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Vatican Two (1962-1965)
This website celebrates the Second Vatican Council and its promise for the future of the Catholic Church. 

It is dedicated to the spirit of Pope John XXIII who dared open the doors and windows of the church he loved to the contemporary world. By this courageous act he allowed sunlight and rain to feed the foliage and roots of the increasingly petrified tree of the Fortress Church.

Links to interpretations of
Vatican II

Andrew Greeley
THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL- OCCURRENCE OR EVENT? TOWARDS A SOCIAL HISTORICAL RECONSIDERATION

Organizations and Movements that claim to be faithful to Catholic teachings and practice but do not in fact follow some of the most essential Catholic principles as enunciated by Vatican II
CUF CATHOLICS UNITED FOR THE FAITH

Church documents at variance with the
teachings of Vatican II 

Pope Benedict XIV
ON JEWS AND CHRISTIANS LIVING IN THE SAME PLACE (A Quo Primum), Encyclical of Pope Benedict XIV promulgated on June 14, 1751.
Pope Pius IX
CONDEMNING CURRENT ERRORS (Quanta cura), Encyclical of Pope Pius IX, 8 December 1864.
Pope Pius X
SYLLABUS OF ERRORS CONDEMNING THE ERRORS OF THE MODERNISTS(Lamentabili sane), 3 July 1907.

Links to documents of Vatican II 
(Vatican site)

Voices of opposition to the beatification of Pope Pius IX
Doing Theology in the spirit of Vatican II
  • Response by Stephen A. Privett, S.J., President of the University of San Francisco, to the charges made on the website of Friends of the St. Ignatius Institute.
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    Resources to help investigate the institutional sources of the  pedophile crisis(August 2003)

    SECRETARIUM* 
    *A secretarium is a remote, ecret, hidden place.  It can be a judge's council chamber or an ecclesiastical conclave.



    Statements of support for Archbishop Rembert Weakland
    (May 2002)

    From the moment the news concerning Archbishop Weakland and Paul Marcoux broke, members of the Vatican2 mailing list spontaneously expressed their respect, love, and support for the embattled archbishop.

    I have asked permission to post some of the letters here.  Any additional letters of support should be sent to me at ihs@ionet.net.  I will add them to this page. 
     

     
    The Vaticanum Secundum domain is not associated with any organization, though it is linked to the official site of the Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church which I also maintain. 
    The logo is a merging of video stills taken at the Abbey of Melk in 1994, a public recorder concert in front of St. Jakob's Cathedral in Innsbruck in 1998, a Star Island sunrise in 1993, and a portrait of Pope John XXIII. 
    Posted 4 September, 2000
    last revised 24 July, 2005
    e-mail address: ihs@ionet.net

    Text and images © Ingrid H. Shafer 2000-2005
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