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From Vatican II to Pope Francis: Charting a Catholic Future ed. by Paul Crowley, S.J. (review)

The papers in Crowley's edited book were given in a ten week class at Stanford University, originally planned for a two day symposium marking the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council. But just as they began preparing to publicize the course, Pope Benedict XVI resigned and Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as Pope Francis. The first pope ordained after the council concluded, his language from the time he assumed the Chair of Peter led many to hope that the vision that marked Vatican II would be experienced again in the church. How might that vision be reclaimed? This is the concern of Crowley's book. Three chapters put the council's documents in a contemporary context, five apply them to contemporary issues, and the final three attempt to imagine some future directions. While all are thoughtful, some are particularly noteworthy. Thus, Stephen Schloesser argues that the council responded successfully to the centuries of change that preceded it, but its response to what he calls the "biopolitics" of the twentieth century – contraception, abortion, gay rights, and stem cell research as well as "companionate" marriage and the nuclear family as an emotional rather than an economic unity – was woefully inadequate. He comments that much of the church's energies since the controversy over Humanae vitae has been spent trying to reconcile the lives of the non-celibate laity with a magisterial authority reserved to celibate males. Sally Vance-Trembath argues that the genius of the council lies more in its methods than in its texts. Its theological anthropology is ready to be forged into new ways of being church, while the church itself _