Second Vatican Council
The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the or , addressed relations between the Catholic Church and the modern world. The council, through the Holy See, was formally opened under the pontificate of Pope John XXIII on 11 October 1962 and was closed under Pope Paul VI on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on 8 December 1965.
Roberto de Mattei
Among de Mattei's most recent publications is a history of Vatican Council II ("Il Concilio Vaticano II. Una storia mai scritta", Lindau, Turin 2010) wherein, without touching onto the theological debate on the hermeneutics of the Council, he suggests an historical view on the event which is antithetical to that proposed by the School of Bologna. Reviewers have noted the book's "archival discoveries from the ultra-traditionalist Lefebvrians" and its new information concerning the role of the traditionalist Coetus Internationalis Patrum at the Council. They also described it as "critically flawed", however, for its denigration of the Council's presiding Popes, John XXIII and Paul VI, and of the Council members who followed their reform agenda, as following a "conspiracy-driven Lefebvrian interpretation" and "essentially useless" for developing an understanding of Vatican II. It has been translated into English as "The Second Vatican Council - An Unwritten Story" with Michael M. Miller as editor.