Gaudium et Spes

Contains all the major documents of the Second Vatican Coucil in a revised translation.

In this first book of the new CUA Press series Sacra Doctrina, Matthew Levering leads his readers to see the Council as a “theological event”—a period of confirming and continuing God's self-revelation in Christ into a new historical era for the Church.This is an introduction to Vatican II with a detailed summary of each of its four central documents—the dogmatic constitutions—followed by explanations of how to interpret them.

This volume is a sequel to Matthew Lamb and Matthew Levering's Vatican II: Renewal within Tradition.

The Second Vatican Council was called to address the Church's relationship to the modern world. The past 50 years have seen some confusion over the interpretation and implementation of the documents from those historical sessions. Join Fr. John Trigilio for an EWTN home video series which clearly and unambiguously explains each of the 16 documents of Vatican II and their relevance to our daily live.