The Long Shadow of Vatican II: Living Faith and Negotiating by Lucas Van Rompay,Sam Miglarese,David Morgan

By Lucas Van Rompay,Sam Miglarese,David Morgan

With the second one Vatican Council (1962–65), the Roman Catholic Church for the 1st time took a good stance on modernity. Its impression at the suggestion, worship, and activities of Catholics around the world was once huge, immense. taking advantage of a part century of insights received because Vatican II ended, this quantity focuses squarely at the ongoing aftermath and reinterpretation of the Council within the twenty-first century. In 5 penetrating essays, individuals research the most important concerns on the middle of Catholic existence and identification, essentially yet no longer completely inside of North American contexts. On a broader point, the quantity as an entire illuminates the consequences of the unconventional alterations made at Vatican II at the lived faith of daily Catholics.

As framed by way of quantity editors Lucas Van Rompay, Sam Miglarese, and David Morgan, the book's lengthy view of the church's slow and sometimes contentious transition into modern occasions profiles a church and laity who look dedicated to many mutual values yet consider that implementation of the adjustments agreed to in precept on the Council is way from finished. The election in 2013 of the charismatic Pope Francis has extra yet one more measurement to the quest for the which means of Vatican II.

The participants are Catherine E. Clifford, Hillary Kaell, Leo D. Lefebure, Jill Peterfeso, and Leslie Woodcock Tentler.

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