Second Vatican Council

The Second Vatican Council, or Vatican II, was an Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church opened under Pope John XXIII in 1962 and closed under Pope Paul VI in 1965.

External links

Vatican texts

• Overview of the Decrees of the Council
• Vatican II Texts from the Eternal Word Television Network
• Vatican II Texts from the Vatican
• Vatican II Texts from Christus Rex

Comment

• Leo Darrach, The Development of the Mass since 1960
• Xavier Rynne, The New Yorker, 25 December 1965, "Letter from Vatican City"
• Why was Vatican II needed? Why we need it today.
• What did the Second Vatican Council do for us?
• After the Council: Living Vatican II
• Open Windows: Why Vatican II Was Necessary
• Vatican II through the eyes of the pre-eminent English-speaking Council Father
• To Whose Competence Does It Belong to Interpret Vatican II?
• Traditional Catholic Practices, Pre-Vatican II and Today
• What Hath Vatican II Wrought?
• By the Time We Got to Woodstock: Vatican II and "The Spirit of Woodstock"
• The Spirit of Vatican II, Jubilee Optimism, and the Oath against Modernism
• The Neo-Modernist Rupture in the Council and in the New Rites, Part I
• Part II: The Incommutability of Ecclesiastical Tradition
• Vatican II and the Correlation-Causation Fallacy
• Making the True Vatican II Our Own