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Second Vatican Council


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The Second Vatican Council (Latin: Concilium Oecumenicum Vaticanum Secundum, informally known as Vatican II) addressed relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the modern world. It was the twenty-first ecumenical council of the Catholic Church and the second to be held at Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. The council, through the Holy See, formally opened under the pontificate of Pope John XXIII on 11 October 1962 and closed under Pope Paul VI on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on 8th December 1965.

Several changes resulted from the council, including the renewal of consecrated life with a revised charism, ecumenical efforts towards dialogue with other religions, and the call to holiness for everyone including the laity, a
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Dei Verbum: Dogmatic Consti...

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Lumen Gentium: Dogmatic Con...

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Vatican Council II: Constit...

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Gaudium Et Spes: Pastoral C...

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Vatican Council II: The Con...

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Sacrosanctum Concilium: Con...

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“Particular law remaining in force, the use of the Latin language is to be preserved in the Latin rites.”
Second Vatican Council, Sacrosanctum Concilium: Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy

“[O]ften men, deceived by the Evil One, have become vain in their reasonings and have exchanged the truth of God for a lie, serving the creature rather than the Creator. […] By the proclamation of the Gospel… [the Church] gives [non-Christians] the dispositions necessary for baptism, snatches them from the slavery of error and of idols and incorporates them in Christ…”
Second Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium: Dogmatic Constitution on the Church

“But in order that the liturgy may be able to produce its full effects, it is necessary that the faithful come to it with proper dispositions, that their minds should be attuned to their voices, and that they should cooperate with divine grace lest they receive it in vain. Pastors of souls must therefore realize that, when the liturgy is celebrated, something more is required than the mere observation of the laws governing valid and licit celebration; it is their duty also to ensure that the faithful take part fully aware of what they are doing, actively engaged in the rite, and enriched by its effects.”
Second Vatican Council, Sacrosanctum Concilium: Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy



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