Clare Monagle will offer a cultural history of the Second Vatican Council within the post-Freudian psychological revolution of the twentieth century. She will argue that the language of Vatican II is infused with concepts of personhood and subjectivity that insist on the importance of the personal and intimate life of the Catholic, including the Priest. She will suggest that its model of human flourishing must be understood as part of the therapeutic turn that occurs across western modernity after Freud, and which gains particular traction after the second world war. Massimo Faggioli will explore the significant change in the historiographical and theological narratives on the Second Vatican Council: from an event made by great men - priests and bishops - to an event made also by other actors both in the Vatican when the council took place and locally around the world. This is important not only to track the trajectories of the literature on Vatican II, but also to understand how the Catholic views of priesthood and ordained ministry have changed and what this means for the future of the theology of Vatican and of the Catholic Church.