Massimo Faggioli: 10 books
John XXIII
The Medicine of Mercy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
People of God is a brand new series of inspiring biographies for the general reader. Each volume offers a compelling and honest narrative of the life of an important twentieth or twenty-first century Catholic. Some living and some now deceased, each of these women and men have known challenges and...
True Reform
Liturgy and Ecclesiology in Sacrosanctum Concilium
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
For Massimo Faggioli, the debate about the meaning of Vatican II too often misses the profound significance of that council's first and perhaps most consequential document, Sacrosanctum Concilium. The result is a misunderstanding of both the council as a whole and the liturgical reform that followed...
A Council for the Global Church
Receiving Vatican II in History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The year 2015 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council. this volume provides an analysis of Vatican II, the most decisive and far-reaching event in the modern Catholic Church. Explicating pivotal elements of the Council, its decision-making process and the deep consequences...
Pope Francis
Tradition in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Captures some special moments and some key issues at the heart of the transition from Pope Benedict XVI to Francis, with the intuition that this unexpected transition reveals something which is not only a special "Catholic event," but also a particular historical moment in a tradition in flux.
The Rising Laity
Ecclesial Movements since Vatican II
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
An analysis of the new ecclesial movements from an historical and transatlantic perspective (Europe-USA).
Catholicism and Citizenship
Political Cultures of the Church in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
The beginning of the twenty-first century has provided abundant evidence of the necessity to reexamine the relationship between Catholicism and the modern, global world. This book tries to proceed on this path with a focus on the meaning, legacy, and reception in today’s world of the ecclesiology...
by Massimo Faggioli
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A balanced presentation of the councils key issues and their interpretation by major theologians and church historians at work in global Catholicism.
Sorting Out Catholicism
A Brief History of the New Ecclesial Movements
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Focolare, Community of Sant’Egidio, Neocatechumenal Way, Legionaries of Christ, Communion and Liberation, Opus Dei. These are but a few of the most recognizable names in the broader context of the so-called ecclesial movements. Their history goes back to the period following the First Vatican Council,...
La onda larga del Vaticano II
Por un nuevo posconcilio
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
La elección de Francisco, el 13 de marzo de 2013, no solo cambió el paisaje de la Iglesia, sino también el debate sobre el Vaticano II. Es el primer papa posterior al Vaticano II que no participó en él, se formó durante el Concilio y el primer posconcilio, y fue ordenado sacerdote en 1969. El...
by Massimo Faggioli
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Este artículo trata de la cuestión de la Curia romana en tres momentos fundamentales: el Concilio Vaticano II (fase preparatoria y celebración), el pontificado de Pablo VI (especialmente Regimini Ecclesiae Universae de 1967) y el pontificado de Juan Pablo II (sobre todo Pastor bonus de 1988)....