Decoding Vatican II: Interpretation and Ongoing Reception

by Catherine E. Clifford

Fifty years on, Catholics are confronted with competing narratives concerning the event of the Second Vatican Council as well as the meaning and value of its teachings. How are we to make sense of the various characterizations of the council, often in polemical tones, as a disastrous departure from tradition, a disappointing compromise, or a moment of measured reform? All agree that Vatican II marks a "big turn" in the history of Catholicism marked...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809148579
• ISBN13: 9780809148578
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.4" x 6.3"