October 28 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the election of Angelo Roncalli as Pope John XXIII. Less than three months later he announced his plan to convene a council. After three years of preparatory work, the Second Vatican Council opened on October 11, 1962. As John O’Malley acknowledges, shelves “are filled to overflowing” with books of various genres about the wor (...)
February 27, 2009
Books
A Change Some Don't Believe In
What Happened at Vatican IIJohn W. O’MalleyHarvard University Press, $29.95, 400 pp.
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