After the end of the Second Vatican Council, signs of a paradigm shift in the monastic Benedictine tradition began to appear through the reception of the Council's decisions and the birth of new communities. As part of the research work on the post-Council promoted by FSCIRE in Bologna, the contribution aims to investigate how the Second Vatican Council was received, reinterpreted, implemented or contested within the benedictine family on a transnational level. Particular attention is given to events, to personal or collective stances, to informal or institutional groups that contributed to the pastoral, theological or social reformulation of the monastic identity. The aim is to reconstruct where, when, how and thanks to which figures the renewal promoted by the Council emerged in the Benedictine world and has operated since 1965. This approach helps to overcome a Eurocentric perspective in post-conciliar historiography, opening to the analysis of monastic experiences in non-European contexts such as Asia, Africa and South America, and to alternative periodization. The paper focuses on Benedictine experiences both in relation to major Council themes such as ecumenism, ecclesiology, liturgical reform and poverty, and to social themes such as the process of decolonisation, liberation struggles and movements for economic and cultural emancipation in the first postconciliar decade.