LibGuides: Vatican II: Debates

Council Debates and Speeches

Acta synodalia Sacrosancti Concilii Oecumenici Vaticani II.
Call Number: BX830 1962 .A2 1970 (Oversized Books)

Rome: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1970-1999. 32 volumes.
This work is the official record of the Council’s business. It includes the full-text of all speeches (almost always in Latin). Also included are submissions made in writing to the Council’s various secretariats and commissions. The index volume allows one to find the debates on a particular document as well as the speeches by a particular council father. A guide to this work appears in Revue théologique de Louvain 11 (1980): 325-351.
Council Speeches of Vatican II.
Call Number: BX830 1962.A3 K8

[First and Second Sessions.] Edited by Hans Küng, Yves Congar, and Daniel O'Hanlon.
Glen Rock, NJ : Paulist, 1964.
English translations of a selection of the most influential speeches from the first three sessions of the Council.
Third Session Council Speeches of Vatican II.
Call Number: BX830 1962 .A3 L4

Edited by William K. Leahy and Anthony T. Massimini.
Glen Rock, NJ: Paulist, 1966.
English translations of a selection of the most influential speeches from the first three sessions of the Council.

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