Marcel Lefebvre and Castro Mayer: The Story of Their Joint Activism at the Second Vatican Council

Sep 19, 2026 - 04:00
Marcel Lefebvre and Castro Mayer: The Story of Their Joint Activism at the Second Vatican Council

The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) is often remembered through the figures who shaped its reformist majority: Cardinals Augustin Bea, Léon-Joseph Suenens, Julius Döpfner, and theologians such as Yves Congar and Karl Rahner. Yet the Council also witnessed the emergence of an organized conservative minority determined to defend what it understood as the doctrinal, liturgical…

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