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Second Vatican Council 1962-1965

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Texts and Translations

Documents of the II Vatican Council
Papal Encyclicals Online

Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils / edited by Norman P. Tanner
REF BX 825 A1 1990 (2 vols.)

Documents of Vatican II / edited by Austin P. Flannery
BX 830 1962 A3 F55

Documents of Vatican II: in a new and definitive translation / Walter M. Abbott, General Editor
BX830.1962 A3 G34 1966

Vatican II: the Essential Texts
BX830.1962 A3 T36 2012


II Vatican Council: full text search engine
 

 

Council Debates, Speeches, and Preparatory Documents

Acta Synodalia Sacrosancti
Lower Level BX 830 1962 A2 1970 (32 volumes plus Indices and Appendix)

Acta et Documenta
Lower Level BX 830 1962 A2 1964 (26 volumes – incomplete)

Council Speeches of Vatican II
BX 830 1962 A3 K84

 

Concordance, Dictionary, Indices

Concilium Vaticanum II
REF BX 830 1962 D45

Dictionary of the Council
REF BX 830 1962 A48 D47

Index Verborum Cum Documentis Concilii Vaticanii Secundi
Lower Level BX 830 1962 A48 O25 (2 vols.) 

 

General Works (See BX 830 1962...)

Commentary on the Documents of Vatican II
BX 830 1962 Z913 (5 vols.)

Concise Guide to the Documents of Vatican II
BX 830 1962 H285 2007

History of Vatican II
BX 830 1962 H55 (5 vols.)

Vatican II: Assessment and Perspectives: Twenty-Five Years After
BX830 1962 V3713 1988 (3 vols.)

Vatican II: bilan et perspectives: Vingt-Cinq Ans Apres
BX 830 1962 V37 1988 (3 vols.) 

Vatican II: the Complete History
BX830.1962 V38613 2015

 

Recent Works

Disputed Teachings of Vatican II: Continuity and Reversal in Catholic Doctrine / Thomas G. Guarino
BX830 1962 G87 2018

Enlightening the Mystery of Man: Gaudium et Spes Fifty Years Later
BX1751.3 E55 2018

Introduction to Vatican II as an Ongoing Theological Event / Matthew Levering
BX830 1962 L468 2017

Investigating Vatican II: Its Theologians, Ecumenical turn and Biblical Commitments / Jared Wicks
BX830 1962 W455 2018

The Reception of Vatican II / Matthew Levering  (online resource) 2017


The Second Vatican Council: Prehistory - Event - Results - Posthistory / Otto Hermann Pesch
BX1751.2 P39413 2014

 

Video

Faithful Revolution: Vatican II
BX 830 1962 F28 1996 (5 cassettes) 

 

Databases 

ATLA Religion Database

Religion and Philosophy Collection

 

Journals

Laval Theologique et Philosophique (online)
Note: Periodically since 1997 this journal has published annotated lists of major recent publications about the Council. Some articles include brief lists of dissertations, and important journal articles. See:

  • v.53, 1997: 435-454;
  • v.55, 1999: 115-149;
  • v.56, 2000: 543-583;
  • v.58, 2002: 177-203;
  • v.59, 2003: 583-606;
  • v.60, 2004: 561-577;
  • v.61, 2005: 613-653;
  • v.64, 2008: 783-824;
  • v.67, 2011: 321-373.

 

Websites

Centre for the Study of the Second Vatican Council
 

The Holy See


University of Notre Dame – Vatican II Collection
 

St. Paul University, Research Centre: Vatican II and 21st Century Catholicism
 

Vatican II – Voice of the Church

 

 

Updated December 2019