December 8, 2025, is quickly approaching, a date marking the sixtieth anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965. “A budding teenager at the time, I paid scant attention to the event, not realizing that it would dominate most of my life. As with many theologians, I have spent most of my career studying the council, explaining its documents, and entering into the debates that the great synod ignited.” One is bewildered when articles call the council into question, insisting it had been the work of theological revolutionaries hell-bent on remaking the Church in the image of the modern world.
