Fr. Brendan is presenting a weekly series that will lead us into a deeper understanding and appreciation for the workings of the Second Vatican Council. After trying to make sense of the context for the Council, we will read and work through the major documents that the Council Fathers promulgated. The series will conclude by looking at the impact of the Council on the life of our Church as we know it today.

Audio recordings of the sessions and the corresponding reading material are posted here each week!

Philip Gonzales: The Trajectory of Twentieth-Century Catholic Thought
Hans Urs von Balthasar: Retrieving the Tradition — COMMUNIO—A PROGRAM

Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald — Nostra Aetate: A Guide for Ongoing Dialogue

Thomas Joseph White, O.P.: Gaudium et Spes

Larry Chapp:
The Universal Call to Holiness

Andrew Meszaros: Revelation in George Tyrrell, Neo-Scholasticism, and Dei verbum

Reinhard Hütter:
The Development of Doctrine and Its Counterfeits

Guy Mansini: The Development of the Development of Doctrine in the Twentieth Century

Brandon Peterson:
A Case for Change — Reform and Church Teaching

The Theology of the Second Vatican Council: Syllabus

Pedro Arrupe: A Remembrance of Hiroshima

Roland Millare: The Spirit of the Liturgical Movement

John O'Malley: Vatican I -- Loss and Gain

Karl Rahner: The Need and Blessing of Prayer

Joseph Ratzinger: The New Pagans and the Church