Simmern Germany — A meeting of 40 Vatican II scholars in 2019 as part of the ongoing discussions that led to Vatican II: Event and Mandate.

In 2016, an international team of theologians launched the Vatican II: Event and Mandate project, aiming to publish an intercontinental commentary on the Second Vatican Council to overcome the prevalent Eurocentrism of Vatican II scholarship. The project currently involves 150 scholars and has produced the 12-volume series—published concurrently in English (Peeters) and German (Herder).

The 12 volumes will include:

• An introductory volume detailing important hermeneutical questions informing theological and religious pluralism in international Catholicism, interculturalist, and post colonial thinking.
• Five continental volumes covering Latin-American/Caribbean, Asian, African, North-American/Australian/Oceanic, and European perspectives.
• Five intercontinental commentary volumes on the 16 conciliar documents.
• A concluding volume focusing on future orientations for the life of the Church.

In 1998, a group of ten theologians and canon lawyers from North American and Europe met at Saint Paul University to discuss the impact of Vatican II on the lives of the laity.  Their first research project on the subject proposed ways the Church could change its canonical structures to realize the goals of Vatican II. The Peter and Paul Seminar was created to foster continued discussions of how to realize the Council’s goal of restoring unity in the Church. 

Today, the Seminar brings together a number of systematic theologians, canon lawyers, and historians. Research projects from the Seminar have been published in The Jurist, Studies in Liturgy, and Studia Canonica.

In 2012, Massimo Faggioli and Peter De May founded the Vatican II Studies Unit in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Council. This Unit has a double focus:

1. Deepening the understanding of the history of Vatican II, its link with movements of renewal in Catholic theology and in the Church in the decades prior to Vatican II, the history of the reception of the Council, and the redaction history of the different documents of the Council;
2. A strong theological concern with both to the hermeneutical issues connected to methods of interpreting conciliar teaching and its ongoing reception in a changing context.

San Salvador, El Salvador — Methodist and Catholic members meet for the 2025 plenary session.

Beginning in 1967, the World Methodist Council and the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity has engaged in continual dialogue to promote “full communion in faith, mission and sacramental life.” This partnership, officially called the International Commission for Dialogue Between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Methodist Council, has met annually, and has produced eleven documents for consideration by the authorities and faithful of our two traditions. These reports have explored themes central to Christian faith: baptism, holiness, justification, Scripture and tradition, the Eucharist, the nature and mission of the Church, and the call to visible communion.

Beginning in 2018, Sacred Heart University created Go, Rebuild My House was developed to assist in rebuilding a church in a time of disunity and spiritual decay. The blog features discussions on reform within the Catholic tradition, drawing inspiration from popular culture, personal reflection, significant publications, and much more. Authors for the blog include theologians, professors, authors and administrators.