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Article: Vatican II as ecumenical council: Yves Congar's vision realized.
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- November 22, 2002
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Noticing that the words "Vatican II" evoked no response in her high school students, an Irish nun recently told me she asked them what Vatican II was. After some time and with much hesitation, one of them asked: "Would that be the pope's summer residence?"
That we have just celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) reminds us that there are now two generations of Catholics for whom that pivotal event was not a personal experience. One way to recreate the experience of the council is to read the journals of participants or observers; there the drama of that gathering of the world's bishops may be caught, as it ...