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Did the doctrines of the Catholic Church change with Vatican II?
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Yes and No. It depends on how you mean "doctrines."
Some of what the church teaches is considered dogma - central truths of the faith that are revealed by God. These cannot and did not change, but our understanding of them, and thus the way the Church describes them, can and does change. In this sense there were changes at Vatican II.
Not a single article of Faith was rescinded by the Council, nor was any new dogma established. The fundamental teaching of the Christian Faith did not change, as some of the Council's critics have claimed.
Some of what the church teaches is considered doctrine - truth derived from or related to dogma, but not necessarily central or necessary for salvation. These can and do change to some degree, though again it is more often that it is the way they are presented that changes. However some things clearly changed, for example, the Church's attitude toward ecumenism and religious freedom are doctrinal in some respects, but also pastoral. And the orientation of the church changed at Vatican II towards these and many other theological-pastoral teachings.
Finally, some of what the Church 'teaches' are really disciplines. These can always change, and many did change at Vatican II, or more accurately as a result of the new principles and presentation of doctrine by the Council. This is the way we do things, like whether the Eucharist is celebrated always in Latin, or in the vernacular as a n option. This is not doctrine, but sometimes people think of theses things as such.
Certain already-established teachings were clarified (e.g. the relationship between the Blessed Mother and the Church) and the Council Fathers spent a lot of time offering guidelines for how to engage the modern world in modern was rather than only clinging to the methods of the past (e.g. the Decree on the Media of Social Communications).
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