03/07/2026 16:10 - 19:30

HALL: Parenzo - A13

Contact: Gardini D.

Chair: Proietti M.

Within the framework of the historicization of the post-Vatican II period, research carried out so far has primarily highlighted the need for a change of perspective, reflecting and concretizing the broadening of outlook that the Council itself sought to promote.
Along this trajectory, this panel aims to engage directly with the dynamics of the implementation of the Council, focusing in particular on the issue of the normalization of Vatican II. The panel therefore aims to highlight this phase of normalization by investigating its different moments and key turning points, and by bringing to light the crucial issues that emerged during the conciliar implementation phase. The panel will thus address the topic from the analytical perspective of this process of normalization, focusing in particular on:
• Post-Vatican II norms: the production of normative documentation within local churches (dioceses and diocesan synods; Episcopal conferences); the drafting of the Codex Iuris Canonici and the Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium; the elaboration, promulgation, reception, and effects of decrees and documents issued by the Holy See from Paul VI to Francis, or by bodies established in the post-conciliar period (post-conciliar commissions, Curial dicasteries), which marked turning points in the post-conciliar era; the activity of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
• Vatican II as a norm: conflicts surrounding the implementation of Vatican II; conciliar ecclesiology in relation to the reform of the Roman Curia and the development of the Synod of Bishops; the normative status of the conciliar corpus itself for subsequent theological reflection and for the practices of local churches.