Vatican II in Plain English - the Collection (For copies of the individual books, click here and see below.)

The Second Vatican Council met from 1962 through 1965 and is the most significant event in the last 400 years of Christian history. It changed the face of the Roman Catholic Church forever and dramatically affected all the people of the world.

Author and theologian Bill Huebsch has provided a thorough and thoroughly readable telling of the story of Vatican II.

Book #1 - The Council: This volume describes the Church on the eve of the council, gives an easy-to-read version of the opening speech of John XXIII and other speeches, provides a chronology of major events in Vatican II's unfolding story, lists all previous church councils, and offers biographies of key players at Vatican II, as well as a summary of each document.

Book #2 - The Constitutions: This volume paraphrases the texts of the four constitutions--on the liturgy, the Church, divine revelation, and the Church in the modern world--in easily readable sense lines and invites the reader to better understand and internalize the message of the council fathers in a spirit of reverence, prayer, and reflection.

Book #3 - The Decrees and Declarations: Bill Huebsch provides paraphrase texts in sense lines of the nine decrees and three declarations of the council. Known for an ability to make theology accessible to lay readers, Mr. Huebsch makes the documents read like poetry.