AGORA XXI: BLOG OF THE COMMUNITY OF SAINT PAUL

IN DEPTH

THE CHURCH WE BELIEVE IN

In recognition of the 50 anniversary of the beginning of the Second Vatican Council, last year the Community of Saint Paul sponsored a series of talks on this important event together with Sacred Heart Parish in Racine. We offer here the last talk, given by Pere Cané, president of the Community of Saint Paul. 

Any attempt to talk nowadays about the Second Vatican Council presents several problems. The first one is that we should never assume that the documents have been read; the actual texts produced by the Council are little known.

The second problem would be that even in the case that the documents have been read, there is often a variety of ways that they are interpreted. Not just because of people’s own ideological stances, but also because the texts are not helpful in this regard, being some of them the result of a compromise between the two main tendencies present at the assembly, known as “the majority” and the “minority.”