About This Issue

As we continue to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, we offer a selection of essays on the council and its implementation. The assembled essays are drawn from participants of the conference, “The Lived History of Vatican II,” sponsored by the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame held April 24–26, 2014. That conference represented the capstone of a three-year project of the same name, directed by Kathleen Sprows Cummings, Timothy Matovina, and Robert Orsi. They are editing a volume of essays prepared by project fellows, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.

Michael A. Skaggs is a doctoral candidate in the department of history at the University of Notre Dame. Jennifer A. Callaghan is a doctoral candidate in the department of religious studies at Northwestern University. John C. Seitz is assistant professor of theology and associate director of the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University, New York. Katrina M. Sanders is associate professor of educational policy and leadership studies at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Federico M. Requena is a lecturer in contemporary church history and historiography in the School of Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.

Agnes de Dreuzy, adjunct professor of church history at the Catholic University of America, is the reviewer of Luca Castagna’s A Bridge Across the Ocean: The United States and the Holy See Between the Two World Wars.