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4 - The Council as Ecclesial Process

from Part I - Vatican II in Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2020

By
Massimo Faggioli
Edited by
Richard R. Gaillardetz
Richard R. Gaillardetz
Affiliation:
Boston College, Massachusetts
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Summary

The chapter addresses the procedural aspects of the Second Vatican Council with a comparison to the preceding councils (Trent and Vatican I), and through an analysis of the different kinds of membership of the council: the council fathers, the periti, the commissions, and the informal groups. The final part explains the rules for drafting, voting, and approving documents, and examines the fundamental differences between the Second Vatican Council and other legislative, parliamentary assemblies.

Keywords

RulesProcedureRepresentationDecision-makingActors at Vatican II
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The Cambridge Companion to Vatican II , pp. 62 - 77
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Further Reading

Alberigo, Giuseppe and Komonchak, Joseph A., eds., History of Vatican II. 5 vols. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1995–2006.Google Scholar
Alberigo, Giuseppe. Transizione epocale: Studi sul Concilio Vaticano II. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2009.Google Scholar
Congar, Yves. My Journal of the Council. Translated by Ronaye, Mary John and Boulding, M. Cecily. Edited by Minns, Denis. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Faggioli, Massimo. Il vescovo e il concilio: Modello episcopale e aggiornamento al Vaticano II. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2005.Google Scholar
Faggioli, Massimo and Melloni, Alberto, eds. Repraesentatio: Mapping a Keyword for Churches and Governance. Berlin: LIT, 2006.Google Scholar
Levillain, Philippe. La mécanique politique de Vatican II: La majorité et l’unanimité dans un concile. Paris: Beauchesne, 1975.Google Scholar
Melloni, Alberto, ed. Vatican II: The Complete History of Vatican II. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2015.Google Scholar
Oakley, Francis. The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church, 1300–1870. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
O’Malley, John W. Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.Google Scholar
O’Malley, John W. Trent: What Happened at the Council. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.Google Scholar
O’Malley, John W. What Happened at Vatican II. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.Google Scholar
Sieben, Hermann Josef. Katholische Konzilsidee im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Paderborn: Schöning, 1993.Google Scholar

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