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The Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak is the John C. and Gertrude P. Hubbard Professor of Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

FaithFaith and Reason
Joseph A. Komonchak
Pope Benedict XVI is often considered to favor a “hermeneutics of continuity” in his interpretation of Vatican II, and careless commentators have used that term to describe his view. Instead, he calls it the “hermeneutics of reform.”
Books
Joseph A. Komonchak
In the summer of 1961 I asked the proprietor of a Catholic bookstore in Paris whether he had a copy of Yves Congar rsquo s True and False Reform in the Church After looking around he took me into a back office and from a bottom drawer pulled out a copy of the book Only later did I learn the moti