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    Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the Second Vatican Council or Vatican II, was the 21st and most recent ecumenical council...
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    First Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the First Vatican Council or Vatican I, was the 20th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church...
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  • Hermeneutics of the Second Vatican Council, or the Hermeneutics of Vatican II, refers to the different interpretations of the Second Vatican Council given by theologians...
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    before the Second Vatican Council, which began in 1962) coexist with postconciliar rites. In the years following the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul...
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  • Vatican Council may refer to: First Vatican Council (1869–1870), the 20th ecumenical council recognized by Roman Catholicism Second Vatican Council (1962–1965)...
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    1975, Pope Paul VI, in light of the modernising changes of the Second Vatican Council, revised the rite by removing the use of trowel and ornate bricks...
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    last century, as both churches embrace a dialogue of charity. The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) ushered in a new era of relations for the Roman Church...
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    desire to stave off what he perceived to be growing rejection of the Second Vatican Council developing from groups using the preconciliar rites, issued Traditionis...
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    presentations of teaching associated with the Catholic Church before the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). Traditionalist Catholics particularly emphasize the...
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  • opening of the Second Vatican Council 60 prominent theologians, (including Hans Küng), put out a Declaration, stating that the intention of Vatican II to balance...
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    theological and disciplinary changes implemented following the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). The term sedevacantism is derived from the Latin phrase...
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    Pope Paul VI (category Participants in the Second Vatican Council)
    sovereign of the Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatican Council, which he...
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    to include even the candlesticks. In 1969, in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, the Sacred Congregation of Rites on the Revised Liturgical Year...
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  • during Second Vatican Council (1963–65) as a meaningful designation of the Christian redemption proclaimed and now accomplished in the liturgy. Council Fathers...
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    œcumenical Council, as to an authority higher than that of the Roman Pontiff. — Vatican I, Pastor Aeternus, ch. I, III At the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965)...
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  • sedevacantism, such as the Society of Saint Pius X. He claimed that the Second Vatican Council was "a Masonic plot backed by the Jews". Gibson was born in Peekskill...
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    liberal-leaning line of the Spanish Episcopal Conference and the Vatican. Following the Second Vatican Council, which took place between 1962 and 1965, there emerged...
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  • "The Vatican Rag" is a ragtime parody song by American satirist Tom Lehrer. The song purports to be a response to the Second Vatican Council, a meeting...
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    West–particularly within the Latin liturgical rites–prior to the Second Vatican Council, and is the official term for the canonical hours promulgated for...
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  • Little Office than in pre-1910 editions. In 1963, following the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI promulgated Sacrosanctum Concilium which stated: "Members...
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    Pope John XXIII (category Participants in the Second Vatican Council)
    who expected him to be a caretaker pope by calling the historic Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), the first session opening on 11 October 1962, which...
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  • the opening of the Second Vatican Council. The document was originally intended to be just about Rabbinic Judaism but as the Council was underway become...
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    demanding jobs, but also people traveling and students. On the eve of Vatican II, fasting and abstinence requirements in numerous Catholic countries...
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    Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) and the issuing of the decree Unitatis redintegratio and the declaration Dignitatis humanae. It was at the Council...
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  • Wright, as well as Catholic priest and theologian Charles Davis. The Second Vatican Council saw the acceptance of many of the movement's ideas, resulting in...
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    Pope John XXIII, made a further revision in 1960. Following the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church's Roman Rite simplified the observance of the...
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    St. Ambrose, St. Basil, St. Ephraem, and, a little later, by several councils in Gaul and Spain, and by the various monastic rules. In the sixth century...
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    referenced in the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation of the Second Vatican Council. Baruch 6 is quoted in the Catechism of the Catholic Church as part...
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    Nostra aetate was first drafted, or even at the opening of the Second Vatican Council. However, as in the case of the question of Judaism, several events...
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  • supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors". In calling the Second Vatican Council, Pope John XXIII noted a distinction between the truths of faith...
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