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| | Second Vatican Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | They decry the Council's declaration: "The Church knows that she is joined in many ways to the baptized who are honoured by the name of Christian, but who do not however profess the Catholic faith in its entirety or have not preserved unity or communion under the successor of Peter... | | | However, the Council Fathers insisted, with the support of the Pope, that, as Mary's place is within the Church, treatment of her should appear within the Constitution on the Church. | | | The council sought to revive the central role of Scripture in the theological and devotional life of the Church, building upon the work of earlier popes in crafting a modern approach to Scriptural analysis and interpretation. |
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| | First Vatican Council |
| | Vatican I sought to define authoritatively the church's doctrine concerning the faith and the church, especially in response to new challenges from secular philosophical and political movements and theological liberalism. | | | First dogmatic constitution on the church of Christ | | | The purpose of the council was, besides the condemnation of contemporary errors, to define the catholic doctrine concerning the church of Christ. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Vatican Council |
| | First, the names of the members of the congregation of petitions were communicated; this was followed by the elections to the four deputations. | | | According to the dogmatic decision of the Vatican Council, the papacy founded by Christ is the crown and centre of the entire constitution of the Catholic Church. | | | The first drafts of decrees debated were to be the dogmatic and disciplinary ones laid before the assembly by the pope. |
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| | The Second Vatican Council |
| | Thus the Council of Trent defined precisely the revelation of Jesus concerning; justification by faith, the Eucharist, the number of canonical books in the Holy Scriptures, the sacraments in general and specifically, and basically all those beliefs that the Church had held from the Apostles up until the end of the 16th Century. | | | By the grace of God and the protection of the Holy Spirit this Council was not dogmatic and therefore did not proclaim any "dogmas " in the name of the Church that would have been contrary to the Catholic Faith. | | | For instance in the 2 great councils held before Vatican II the Church defined as dogma certain beliefs that up til then had been held as a matter of Faith but which had been challenged. |
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| | VATICAN I |
| | The First Vatican Council, from this symbolic standpoint, initiated an event that would remain in the Church's history as a point of no return for the growth of faith. | | | In calling the second Council at the Vatican, John XXIII was opening a new chapter in that one book which is the Church's history. | | | So the announcement of the first Council at the Vatican on the 1,800th anniversary of the martyrdom of Sts Peter and Paul, 29 June 1867, took neither the Church nor the society of the time by surprise. |
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| | Second Vatican Council |
| | The Second Vatican Council was the 21st ecumenical council recognized by the Roman Catholic church, which became the symbol of the church's openness to the modern world. | | | The council was ecumenical in its outreach to non-Catholic Christians (represented by observers from twenty-eight denominations) and humble in relation to non-Christian religions. | | | The Second Vatican Council, the 21st ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic church, was announced by Pope John XXIII on Jan. 25, 1959. |
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| | Formally known as an ecumenical council, Councils are a meeting of the bishops of the whole church convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctrine and practice. | | | Vatican I was also the first to be held in over 300 years, since the Council of Trent, to proclaim the doctrine of Papal infallibility when speaking ex cathedra (formally, from the chair of St. Peter) on matters of faith and morals. | | | First, it reversed the church's siege mentality and called for an openness and outreach to all other Christians ('our separated brethren') and to other religions besides. |
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| | Vatican Council, First on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The council was convened Dec. 8, 1869, in St. Peter's, and it was attended by some 600 of the higher clergy (patriarchs, archbishops, bishops, abbots, generals of orders, and theologians) from all over the world. | | | Within the church the papal infallibility had been generally believed for many centuries. | | | Taking the idea of `people of God' to heart. |
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| | The Second Vatican Council |
| | Previous Councils may have had a greater impact on what the Church believed: the Council of Ephesus in 434 proclaimed Mary as Theotokos, Mother of God; the First Vatican Council of 1870 proclaimed the dogma of papal infallibility. | | | The Council was a series of meetings of the bishops of the entire world which began at St. Peter’s on October 11, 1962 and concluded on December 8, 1965. | | | But the Council was, and is, more than a meeting of bishops, more than a hefty tome of difficult reading. |
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| | Social Justice Review -- Articles |
| | We shall not be the first to do so: in an admirable lecture in Dayton, Ohio, Rev. John A. Hardon, S.J., elucidated the infallible value of the encyclical on the grounds that it is, as indeed, the Holy Father mentions several times, a continuation of the teaching of the Ordinary Magisterium of the Church. | | | Returning to the report of the Relator, Bishop V. Gasser, at the First Vatican Council, we find him explaining that infallibility can be an attribute common to a variety of declarations of the popes just as, also, of a council together with the reigning pontiff, on different levels of knowledge. | | | The expression “anathema sit” (“may he be excommunicated”) addressed to any of the faithful who may refuse their assent to a teaching, a censure with which many solemn definitions wind up, is simply not an indispensable mark of doctrine proposed (imposed) as infallible. |
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http://www.socialjusticereview.org/articles/humanae_vitae.php
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| | First Vatican Council |
| | If anyone shall have said that the one true God, our Creator and our Lord, cannot be known with certitude by those things with which have been made, by the natural light of human reason: let him be anathema. | | | Psalm 19:1 "The Heavens declare the Glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands" | | | If anyone shall not be ashamed to affirm that nothing exists except matter: let him be anathema. |
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| | Newman on Papal Infallibility |
| | Even if the supporting Scripture texts were not convincing (as Newman thought they were), this did not affect the truth of the actual decisions of a Council, which alone were guaranteed....... | | | Even that eventuality, however, Newman could believe must be in the long run be expedient in God's Providence, however inexpedient it might seem at the time..... | | | Newman could not accept the validity of his [i.e., Dollinger's] arguments against the actual definition. |
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| | First Vatican Council |
| | The Vatican Council of 1869-1870 approved the doctrine of papal infallibility, meaning that the church is preserved from error when the pope makes official pronouncements in matters of doctrine. | | | Modernity brought many challenges to the Roman Catholic Church: Protestantism, the rise of modern science, the Enlightenment, nationalism, and dissent within the Catholic church itself. | | | Roman Catholic ecumenical council which reasserted papal authority. |
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| | The First Vatican Council |
| | The larger part of the Catholic Church so little believed in it, that when Protestants reproached them with this superstition, Roman theologians regarded it as a calumny. | | | "Up to the time of this Council the personal infallibility of the Pope was considered nothing more than a ‘pious opinion’ held by a faction within the Church. | | | The Vatican Council was a bold step in an attempt to make what had formerly been regarded as a 'Protestant invention' into the keystone of the Catholic Faith. |
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| | CNS STORY: Vatican II was first council with modern technology |
| | With a total of 160 slots on 10 commissions to be filled by elections, the bishops cast about 100,000 ballots in each of four successive meetings. | | | The system got its first major test in the first two weeks of the council, when the bishops elected members of the council commissions. | | | One tape went directly to the archives, the book says, while the other was used by the 15 priest-stenographers who took the minutes of each session. |
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| | St. Peter's - Right Transept |
| | Confession is available here during most of the hours that the church is open. | | | The vault in travertine was decorated in the 18th century by Vanvitelli with white and gold stucco ornaments. | | | This area held the sessions of the First Vatican Council, in which about seven hundred Fathers took part, and which was opened by Pius IX on 8 December 1869. |
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| | First Vatican Council: Bibliography |
| | The legacy of John Schuette, S.V.D.(missionary, Superior General of the Society of the Divine Word, member of Second Vatican Council) | | | Vatican II: 30 years on the road from Rome. | | | Related content from HighBeam Research on: First Vatican Council: Bibliography |
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| | Acton (1975) Lord Acton and the first Vatican Council: A journal |
| | Acton (1975) Lord Acton and the first Vatican Council: A journal | | | Lord Acton and the first Vatican Council: A journal | | | To view the the latter's ratings, click on Chapters/Papers/Articles in the STATISTICS box, select a publication from the list that appears, and then click on either Quality or Interest in that publication's STATISTICS box. |
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