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The Sixteen Conciliar Documents

The Documents of Vatican II with Notes and Comments by Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox Authorities by Walter M. Abbott (Editor)
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 A3A33 1966; Electronic: BX 830 1962 .A3 G3 1989.
ISBN: 0832911151
Publication Date: 1974-10-01
Conciliorum oecumenicorum decreta by Giuseppe Alberigo (Editor); Hubert Jedin (Editor)
Call Number: Print: BQV 11 C45C6 1973.
Publication Date: 1973
Vatican Council II by Austin P. Flannery(Editor)
Call Number: BQV 12 1962 A3E5F5 1992
ISBN: 9780918344151
Publication Date: 1992
Vatican Council II by Austin Flannery (Editor)
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 A3E5F5 1975-1982; Electronic: BX 830 1962 .A3F55 1975.
ISBN: 0950479705
Publication Date: 1975-01-01
Documents of the Second Vatican Council by Second Vatican Council (Author/Creator)
Published on Vatican the website.
The sixteen documents of Vatican II and the Instruction on the liturgy by Second Vatican Council (Author/Creator)
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 A3S59 1966.
Publication Date: 1966
Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils by Norman P. Tanner (Editor)
Call Number: Print: BQV 11 C45C6E5T2 1990; Electronic: BX 825 .A1990.
ISBN: 0878404902
Publication Date: 1990-06-01

Commentaries on the Council Documents — Earliest Commentaries by Participants

Commentary on the documents of Vatican II by Herbert Vorgrimler (Editor)
Call Number: Print: Reference BQV 12 1962 Z6V67C6 1967-1969. 5 vols. Electronic: BX 830 1962 .C5713 1967.
Publication Date: 1967-

Commentaries on the Council Documents — Commentaries by Theologians Who Collaborated in Redaction

L'Eglise dans le monde de ce temps : constitution pastorale Gaudium et Spes by Yves Congar, Michel Peuchmaurd and Philippe Delhaye.
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 G382F7 1966.
Publication Date: 1967
Dignità della persona : testo e commento della dichiarazione conciliare sulla libertà religiosa Dignitatis humanae by Pietro Pavan
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 D543P38D5 1980.
Publication Date: 1980
La dichiarazione conciliare Dignitatis humanae a 20 anni dalla pubblicazione by Pietro Pavan
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 D543P28D5 1986.
Publication Date: 1986
L'Eglise et son mystère au IIe Concile du Vatican : histoire, texte et commentaire de la constitution "Lumen gentium" by Gérard Philips (Author)
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 L83P55 1967- 1968.
Publication Date: 1967-
De divina revelatione : the dogmatic constitution on divine revelation of Vatican Council II, promulgated by Pope Paul VI, Nov. 18, 1965 by George H. Tavard and Second Vatican Council
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 D453T39 1966.
Publication Date: 1966
Le Décret sur l'oecuménisme : commentaire doctrinal by Gustave Thils
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 U53T45D4 1966.
Publication Date: c1966

Commentaries on the Council Documents — Newer Commentaries Addressing Post-conciliar Reception

Rediscovering Vatican II Series

Evangelization and Religious Freedom: Ad gentes, Dignitatis humanae by Stephen B. Bevans; Jeffrey Gross
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 A53B48E8 2009.
ISBN: 9780809142026
Publication Date: 2008-11-01
Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue: Unitatis redintegratio, Nostra aetate by Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 U53C28E3 2005.
ISBN: 0809143380
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
Religious Life and Priesthood: : Perfectae caritatis, Optatam totius, Presbyterorum ordinis by Marvanne Confoy
Call Number: Print: BX 1912 C668 2008.
ISBN: 9780809144549
Publication Date: 2008-07-01
Liturgy: Sacrosanctum Concilium by Rita Ferrone
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 S23F47L5 2007.
ISBN: 9780809144723
Publication Date: 2007-11-01
The Church in the Making: Lumen Gentium, Christus Dominus, Orientalium Ecclesiarum by Richard R. Gaillardetz
Call Number: Print: BQT 128.5 G25C48 2006.
ISBN: 9780809142767
Publication Date: 2006-11-01
The Laity and Christian Education: apostolicam actuositatem, gravissimum educationis by Dolores R. Leckey
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 A663L43L2 2006.
ISBN: 9780809142200
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
The Church and the World: Gaudium et spes, Inter mirifica by Norman Tanner
Call Number: Print: BX 830 1962 .A45 C9796 2005.
ISBN: 0809142384
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
Scripture: Dei Verbum by Ronald D. Witherup
Call Number: Print: BQX 1134 W58S37 2006.
ISBN: 9780809144280
Publication Date: 2006-11-01

Other Commentaries

Herders theologischer Kommentar zum Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil by Peter Hünermann, Bernd Jochen Hilberath, and Guido Bausenhart (Editors) Bd. 1. Die Dokumente des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils : Konstitutionen, Dekrete, Erklärungen : lateinish-deutsche Studienausgabe / herausgegeben von Peter Hünermann -- Bd. 2. Sacrosanctum concilium / kommentiert von Reiner Kaczynski. Inter mirifica / kommentiert von Hans-Joachim Sander. Lumen gentium / kommentiert von Peter Hünermann -- Bd. 3. Orientalium Ecclesiarum / kommentiert von Bernd Jochen Hilberath. Unitatis redintegratio / kommentiert von Bernd Jochen Hilberath. Christus Dominus / kommentiert von Guido Bausenhart. Optatam totius / kommentiert von kommentiert von Ottmar Fuchs und Peter Hünermann. Perfectae caritatis / kommentiert von Joachim Schmiedl. Gravissimum educationis / kommentiert von Roman A. Siebenrock. Nostra aetate / kommentiert von Roman A. Siebenrock. Dei Verbum / kommentiert von Helmut Hoping -- Bd. 4. Apostolicam actuositatem / kommentiert von Guido Bausenhart. Dignitatis humanae / kommentiert von Roman A. Siebenrock. Ad gentes / kommentiert von Peter Hünermann. Presbyterorum ordinis / kommentiert von Ottmar Fuchs und Peter Hünermann. Gaudium et spes / kommentiert von Hans-Joachim Sander -- Bd. 5. Die Dokumente des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils : theologische Zusammenschau und Perspektiven / von Guido Bausenhart... [et al.].
Call Number: Print: Reference BQV 12 1962 Z6H47H8 2004-2006. 5 vols.
ISBN: 9783451285301
Publication Date: c.2003-c.2006
Vatican II - Assessment and Perspectives by Rene Latourelle (Editor)
Call Number: Print: BQT 129 V28L28 1988- 1989. 3 vols.
ISBN: 0809104121
Publication Date: 1988-07-01
Commentario ai document del Vaticano II by Serena Noceti and Roberto Repole (Editors)
ISBN: 9788810408452
Publication Date: c.2014-c2018
1. Sacrosanctum concilium, Inter mirifica -- 2. Lumen gentium -- -- 4. Christus Dominus, Optatam totius, Presbyterorum ordinis -- 5. Dei Verbum -- 6. Ad gentes Nostra aetate Dignitatis humanae -- 7. Perfectae caritatis, Apostolicam actuositatem, Gravissimum educationis -- 8. Gaudium et spes.

Concordances

Concilium Vaticanum II : concordance, index, listes de fréquence, tables comparatives by Philippe Charles Delhaye; Michel, Guéret; Paul Tombeur (Authors)
Call Number: Print: BQX 1134 D44C6 1974.
Publication Date: 1974
Indices verborum et locutionum decretorum Concilii Vaticani II. by Istituto per le scienze religiose di Bologna; Second Vatican Council (Authors/Creators) v. 1. Constitutio Sacrosanctum Concilium -- v. 2. Decretum Inter mirifica -- v. 3. Constitutio dogmatica Lumen Gentium -- v. 4. Decretum Orientalium Ecclesiarum -- v. 5. Decretum Unitatis redintegratio -- v. 6. Decretum Christus Dominus -- v. 7. Decretum Perfectae Caritatis - v. 8. Decretum Optatam totius -- v. 9. Declaratio Gravissimum educationis -- v. 10. Declaratio Nostra aetate -- v. 11. Constitutio dogmatica Dei Verbum - v. 12. Decretum Apostolicam actuositatem -- v. 13. Declaratio Dignitatis humanae -- v. 14. Decretum Ad Gentes divinitus -- v. 15. Decretum Presbyterorum ordinis -- v. 16. Constitutio pastoralis Gaudium et Spes.
Call Number: Print: BQX 1134 I53I88 1968- . 16 Vols.
Publication Date: 1968-
Index et Concordance: Vatican II by G. Pelloquin; Henri Tardif (Authors)
Call Number: Print: BQX 1134 T37I5 1969.
Publication Date: c1969

Dictionaries

Diccionario de los textos conciliares : Vaticano II by Angel Torres Calvo; Second Vatican Council (Authors)
Call Number: Print: BQX 1134 T67D5 1968. 2 vols.
Publication Date: 1968
Dictionary of the Council by Jacques Deretz; Adrien Nocent (Authors)
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 Z6D4S9E5 1968.
Publication Date: 1968
Synopse des textes conciliaires by Jacques Deretz; Adrien Nocent (Authors)
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 Z6D4S9 1966.
Publication Date: 1966
Diccionario del Vaticano II by Miguel Angel Molina Martinez (Author)
Call Number: Print: BQX 1134 M65D5 1969.
Publication Date: 1969
Diccionario teológico del concilio Vaticano II by José Ramón Villar Saldaña (Author)
Call Number: Print:
ISBN: 9788431330927
Publication Date: 6-11-2015

Official Council Proceedings — The Acta Synodalia, Related Synopses and Speeches in Translation

The Acta Synodalia

Acta et documenta Concilio Oecumenico Vaticano II apparando. Series I: Antepraeparatoria.
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 A2 1960-. Electronic: https://bit.ly/36D3nWE.
Publication Date: 1960-
Series I. (Antepraeparatoria) v. 1. Acta Summi Pontificis Ioannis XXIII. v. 2. Consilia et vota episcoporum ac praelatorum (8 v.) Appendix (2 v.). v. 3. Proposita et monita SS.Congregationum Curiae Romanae. v. 4. Studia et vota universitatum et facultatum ecclesiasticarum et catholicarum (3 v.) Index.
Acta et documenta Concilio Oecumenico Vaticano II apparando. Series II: Praeparatoria.
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 A2 1960-. Electronic: https://bit.ly/3pO2FNR.
Publication Date: 1960-1962
Series II. (Praeparatoria) v. 1. Acta Summi Ponticificis Ioannis XXIII. v. 2. Acta Commissionis Centralis Praeparatoriae Concilii Oecumenici Vaticani II. (4 v.) v. 3. Acta Commissionum et Secretariatuum Praeparatoriorum Concilii Oecumenici Vaticani II (2 v.) v. 4. Acta Subcommissionum Commissionis Centralis Praeparatoriae Concilii Oecumenici Vaticani II.
Acta synodalia Sacrosancti Concilii Oecumenici Vaticani II.
Call Number: Print: Folios BQV 12 1962 A2 1970-. Electronic: https://bit.ly/39IL7x4.
Publication Date: 1970-1999
v. 1. Periodus prima (4v.) -- v. 2. Periodus secunda (6v.) -- v. 3. Periodus tertia (8v.) -- v. 4. Periodus quarta (7v.) -- v. 5. Processus verbales (1v.) -- v. 6. Acta secretariae generalis (4v.) -- Appendix -- Appendix altera -- Indices.
Acta synodalia Sacrosancti Concilii Oecumenici Vaticani II. Indices.
Call Number: Print: Folios BQV 12 1962 A2 1970- IND.
Publication Date: 1980
Acta synodalia Sacrosancti Concilii Oecumenici Vaticani II. Appendix.
Call Number: Print: Folios BQV 12 1962 A2 1970- APP. Electronic: https://archive.org/details/ASAp1.
Publication Date: 1983
Acta synodalia Sacrosancti Concilii Oecumenici Vaticani II. Appendix altera.
Call Number: Print: Folios BQV 12 1962 A2 1970- APP ALTERA. Electronic: https://archive.org/details/ASAppendix2.
Publication Date: 1986

Synopses by Francisco Gil Hellín

Constitutio de sacra liturgia, Sacrosanctum Concilium by Second Vatican Council (Author); Francisco Gil Hellín (Editor)
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 A2P65 1995-.
ISBN: 9788820975241
Publication Date: c2003
Constitutio dogmatica de divina revelatione, Dei verbum by Second Vatican Council (Author); Francisco Gil Hellín (Editor)
Call Number: Print:
ISBN: 9788820919139
Publication Date: 1993
Constitutio dogmatica de ecclesia, Lumen gentium by Second Vatican Council (Author); Francisco Gil Hellín (Editor)
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 A2P65 1995-.
ISBN: 8820920530
Publication Date: 1995
Constitutio pastoralis de ecclesia in mundo huius temporis, Gaudium et spes by Second Vatican Council (Author); Francisco Gil Hellín (Editor)
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 A2P65 1995-.
ISBN: 9788820975234
Publication Date: c2003
Declaratio de Ecclesia habitudine ad religiones non-christianae, Nostra aetate, by Second Vatican Council (Author); Francisco Gil Hellín (Editor)
Call Number: Print::
ISBN: 9788883333064
Publication Date: 2013
Declaratio de educationis, Gravissimum educationis by Second Vatican Council (Author); Francisco Gil Hellín (Editor)
Call Number: Print
ISBN: 9788883337413
Publication Date: 2018
Declaratio de libertate religiosa, Dignitatis humanae by Second Vatican Council (Author); Francisco Gil Hellín (Editor)
Call Number: Print:
ISBN: 9788883332197
Publication Date: 2009
Decretum de accommodata renovatione vitae religiosae, Perfectae caritatis by Second Vatican Council (Author); Francisco Gil Hellín (Editor)
Call Number: Print:
ISBN: 9788883336164
Publication Date: 2016
Decretum de activitate missionali Ecclesia, Ad Gentes. by Second Vatican Council (Author); Francisco Gil Hellín (Editor)
Call Number: Print:
ISBN: 9788883334368
Publication Date: 2015
Decretum de apostolatu laicorum, Apostolicam actuositatem by Second Vatican Council (Author); Francisco Gil Hellín (Editor)
Call Number: Print:
ISBN: 9788883335181
Publication Date: 2015
Decretum de ecclesiis orientalibus catholicis Orientalium Ecclesiarum by Second Vatican Council (Author); Francisco Gil Hellín (Editor)
Call Number: Print:
ISBN: 9788883338045
Publication Date: 2019
Decretum de institutiones sacerdotali, Optatam totius by Second Vatican Council (Author); Francisco Gil Hellín (Editor)
Call Number: Print:
ISBN: 9788883337109
Publication Date: 2018
Decretum de oecumenismo, Unitatis redintegratio by Second Vatican Council (Author); Francisco Gil Hellín (Editor)
Call Number: Print: BQV 12 1962 A2P65 1995-.
ISBN: 9788820977931
Publication Date: c2005
Decretum de pastorali episcoporum munere in ecclesia, Christus Dominus by Second Vatican Council (Author); Francisco Gil Hellín (Editor)
Call Number: Print:
ISBN: 9788883332968
Publication Date: January 1, 2013
Decretum de presbyterorum ministerio et vita, Presbyterorum ordinis by Second Vatican Council (Author); Francisco Gil Hellín (Editor)
Call Number: Print:
ISBN: 9788820921613
Publication Date: 1996

Council Speeches in Translation

Council speeches of Vatican II by Hans Küng (Editor); Yves Congar,(Editor); and Daniel O'Hanlon. (Editor)
Call Number: Print: BQX 1134 K85C6 1964.
Publication Date: c1964
Third session Council speeches of Vatican II by William K. Leahy (Editor); Anthony T. Massimini (Editor)
Call Number: Electronic: BX 830 1962 .A3L4 1966.
Publication Date: 1966