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Many changes occurred as a result of the 2nd Vatican Council, often called "Vatican II," in the early to mid 1960s. One big change was the priest now faced the congregation, instead of performing the mass with his back to them. Another was the mass changed from mostly in Latin to mostly in English (or whatever the native language of the congregation was). And a big change was that Catholics were now permitted to attend a synagogue or go to a Jewish wedding or attend a ceremony in a non-Catholic church with their friends if they wanted to. Also, some of the negative statements about Judaism were removed from the church's teachings: the pope said it was wrong to blame the Jews for the death of Jesus and that anti-Semitism was a sin.

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Catholic AnswerThe Old Catholic Church is a breakaway schism that occurred after Vatican Council I in the 19th century. The First Vatican Council formally defined Papal Infallibility and the Old Catholics took issue with that, formally breaking ties with Rome. They still maintain a valid priesthood and valid sacraments. The other Church which formed at the same time was the Polish National Catholic Church, which went into schism for the same reasons. Those two aligned themselves with the schismatics who formed the Orthodox Church in the East back in the 12th century.
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