Second Vatican Council

the pope and they were not able to make the Church personable. "Though his church can be slow to change, John Paul was not slow to act. As the most-traveled pope in history, John Paul logged about 742,000 miles to about 130 nations, estimated the Vatican Information Service. He has brought the church to millions in the Third World" ("Pope John Paul

The task of the first Vatican Council is clearly defined in the following declaration at the opening of the Council: “ The Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church believes and confesses that there is one true and living God, Creator and Lord of heaven and earth, Almighty, Eternal, Immense, Incomprehensible, Infinite in intelligence, in will, and in all perfection, who, as being one, sole, absolutely simple and immutable spiritual substance, is to be declared as really and essentially distinct from

Not too long ago, anti-Semitism was common. Anti-Semitism led to the death of an entire population during the Holocaust. Luckily, the church has taken measures to rectify this anti-semitism with the publication of Nostra Aetate. In 1965, the Vatican II Council completely transformed the church’s policies and theology with this document. Nostra Aetate signifies “In Our Time.” Indeed, in our time, the ill sentiments towards Jews have changed tremendously. Nostra

that envisions Catholicism as a hierarchical institution in which the clergy are the sole decision makers. Both of these visions of church were present at Vatican II and were apparent in the council document about the church. At the council sessions the more collegial model of church became more normative, operational theology that most council fathers endorsed (Dolan, 210). Looking back at this era from the twenty-first century, an obvious question is what was the Vatican’s reaction to this democratization

is not against God’s will and is not wrong, because the second and third premises of the argument are not sound. The second premise of the traditional Christian argument is unsound because God’s will is not expressed in the Bible. Before stating what makes the second premise unsound, I will consider reasoning one could give in support of it. Among the many denominations of Christianity, Catholicism is easily able to support the second premise of the traditional Christian argument from the Vatican’s

On the eve of Vatican II, the Church struggled with the maximalist interpretation of the two dogmas; at the same time, Vatican II took up the concerns of the minority bishops as a bridge in order to discuss further the compatibility of the dogma of infallibility with a communion ecclesiology. “The work of Vatican II has remained a building site,” whose attempts “to end Vatican centralization by means of its teachings on collegiality.” The challenges that Vatican II needs to deal with are two major

Summary of article Gardium et Spes – The Dignity of the Human God is of supreme importance, as creatures of earth we need to relate to God and see ourselves as being creations of God, here we are able to see our human dignity and acknowledge that in order to be truly one with God we need to “love and devote” ("Gaudium Et Spes" 2016) ourselves. We have been told from scared scriptures that man was created “in the image of God” (Gen. 1:27), through the church man can be understood and any amount of

In Quest of Religious Freedom What becomes so annoying is that whenever a demonstration takes place in Vietnam. The government often labels the VCC as a supporter of foreign/internal political organizations, who threaten the national security. Giving this kind of reason is an act of bias and calumniation. Those personal and organizational political intentions cause misunderstanding and division, and they do not relate to any common pastoral plan of the VCC. It is not appropriate to use VCC and religious

convinced Pope Paul VI of the need for the Church to accept and encourage the Renewal in order that it should not grow in isolation. In the summer of 1975, some 10,000 Catholic charismatics gathered in the Catacombs of St. Callistus in Rome for the Second International Congress. A special Mass was celebrated with singing in tongues and prophecies at the Papal Altar in St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome followed by the historic special audience with Pope Paul VI. The Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) is much

adapting of the local culture and customs in the liturgy. This prospect excited many of the faithful around the world. The documents of the church after Vatican II ended the Catholic Church’s retreat and isolation from the world after the Counter-Reformation. For years, the center of Catholicism has been in Europe, but in the 50 years since Vatican II, the majority of