Abstract

This essay reviews the recent literature on Vatican II published during the years 2019-2022. The first part of the review focuses on the relationship between Vatican II and the documents of Pope Francis on synodality, the liturgy, and the Roman Curia. The second part lists the most important contributions in the scholarship on the history and reception of the final documents of Vatican II. The third part of the essay advances some hypotheses for the future path of the studies on Vatican II, also in light of the recent opening (in 2020) of the archives of Pius XII in the Vatican Apostolic Archives