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LINK+ is a consortial group of over 40 academic and public libraries throughout California and Nevada. Using your MyLMU login name and password, you can request LINK+ books when LMU does not own a copy or when our book is checked out. Books are delivered to LMU at no charge and arrive within 3 to 4 business days. Read more...
Pope John XXIII
Pope Paul VI / Giovanni (Cardinal) Montini when V2 started
Hans Küng
Karl Rahner
Paul-Emile Leger
Leo-Joseph Suenens
Christopher Butler
John Courtney Murray*
Henri De Lubac
Dom Helder Camara
Pierre Benoit
Marie-Dominique Chenu
Yves Congar
Jean Danielou
Josef Frings
Edward Schillebeeckx
Godfrey Diekmann
Denis E Hurley
Bernard Haring
Gregory Baum
Augustin (Cardinal) Bea
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Maxim Hermaniuk
Remi J De Roo
Joseph Ratzinger
Alfredo (Cardinal) Ottaviani
Karol Wojtyla
Eugene Tisserant
*Note: our dear departed Fr. Herb Ryan, S.J., played an important part as assistant to Fr. Murray, spiritual advisor/peritus to Cardinal Spellman, and later as important pioneer in Anglican-Roman Catholic ecumenical dialogue.
The Churches the Apostles Left Behind by A great American theologian looks at the faith history of the different centers of Christianity at the end of the Apostolic Era. A good book to read when starting to think about Christian ecumenicism.
St. Benedict (terracotta, life sized)
by Antonio Begarelli
Abbey Church of St. Peter, Modena
photo: T. Amodeo 2010
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Vatican Council II: the basic sixteen documents
Theological highlights of Vatican II
Rediscovering Vatican II
Dictionary of the Council by 
Commentary on the Documents of Vatican II by Council speeches of Vatican II by Third Session Council Speeches of Vatican II by Toward an Undivided Church. by 
Interior, Sant'Agostino, Modena
photo: T. Amodeo, 2010
Make a good guess and search by Keyword. You can search with a word or short phrase. You can narrow down too many results by combining your first word or phrase with another word or phrase, using AND as the connector. Or, you can expand the root of a word with an asterisk (*) to get all the variations of words beginning that way. For example:
John XXIII, pope of the century
Journey of a Soul by The Second Vatican Council: The story behind the Ecumenical Council of Pope John XXIII by 
The Council Notes of Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 by 
Statue of L. A. Muratori
Modena
