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The Disputed Teachings of Vatican II: Continuity and Reversal in Catholic Doctrine is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) radically shook up many centuries of tradition in the Roman Catholic Church. This book by Thomas Guarino, a noted expert on the sources and methods of Catholic doctrine, investigates whether Vatican II’s highly contested teachings on religious freedom, ecumenism, and the Virgin Mary represented a harmonious development of—or a rupture with—Catholic...

at a time of obvious crisis. There was no need for a Barmen-like declaration, a unique status confessionis. Because of this historical context, the council did not need to stress Catholicism’s difference from and discontinuity with other churches, other religious faiths, or other points of view. That kind of dialectical approach was foreign to it, having been discouraged by John XXIII from the outset. At every turn, Vatican II sought to emphasize the significant points of contact between Catholicism
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