Vatican II

John W. O'Malley, SJ, is one of the most highly respected and widely read Roman Catholic historians in the United States. He is the author of Four Cultures of the West (Harvard University Press) and The First Jesuits (Harvard University Press), among others. Stephen Schloesser, S.J., is associate professor of history at Boston College, USA. Joseph A. Komonchak holds the John and Gertrude Hubbard Chair in Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America, USA. Neil J. Ormerod is professor of theology at Australian Catholic University, Strathfield, N.S.W, Australia. David G. Schultenover, S.J., is professor of theology at Marquette University and editor-in-chief of Theological Studies.

• 1. Vatican II: Did Anything Happen? John W. O'Malley, SJ; 2. Against Forgetting: Memory, History, Vatican II Stephen Schloesser, SJ; 3. Vatican II as an "Event" Joseph Komonchak; 4. "The Times They Are a 'Changin'": A Response to O'Malley, Schloesser, and Komonchak Neil J. Ormerod.

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