New in Commonweal

Fifty years after the close of the Second Vatican Council, you might think we already know everything important there is to know about the Council, its history, and its teaching. Drawing new insights from evidence that has been available for decades, David L. Schindler and Nicholas J. Healy Jr. have authored a notable new book on the process that led to Dignitatis Humanae, the Council’s Declaration on Religious Freedom, and the contents of that historic document.

Here’s my review of that book, which appears in the current issue of Commonweal magazine.