The Second Vatican Council turns sixty this year. From the archive, three authors consider modernity, the formation of the council’s great men, and competing hermenuetics.
FROM THE DECEMBER 2015 ISSUE

Reckoning with Modernity

BRUCE D. MARSHALL

Vatican II probably saved the Catholic Church from an uncontained explosion on the scale of the Protestant Reformation. 
FROM THE MAY 2007 ISSUE

Theology After the Revolution

R. R. RENO

Theologians can innovate to their hearts’ content, but without a standard theology the total effect of our efforts is far less than the sum of its parts.
FROM THE NOVEMBER 2012 ISSUE

The Tridentine Genius of Vatican II

THOMAS JOSEPH WHITE

Progressivist Catholics’ hermeneutic of suspicion has blocked any possible appeal to final authority.
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