And yet the historical record is clear: whatever changes that Ratzinger’s thinking underwent during his long career, he always understood Vatican II reform as involving both continuity and discontinuity.

Source: https://catholicoutlook.org/the-conciliar-reform-was-real/

One can argue that more than any other pope since the council, Francis has realized the kind of pastoral magisterium that Pope John XXIII called for in his opening speech at the start of Vatican II.

Source: https://catholicoutlook.org/pope-francis-has-revived-the-spirit-of-vatican-ii/

She looks at the relationship between synodality and Vatican II, not in theological language or concepts, but in terms of results.

Source: https://catholicoutlook.org/vatican-ii-and-synodality-a-friendly-response-to-joan-chittister/

The church, however, consists of “the people of God” as was clearly outlined by Vatican II.

Source: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/my-right-to-be-called-by-my-name-not-mate-20230115-p5ccnr.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

The interrelation of the “doctrinal” and the “pastoral” was a distinctive feature of Vatican II.

Source: https://catholicoutlook.org/pope-francis-has-revived-the-spirit-of-vatican-ii/