Current Trends and Perspectives in the Interpretation and Reception of the Second Vatican Council (1962‒1965)

Benedict XVI’s speech to the members of the Roman Curia in 2005 on the “hermeneutics of reform” sparked new interest in the theological interpretation of the Second Vatican Council (1962‒1965) in the Catholic Church. The main purpose of the text is to present the most significant interpretive currents of the 21st Ecumenical Council in the last twenty years, which emerge as acritical evaluation and appropriation of the call for a“hermeneutic of reform”. The article further explores the topic of the reception of the Second Vatican Council, especially concerning the generative (creative) reception of the conciliar work since the beginning of the pontificate of Pope Francis. It also aims at indicating the main lines of conciliar reception in the time of Pope Francis through the theological neologism of synodality and synodal renewal of the Catholic Church. This is reflected in recent years both in the field of theology and in the life of the entire Catholic Church, as an issue under issues of the future shape of the Catholic Church.