Council, Controversy, Conversion, and Communion Six-Week Course on the Second Vatican Council

Council, Controversy, Conversion, and Communion Six-Week Course on the Second Vatican Council
October 5, 2021
7:00pm - 11:59pm
Virtual
Tuesday nights at 7 PM PT (San Francisco) on October 5, 12, 19, 26, November 2, 9

The Second Vatican Council remains controversial in some Catholic circles.  Many people see it as involving a radical break from the Catholic past, for good or bad. Others, such as the popes since the Council, see it as a renewal and reform of the one-and-the same Catholic Church.

This is mini-course covering the main teachings of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).  It also examines how the Council’s teaching has been received, misperceived, and resisted, as well as how it has shaped Catholic life and mission in the last half-century.

Tuesday nights at 7 PM PT (San Francisco) on October 5, 12, 19, 26, November 2, 9


Course Schedule


Session 1 (October 5): Getting Started







  • Why Vatican II?

  • What Vatican II Really Said: An Overview of Vatican II and Common Myths about It

  • Why It Matters Today

  • Reading for the next session: Sacrosanctum Concilium (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy)


Session 2 (October 12): Working on Worship: Reform of the Liturgy (Sacrosanctum Concilium)



  • Liturgical worship: how and why did Vatican II “reform” the Liturgy?

  • Key ideas of Vatican II on Liturgy

  • Common Myths about Vatican II and the Mass

  • Reading for the next Session: Dei Verbum (Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation)


Session 3 (October 19): It’s a Revelation (Dei Verbum)

  • How God talks to us and our response to him

  • The Catholic Church, Tradition, and the Bible (Is the Catholic Church ‘biblical’?)

  • The Church goes to Bible Study

  • Reading for the next session: Lumen Gentium (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church)


Session 4 (October 26): Figuring Out the Church (Lumen Gentium)



  • Mysterious Church, and Catholics, other Christians, other believers, and non-believers

  • Hierarchy, laity, everyone called to holiness, and religious life

  • The Pilgrim Church and Mary in the Mystery of Christ and the Church

  • Reading for the next session: TBD


Session 5 (November 2): The Other Things (Decrees and Declarations)



  • Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches

  • Bishops, Priests, Laity, Religious Life, Ecumenism, Missions, and the Church and Non-Christians

  • Social Media, Christian Education, and Religious Freedom

  • Reading for the next session: Gaudium et Spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World)


Session 6 (November 9): The Church in the World as it is Today (Gaudium et Spes) and the Enduring Legacy of Vatican II



  • The Church and humanity

  • Some problems: marriage and family, culture, economics, politics, war and peace

  • The Legacy of Vatican II: the past, the present, and the future







Website: http://sfarch.org/vaticanii
Council, Controversy, Conversion, and Communion Six-Week Course on the Second Vatican Council
October 5, 2021
7:00pm - 11:59pm
Virtual
Deacon Fred Totah