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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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| | Second Vatican Council - Britannica Concise |
| | The council also promulgated decrees (documents on practical questions) on the pastoral duties of bishops, ecumenism, the Eastern-rite churches, the ministry and life of priests, the education for the priesthood, the religious life, the missionary activity of the church, the apostolate of the laity, and the media of social communication. | | | Vatican Council - 21st ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church (1962–65), announced by Pope John XXIII on Jan. 25, 1959, as a means of spiritual renewal for the church and as an occasion for Christians separated from Rome to join in search for reunion. | | | 21st ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church (1962–65), announced by Pope John XXIII on Jan. 25, 1959, as a means of spiritual renewal for the church and as an occasion for Christians separated from Rome to join in search for reunion. |
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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 Second Vatican Council, the 21st ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic church, was announced by Pope John XXIII on Jan. 25, 1959. | | | 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. |
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| | The Second Vatican Council |
| | The Documents of the Second Vatican Council incarnate the effort of the Church to fulfill its promise, or its pastoral and escathological task. | | | While we close the ecumenical council, we are honoring Mary Most Holy, the mother of Christ, and consequently, as we declared on another occasion, the mother of God and our spiritual mother. | | | Consider that John XXIII had dedicated the Council to "the Immaculate", the celebration of which by the Church is on December 8th (this is the reason why the sessions always ended on Decembert 8th). |
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| | Vatican II, TCRNews.com, What did the Second Vatican Council do for us? Why the New Century Will Not Bring Vatican III |
| | VATICAN II aimed to redress the balance, not only for ecumenical reasons but also to restore what was deficient or lacking in the life of the Church from its tradition In the event, as might have been predicted, the, reaction against the Tridentine Church produced a new imbalance. | | | But the Council Fathers were interested in moving beyond the Church conceived primarily as a hierarchy or institution—with its Roman centralism and clericalism—to a Church that is a communion of the faithful. | | | The council’s most important message was the "universal call to holiness." If the Church is going to fulfill her evangelical mission, it will ultimately be the work of saints, lay and clerical. |
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| | Second Vatican Council - Occurrence or Event? |
| | On the surface, the Catholic church in 1962 was not nearly as "edgy" as the populace of Paris in 1789. | | | And second, he has been raised to the dignity of the priesthood by an ordination ceremony that, through the laying on of hands by a bishop, has mobilized the power of apostolic succession and thereby made him capable of an apparently miraculous feat—transforming bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ. | | | Such was the fruit of the Second Vatican Council, not as series of documents, but as a phenomenon which transformed the behavior patterns of Catholics with regard to their church. |
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| | Second Vatican Council II Closing Speech |
| | The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, assembled in the Holy Spirit and under the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whom we have declared Mother of the Church, and of St. Joseph, her glorious spouse, and of the Apostles SS. | | | It is the faith of the successor of Peter and of the 2,000 bishops assembled in council. | | | We decided moreover that all that has been established synodally is to be religiously observed by all the faithful, for the glory of God and the dignity of the Church and for the tranquillity and peace of all men. |
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| | Catholic Culture : Document Library : Second Vatican Council and the Holy Eucharist |
| | This paragraph beautifully summarizes the Eucharistic foundation of the Second Vatican Council, relating this Most Holy Sacrament to the Church's three-fold mission of proclaiming the Gospel, sanctifying the faithful, and governing the order and the discipline of the Church. | | | From the opening paragraphs of the Second Vatican Council, one discovers a renewed emphasis upon the Holy Eucharist as the central focus in the Church's prayer life. | | | In short, the Second Vatican Council summarizes the effects of the Holy Eucharist as the source and summit of the Catholic spiritual life. |
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| | Second Vatican Council |
| | Paul VI Its announced purpose was spiritual renewal of the church and reconsideration of the position of the church in the modern world. | | | The most spectacular innovation of the council, which convened Oct. 11, 1962, was the invitation extended to Protestant and Orthodox Eastern churches to send observers; the meetings were attended by representatives from many of those churches. | | | Women Religious Now-Impact of the Second Vatican Council on Women Religious of the Philippines [Part 3 of 28] |
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| | CATHOLIC LIBRARY: The 21 Ecumenical Councils |
| | The Council of Constance was held during the great Schism of the West, with the object of ending the divisions in the Church. | | | Quarrels with the pope having arisen, the council was transferred first to Ferrara (1438), then to Florence (1439), where a short-lived union with the Greek Church was effected, the Greeks accepting the council's definition of controverted points. | | | To this council we owe the Nicene Creed, defining against Arius the true Divinity of the Son of God (homoousios), and the fixing of the date for keeping Easter (against the Quartodecimans). |
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| | The draft equated the Church with the hierarchy of the Roman Church. | | | the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council is being solemnly opened here beside St. Peter’s tomb.” The Holy Father looked to the glories of the past, the authority and dignity of the Church through the ages—familiar and comfortable territory for his listeners. | | | There was much debate about Latin—would unity be sacrificed if the liturgy was celebrated in the vernacular?—about the possibility of communion under both kinds (hygiene was the principal concern), and about concelebration (were ten separate masses better than one mass at which ten priests concelebrated?). |
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| | The Second Vatican Council |
| | But the minority was vocal and powerful, and their leader, Cardinal Ottaviani, head of the Holy Office (what is now called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) was not one to relinquish a contest lightly. | | | And the issue of whether to include a chapter on the Blessed Virgin Mary in the document on the Church, or to prepare a separate schema on Mary, proved highly contentious, and the Fathers were showered with leaflets, pro and con. | | | In a voice shaking with emotion and pent-up anger, he declared that criticisms of the Holy Office were criticisms of the Pope himself, that the German Cardinal’s words were spoken out of ignorance, if not worse
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| | VATICAN II |
| | The Council produced 16 documents some of which are described as the greatest expressions of Catholic social teaching in church history. | | | It was the first such document to acknowledge an awareness of the Church’s relation to the secular world and modern culture. | | | While the basic doctrines of the Church did not change with the Council, its influence and documents created more profound changes for the Catholic Church than occurred in the previous five hundred years. |
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| | Q. 6: What are Catholics to think of Vatican II? |
| | thus appealing to all peoples (this Council was to be ecumenical, not only in the sense of being a general council of the Church, but also in that of appealing to the religiosity of all people of whatever religion). | | | Pope John Paull II makes not Holy Scripture, but rather Assisi, the shibboleth for the current understanding of the Council." Pope John Paul II's Theological Journey to the Prayer Meeting of Religiions in Assisi, Part I, p. | | | Not by reason of the extraordinary magisterium, for it refused to define anything. |
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| | Vaticanum Secundum -The Second Vatican Council |
| | This website celebrates the Second Vatican Council and its promise for the future of the Catholic Church. | | | He immediately responded, " The empowerment of the laity and the corresponding reduction in the relative power of the clergy and the magisterium." "Sie sind die Kirche,"he said emphatically, "You are the Church," touching my sternum lightly with his index finger. | | | It must be protected against the saws and axes and poison of those who fear change and prefer brittle leaves in reliquaries and gilded dry branches to fragile new shoots. |
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| | The Second Vatican Council and Catholicism. |
| | So at Vatican II, the bishops said in effect, "Maybe we need to go beyond the seven sacraments and add religion to the rest of life. | | | The realities inside the church door were not mixing with the realities outside the church door. | | | In other words, people don't need to know what sin is, as long as they know how to rise from the dead. |
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| | Chapter 6 - to Second Vatican Council |
| | In the second half of the century, the Mercedarian fourth vow started to be viewed in a different light and insightful investigations appeared on the subject. | | | Its religious personnel was as follows: 653 postulants, 65 novices, 223 professed of simple vows, 132 lay professed of solemn vows and 596 priests. | | | The Roman Provincial Curia was operating there and the priests who were assistants general forming the general council were also living there. |
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| | The main business of the council was to explore and make explicit dimension of doctrine and Christian life requiring emphasis for the full development of the Church and the better accomplishment of its mission in the contemporary world. | | | A total of 2,860 bishops and cardinals participated in council proceedings, and attendance at meetings varied between 2,000 to 2,500. | | | For various reasons, including the denial of exit from Communist-dominated countries, 274 bishops could not attend. |
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| | But the new norms concerning the arrangement of the sacred rites and the active participation of the faithful have given rise to several problems regarding sacred music and its ministerial role. | | | In this way the faithful will be continually led towards an ever greater participation in the singing. | | | It explained its role in divine services, issued a number of principles and laws on this subject in the Constitution on the Liturgy, and devoted to it an entire chapter of the same Constitution. |
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| | Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan: The Second Vatican Council |
| | The twenty-first ecumenical council of the Catholic Church was first announced by Pope John XXIII on January 25, 1959. | | | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes) identifies atheism as one of the most serious problems of our times, gives the most extensive treatment of marriage and the family in conciliar history, and declares the Church's strong position on war and peace in the nuclear age. | | | A combined total of 2,865 bishops and prelates attended the council, which issued sixteen formal documents as follows: |
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| | At the very end of the final session, the Coun cil promulgated the two documents which have become associated with the tradition of Catholic social teaching: the Declaration on Religious Freedom (Dignitatis Humanae) and the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes). | | | It was this latter document which constituted the Council's major contribution to the tradition and which has become arguably the most influential of all the documents of Vatican II. | | | t was convened by Pope John XXIII, who set the tone for the Council in an impressive opening address and guided it through its first session. Pope Paul VI guided the Council through its final three sessions. |
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| | Vatican II: 40 years later: The Second Vatican Council: A Timeline |
| | Meeting of the World Council of Churches in Delhi | | | 8: The Second Vatican Council is solemnly ended; extraordinary Jubilee Year proclaimed to familiarize the faithful with the teachings of the council | | | 25: The council is formally summoned by the apostolic constitution Humanae Salutis |
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| | II Vatican Council - All documents with Fulltext Search Engine |
| | Setup on August 6th, 1998 / update on May 12th, 2001 - a service of Christoph Overkott und Josef Spindelböck | | | II Vatican Council - All documents with Fulltext Search Engine | | | Download of all documents in zip format (386 KB) |
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