It should be viewed in the context of a long process of confrontation between the Catholic church and modernity and secularism, running from the anti-liberal intransigence of the Syllabus of 1864 to the Vatican II declaration on religious freedom. This article briefly outlines the course of that struggle, in the Spanish case, of fundamentalism against «accidentalism», highlighting particular points of tension: with accidentalism and the «unionist» proposals encouraged by the policy of Leo III in the 1880s and 1890s; with the more «populist» impulses from social Catholics, decried as «social modernists»; with the accidentalist and possibilist strategy of Tedeschini, Vidal i Barraquer and Ángel Herrera during the Second Republic; and lastly, with the conciliar «aggiornamento» and its impact in favour of a democratic regime.…”
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Beijing and the Vatican by Andrew P. Lynch

“…This article argues that the differing viewpoints on religious freedom found in the Catholic Church’s Vatican II documents, and China’s 1982 Constitution, are the origin of these tensions. …”
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Przepowiadanie apostolskie w tajemnicy objawienia Bożego by Janusz Królikowski

“…The teaching of Christ and the Apostles is the key element of the revelation of God. Vatican II clearly connected the events and the words in the mystery of the revelation of God in the Dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum, and later enhanced the importance of the explanatory word of which a proclamation is the special form. …”
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Relational Priesthood in the Body of Christ: A Scriptural, Liturgical, and Trinitarian Approach by Kimberly Hope Belcher, Christopher M. Hadley

“…A liturgical phenomenology of Roman Catholic priesthood based on the experience of images of priests and people in scripture and liturgy lends itself to a renewed appropriation of Vatican II and post-conciliar approaches to priesthood. …”
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La retorica come strumento teologico. Una lettura del Dominus vobiscum di Pier Damiani by Lorenzo Saraceno

“…Dominus Vobiscum (letter 28) is undoubtedly one of Peter Damian’s most original works, and has experienced a renewed interest thanks to the re-emergence of the ecclesiology of communion around Vatican II, but in-depth studies of the work as a whole are missing and its sources seem quite limited. …”
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Constitución pastoral Gozo y Esperanza: memoria y profecía ((Pastoral Constitution, Joy and Hope: Memory and Prophecy) - DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2011v9n24p1301 by Alberto Parra

“…</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong><strong>: </strong>Church. Vatican II. <em>Gaudium et Spes.</em></p><p><em><br />- DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2011v9n24p1301<br /></em></p>…”
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O Vaticano II na prática da igreja particular de Goiás - DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2011v9n24p1341 by Tomás Balduíno

“…</p><p><strong>Abstrat</strong></p><p>This article written by Archbishop Tomás Balduíno presents the impact of Vatican II in the particular Church of Goiás, emphasizing that the loyalty to the Council produced effective participation of priests, religious and lay people. …”
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