Whilst Pope Benedict makes a point of the Vatican II being a council of reform but in continuity with the Catholic past that came before it. Whereas Pope Francis is of a more progressive attitude, with a mind open to change. What is Vatican II? One of the most important events of the 20th century, the Vatican II called thousands of bishops and other religious leaders to the Vatican City to forge a new set of operating principles for the Roman Catholic Church Referred to as the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, but also commonly known as the Second Vatican Council or Vatican II, addressed relations between the Catholic Church and the modern world.
Why Vatican II was so Important? Or must the documents of Vatican II be read in continuity with revelation and tradition? But that is the wrong answer. To claim that Vatican II was a Council of rupture and reinvention is to say, in effect, that these great men were either duplicitous, anti-conciliar reactionaries the tacit indictment of the progressives or material heretics the tacit indictment from the far right-field bleachers.
Neither indictment has any merit, although the latter has recently gotten undeserved attention, thanks to ill-considered commentaries reverberating through the echo chambers of social media and the ultra-traditionalist blogosphere. That conviction is the beginning of any authentic evangelization, any authentically Catholic development of doctrine, and any proper implementation of Vatican II.
Yes, there have been distortions of these teachings; but to blame the distortions on the teachings themselves is a serious analytical error. A Catholicism indistinguishable from liberal Protestantism has no future. Neither does a Catholicism that attempts to recreate a largely imaginary past. The Catholicism with a future is the Catholicism of the Second Vatican Council, rightly understood and properly implemented. That happens to be the living Catholicism of today, and the next pope should recognize that, too.
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After marrying, they settled in Three years earlier, Lewis and his co-commander, William Clark, Sullivan returned to Carroll College to serve as a renowned professor of history. Inspired by the Council, he also wrote Carroll College's mission statement. Skip to main content.
Second Vatican Council. In the same way Carroll College continually encourages the entire College community to discern contemporary hopes and concerns in light of its mission so as to give renewed expression to its heritage as a Catholic, diocesan, pre-professional, and liberal arts college.
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