AUGUST 2024 Dear Friend, As the Catholic Church continues to move forward on the synodal path, we remember the role of the Second Vatican Council in recovering the synodal tradition and propelling it forward in the life of the church. That is the subject of Cardinal Robert McElroy’s contribution to a new book, Vatican II at 60: Re-Energizing the Renewal, edited by Catherine E. Clifford with Stephen Lampe. In his Preface to the volume, Cardinal Blaise Cupich welcomes the invitation to return again to the documents of Vatican II, “not only for their message but also for their dynamism, realizing that they are the tradition of a living church that needs their message and dynamism as much today as it did in 1965.” As believers we take many paths...