The Second Vatican Council: An Unwritten Story

The Second Vatican Council has transformed the way both Catholics and non-Catholics look at the Church. From claims of a Council in full continuity with Tradition, but which has merely been misinterpreted, to those who see in it a rupture with the integral whole of the past, the Second Vatican Council is still a subject of fiery debate. In the past, any critical review or discussion of the actual events which took place at the Council was brushed aside as a discussion untenable for a Catholic to hold. Now, from the discussions of the Society of St. Pius X to the books of Msgr. Gherardini, or the renewed interest in the work of Romano Amerio, this dicussion is now happening in a never-before seen way. In that vein, the renowned Italian historian, Roberto de Mattei takes up his pen to answer a question that has still not fully been answered, "What happened at the Council?" Sample Chapters: The Pontificate of Pius XII: Triumph or the Start of a Crisis? The Reactions to Neo-Modernism during the Pontificate of Pius XII Angelo Roncalli: Conservative or Revolutionary Italy "Opens" to the Left The Break With Council Procedures "Some Fresh Air in the Church" The Anti-Roman Party in the Second Session Why Doesn't Vatican II Speak of Hell? The Pacifist Appeal in the Council Hall 1968: The Revolution in Society The Secularization of the Liturgy These and many more are available in this learned and insightful work, The Second Vatican Council: An Unwritten Story. 598pp, Softcover.