History of Vatican II: Church as Communion: The Third Session and Intercession, October 1964-September 1965

by Giuseppe Alberigo, Joseph Komonchak

Overview

This fourth volume of the History of Vatican II reconstructs the work of the Council during the third session, which was to produce two of the most significant conciliar texts, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church and the Decree on Ecumenism. As with previous volumes an international team of scholars tracks the daily progress of the assembly and its numerous assisting bodies. Using sources from all the Council's groups, as well as an unprecedented acquisition of previously unpublished documents, they provide the reader with a rich, multidimensional knowledge of the event that more than any other shaped the Roman Catholic Church. The enthusiasm of the two previous sessions had given way to a greater awareness of the vastness of the conciliar task. The general desire on the part of the bishops to conclude the Council with this third session added to the pressure from many sides to produce significant results. The agenda thus included many complex issues in various schemas, and none surrounded by more tension than the question of collegiality, which was the source of passionate debate in the previous session.

Other issues to be taken up by the Council included discussions and votes on sections on eschatology and the Blessed Virgin Mary in the schema on the Church; on the care of souls in the schema on the pastoral role of bishops; an entirely new text on divine revelation; declarations on religious freedom and on the Jews in the schema on ecumenism, and two entirely new schemas on the lay apostolate and on the Church in the modern world. Many conciliar fathers were disappointed by events during the last days of this session (the "Black Week," some called it), and this created even greater interest in what would be the fourth and final session of Vatican II.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570751547
Publisher:	Orbis Books
Publication date:	01/28/1999
Pages:	650
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.90(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	XI
	Abbreviations and Sources	XV
	Sources and Archives	XIX
I.	Toward an Ecclesiology of Communion
I.	Introduction	1
A.	Expectations and Tensions	1
B.	Lines of Force	3
C.	The Opening Ceremony	7
D.	The Pope's Opening Speech	8
II.	A Profile of Participants	10
A.	The Conciliar Fathers	10
B.	The Council Leadership	10
C.	The Conciliar Commissions	12
D.	The Experts	12
E.	The Press and Secrecy	14
F.	The Observers	15
G.	The Laity: Men - and Women	19
H.	Pastors	27
III.	The Agenda, New Rules, and the Question of the Duration of the Council	28
A.	The Agenda	28
B.	The New Rules	30
C.	Would the Council End with the Third Session?	32
IV.	The Constitution on the Church	37
A.	The Voting Plan	38
B.	Votes and Discussions	40
1.	Would the Constitution be "Dogmatic"?	41
2.	Chapter I	42
3.	Chapter II	43
4.	Chapter IV	45
5.	Chapters V and VI	46
6.	Chapter VII	49
7.	Chapter VIII	52
V.	Chapter III: Episcopacy and Collegiality	62
A.	The Campaign during the Intersession	64
B.	The Pope Comes under Pressure	66
C.	The Reports in the Conciliar Hall	72
D.	The Individual Votes on Chapter III	76
E.	The War of the Modi	78
F.	Initial Interventions by Pope Paul VI	84
VI.	The Schema on Bishops	86
II.	Two sensitive issues: religious freedom and the jews
	Introduction	95
I.	Religious Freedom	96
II.	Jews and Other Non-Christians	135
III.	The October Crisis	166
III.	The doctrinal and the pastoral: the text on divine revelation
I.	Prehistory and Approach to the Problem	196
II.	The Revised Schema on Divine Revelation	198
III.	The Debate during the Third Session of the Council	203
A.	The Controversy over the Idea of a "Living, Dynamic, and Comprehensive Tradition"	203
B.	Revelation: "A Communication in Which God Makes Himself Known"	210
C.	The Disputed Question of the Sufficiency of Scripture	215
D.	Inspiration, Interpretation, and the Scriptures in the Chruch's Life	219
E.	"In this Hall we are exalting sacred scripture and not tradition"	226
IV.	The council discovers the laity
I.	"The Laity are not Simply in the Church; they are the Church"	234
II.	A Call to All the Faithful--Bishop Hengsbach's Report	236
III.	The Irreplaceable Task Proper to the Laity	240
IV.	"A Very Dynamic and Varied Movement"	244
V.	"A text by Clerics for Clerics"?	251
VI.	"So That Human Beings Can Live as Humans and as Christians" Joseph Hoffner	257
VII.	The Conclusion of the Discussion	261
V.	The church in the world (ecclesia ad extra)
I.	Church and World	270
A.	Developments before October 20	270
B.	The Debate in the Council Hall, October 20 to November 10	277
1.	The Reports of Cento and Guano	279
2.	The Debate on the Schema as a Whole (October 20-23)	281
3.	Debates on the Individual Parts of the Schema	295
a.	The Vocation of Humanity (Introduction and Chapter I)	295
b.	The Church and Christian Conduct (Chapters II and III)	297
c.	The Responsibilities of Christians (Chapter IV as a Whole)	302
d.	Human Dignity (Chapter IV, Articles 19 and 20)	303
e.	Marriage and the Family (Chapter IV, Article 21)	306
f.	Culture (Chapter IV, Article 22)	313
g.	Economic and Social Life (Chapter IV, Article 23)	316
h.	Human Solidarity and the Speech of James Norris (Chapter IV, Article 24)	318
i.	Peace and War (Chapter IV, Article 25)	322
j.	Concluding Speeches on Chapter IV	324
k.	The Speech of Juan vasquez	325
4.	The Concluding Speech of Bishop Guano	325
5.	Conclusion	326
6.	Some Press Reactions	328
II.	Missionary Church	331
A.	The Pope's Intervention	333
B.	The Reports of Agagianian and Lokuang	337
C.	The Debate in the Council Hall (November 6 to 9)	339
III.	Priestly Ministry and Formation	345
A.	The Life and Ministry of Priests	346
1.	Developments before October 13	346
2.	The Debate in the Council Hall	347
3.	Marty's Concluding Report	353
4.	Voting and Aftermath	355
B.	Priestly Formation	356
1.	The Discussion in the Council Hall	357
2.	Voting and Aftermath	364
IV.	Religious Life	364
V.	Towards a Fourth and Final Period	369
VI.	Paul VI's Gift of His Tiara	372
VII.	A Text on Marriage	377
VIII.	The Church of the Poor Group and Lercaro's Report on Poverty	382
VI.	The "Black Week" of Vatican II (november 14-21 1964)
I.	How the Event Unfolded in the Council Hall	388
F.	Friday, November 20, 1964	393
II.	The Declaration on Religious Liberty	395
A.	Suggestions for a Mixed Commission	396
B.	The Schema on Religious Liberty during the Black Week	397
C.	More Procedural Problems and Maneuvering	399
D.	A Sampling of Reactions	401
E.	The Role of Paul VII	404
F.	Was the Suspension of the Vote "Providential"?	405
III.	The Decree on Ecumenism	406
A.	Three Interventions of Paul VI	406
B.	The Distribution of the Nineteen Changes and the Initial Reactions	411
C.	The Origins of the Modi	412
D.	The Role of Paul VI	413
E.	The Effects of the Modi on the Final Text	415
F.	The Effects on the Delegated Observers	416
IV.	The Nota Explicativa Praevia	417
A.	Act I: The Debate within the Papal Chambers	417
1.	Solutions Proposed by the Minority	418
2.	The Majority's Defense of the Doctrine	420
4.	Paul VI's Attitude	424
B.	Act II: The Hidden Debate	428
1.	The Sequence of Events	428
2.	The Majority's Case	429
3.	New Responses to the Minority	431
4.	The Response of Paul VI	432
C.	The Origins of the Nota Explicativa Praevia	432
1.	The Content of the NEP	436
2.	Reactions and Judgements	438
3.	The Role of Paul VI	443
V.	Mary as Mother of the Church	445
A.	Some Important Antecedents	446
B.	The Declaration of Mary as Mother of the Church	446
VI.	Conclusions	448
A.	Some Initial Reactions to the Week	448
B.	Personalities and Procedures	450
C.	Effects of the Four Episodes	452
VII.	The intersession: preparing the conclusion of the council
I.	The Rhythms of the Conclusion	453
A.	Comments on and Reactions to the Third Period	453
B.	The Promulgated Documenst	463
C.	Unresolved Problems	469
D.	New Forms of Ecumenical Dialogue	473
E.	The Journey of Paul VI to India	477
F.	Proposals for the Schedule and Agenda of the Final Period	482
1.	Times and Modalities	486
2.	The Non-Decisions of the Governing Bodies	490
II.	Paul VI in Action	494
A.	The New Cardinals	494
B.	Relations with Other Christians	496
1.	The World Council of Churches	496
2.	The Orthodox Begin to Move	498
C.	The Pope and the Schemas	502
III.	The Work of the Commissions	505
A.	Reorganizing the Work	505
B.	The Doctrinal Commission and the Mixed Commission for Schema XIII	513
1.	The Schema on Revelation	514
2.	The Mixed Commission for Schema XIII	518
C.	The Secretariat for Christian Unity	531
1.	The Schema on Rligious Freedom	533
2.	The Schema on Non-Christian Religions and the Statement on the Jews	546
D.	The Other Commissions	559
1.	The Commission for the Lay Apostolate	559
2.	The Commission for the Discipline of the Clergy and the Christian People	566
3.	The Commission for the Missions	573
4.	The Commission for the Religions	584
5.	The Commission for the Seminaries, Studies, and Catholic Eduction	590
6.	The Commission for Bishops	597
E.	The Inspection of the Schemas by the Coordinating Commision	601
IV.	Observers Near and Far	606
A.	The Activity of the World Council of Churches	606
B.	The Creation of the Secretariat for Nonbelievers	608
C.	The Communist World at Vatican II: Condemnation or Silence?	612
VIII.	Major results, shadows of uncertainty
I.	The Results	617
II.	The General Context	621
III.	The Novelties	623
IV.	The Contribution of the Observers	631
V.	Tensions and Uncertainties	632
VI.	The Future of the Council and the First Signs of Reception	637
	Index of Names	641
	Index of Themes	661