More Light on Vatican Council II

Abstract

This report continues what began in late 2006 in a first installment that surveyed recent scholarly work on Vatican II and then treated in detail three recent books on the Council.1 Here I present four works: first, two editions of personal accounts by Council participants, and, second, two major monographs tracing the genesis of Vatican II documents—namely, Christus Dominus, on the pastoral office and ministry of bishops, and Gaudium et spes, on the Church’s response, framed by the centrality of Jesus Christ, to issues presented by major developments and problems in the modern world.2