Vatican II: an archive interview with the late Fr.Austin Flannery

(Vatican Radio) During the years of the Second Vatican Council a Dominican theologian and journalist, the late Father Austin Flannery focused in a special way on the Council documents in his quality as editor of the monthly magazine “Doctrine and Life”.

His book "Vatican II: Constitutions, Decrees, Declarations" is a standard English language version often quoted in footnotes simply as ‘Flannery’.

Veronica Scarisbrick brings you an archive interview with Father Flannery who followed the Council not in his capacity as a theologian but as a journalist whose special skill was to put wordy documents into straightforward English, using inclusive language as he went along.

In the interview he explains how the Council was launched amid little media interest to begin with and how the first document, that on the liturg, was only issued after the Second Session.

A programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick.

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