There are a number of works published at the time of the Council which record the Council’s day-to-day activities, and provide some analysis of these activities. These works often serve as a vernacular language index to the official Latin-language record in the Acta synodalia (listed above).
Letters from Vatican City: Vatican Council II (First Session): Background and Debates.The Second Session: The Debates and Decrees of Vatican Council II, September 29 to December 4, 1963.The Third Session: The Debates and Decrees of Vatican Council II, September 14 to November 21, 1964.The Fourth Session: The Debates and Decrees of Vatican Council II, September 14 to December 8, 1965.
Council Daybook.
Vatican II.
Le Concile au Jour le Jour, Deuxième Session.
L’Enjeu du Concile.
Il Concilio Vaticano II: Cronache del Concilio Vaticano II.
Vatican Diary: A Protestant Observes… Vatican Council II.
St. Peter's Basilica. Photo by Bob Tubbs. Public Domain. Wikimedia Commons
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