After each session of Vatican II, Ratzinger wrote a booklet about the debates and developments at the Council.  These booklets were collected and published simultaneously in German, Italian, and English in 1966.  The edition I work from on this blog is Theological Highlights of Vatican II (Paulist Press: New York, 1966).

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  1. [...] Ratzinger wrote a popular report on what had happened, later published as the first section of Theological Highlights of Vatican II.  In that article, he stressed that the most important event of the first session is that the [...]


  2. [...] (1963-1966) Theological Highlights of Vatican II January 2010 1 comment 4 [...]

  3. Andrew Seeley Says:

    I recently read “Theological Highlights” and was surprised at (and refreshed by)many of his comments about the ecclesial environment prior to the Council. For example:

    “We shall have occasion later to show in more detail how the anti-Modernistic neurosis which had again and again crippled the Church since the turn of the century here seemed to be approaching a cure.  Here there emerged a new awareness of how the Church could conduct a dialogue in fraternal frankness without violating the obedience that belongs to faith.”  page 27

    Do you know whether he ever changed his view about this?

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