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The Second Vatican Council was only held fifty years ago, in the Church's history, that is practically overnight. The influence of the Second Vatican Council will not be able to be evaluated for another 50 to 100 years.

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When was the Vatican Council 2 held Who attended What was the purpose?

The Second Vatican Council was held at the Vatican, obviously, Ecumenical Council are named after the location where they are held, this was the Second Ecumenical Council to be held at the Vatican. It was convened in 1962 by Blessed Pope John XXIII, of happy memory; it was closed by Pope Paul VI, of happy memory, on December 8, 1965. It's purpose, according to Pope John XXIII was to "update the Church" to bring its presentation of the faith up to modern standards in order to better evangelize the world, and to call individual Christians to a deeper holiness.


What are the changes brought to us by the Second Vatican Council?

Answer from a CatholicI'm writing this answer in 2012, fifty years after the beginning of the Second Vatican Council and, although it will be news to most people in the pews, we are just NOW learning what the Council actually did, and believe me, I was in the Catholic seminary studying for the priesthood immediately after the Council, and I had no idea what the Council was about. We thought it was about putting the Mass, Breviary, and sacraments into English. You know what? The Council NEVER called for putting the Mass and Sacraments into the vernacular, in fact, they specifically, along with the Pope, praised Latin, and called for a "wider use of the vernacular" in the readings and such. Huh? Right. The altars were turned around and the priest now faces the people, again - not called for by the Council. The Council's major documents (and there were a lot) were the Church in the Modern World, and the Constitution on the Church. These documents called for a renewed and vital interest in the Scriptures, Evangelization, making the Church relevant to the world NOT changing the Church to look like the world. The Fathers of the Council were trying to bring the Church to bear on modern problems NOT to bring modern problems into the Church. Read the documents, NOT commentaries on them, they are remarkable, and the changes we actually saw? They were NOT called for the Council.


What did the Second Vatican Council mean it emphasized that the Church not only had much to give to the world but also had much to learn from it too?

Below is a link to Blessed Pope John XXIII's speech opening the Second Vatican Council. His Holiness thought that we needed to learn more of how the world is operating so that we may more effectively evangelize it and bring the Good News of Our Blessed Lord to it. Like the missionaries of old who went into foreign lands, learned their language and customs so that they could preach and convert them, we must go out into the world, learn its language and customs so that we may more effectively bring the message of hope and salvation to it. His Holiness spoke of "opening the windows" and bringing the means to deliver the message "up to date." Unfortunately too many in the Church thought that he wanted to bring Christ's message up to date, but His Message never changes, only the language in which it is put.


What did Cardinal Bea do in the second Vatican Council?

The main thing for which Cardinal Augustin Bea (1881-1968) will be remembered is his devotion to ecumenism. He dearly wanted all Christians to be united on some level and tried to bring about some understanding between the Roman Catholic Church and Judaism. He had grand vision in that he wanted to bring about some understanding not only with other Christians, but with non-Christian religions as well. He was the author of many books on ecumenism, the most notable being Nostra Aetate (Our Age), which was approved by Pope Paul VI and published in 1965. He was particularly incensed by anti-Semitism and drafted another book Decretum de Judaeis (Decree on the Jews) which was finalized in 1961 but unfortunately never formally presented to the Second Vatican Council which meant his thoughts on anti-Semitism were never properly aired at Vatican II. Unlike the current pope, Benedict XVI who is a traditionalist/conservative, Cardinal Bea will be remembered as a truly progressive ecumenist who died to soon as his driving force may well have really modernised the Roman Catholic Church.


What did Bea do in the Second Vatican Council?

The main thing for which Cardinal Augustin Bea (1881-1968) will be remembered is his devotion to ecumenism. He dearly wanted all Christians to be united on some level and tried to bring about some understanding between the Roman Catholic Church and Judaism. He had grand vision in that he wanted to bring about some understanding not only with other Christians, but with non-Christian religions as well. He was the author of many books on ecumenism, the most notable being Nostra Aetate (Our Age), which was approved by Pope Paul VI and published in 1965. He was particularly incensed by anti-Semitism and drafted another book Decretum de Judaeis (Decree on the Jews) which was finalized in 1961 but unfortunately never formally presented to the Second Vatican Council which meant his thoughts on anti-Semitism were never properly aired at Vatican II. Unlike the current pope, Benedict XVI who is a traditionalist/conservative, Cardinal Bea will be remembered as a truly progressive ecumenist who died to soon as his driving force may well have really modernised the Roman Catholic Church.


How do you get to Vatican from Rome?

By taxi, bus or metro. All will bring you within a short walk of the Vatican.


How do you throw out TV's?

You can either rent a skip for a day off your local county council or bring it in to a second hand shop and get a few quid or bring it into an electric shop


How many attended the Second Vatican Council?

The second vatican council was attended by representatives from many churches including bishops, priests, etc.The Vatican had over 2600 Bishops and another addition to theologians and other experts, adding up to 3000. It consisted of;1089 bishops from Europe489 bishops from South America404 bishops from North America374 bishops from Asia296 bishops from Africa84 bishops from Central America75 bishops from Oceania, , which included Papua New Guinea, The Solomon Islands, New Zealand and Australia63 observers from other Christian Churches52 lay men and women over the whole four years.Catholic AnswerThe main participants in the Council, and the only voting members were the Bishops of the Catholic Church. They, however, brought with them a number of theological experts, the current Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, was one of these experts at the Vatican Council. Also invited were various observers from other religions, including our separated brethren in the East, and protestants, who attended as observers, which was quite a break with earlier Councils, although the Lutherans were invited to the Council of Trent in the 16th century, they refused to attend.


Is there scriptures in the Vatican that can ruin religion as you know it?

No, for if it did it would bring about its own downfall.


What does Catholicism say to other religions?

It depends entirely on which religion you are speaking about. The Orthodox Churches are regarded as in schism, in other words, they have kept the faith intact, but have rejected the successor of St. Peter as Christ's Vicar on earth. There are several other smaller churches which are in schism, the Old Catholics, the Polish National Catholics, etc. The ecumenical movement is trying to re-establish unity here. Then there are heresies: these are Christians who are validly baptized, but have lost the faith entirely and have no access to the sacraments. The Church views them with sadness, especially as it is not their fault that they were born outside the faith, and raised with a particular distrust of Christ's Church. The Church is working very hard, through the Ecumenical movement to reunite all of Christianity in the one Church that Christ founded. Both of these are covered in the decree on Ecumenism, Unitatis redintegratio of the Second Vatican Council.Non-Christian religions are viewed with respect, and the Council has pointed out that all of them have a kernel of truth in them. God is working always and everywhere to bring everyone to salvation. The Second Vatican Council issued the document Nostra aetate which was their Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian religions. This is particularly the work of missionaries.The Catholic Church's view on all other religions is that they all have some truth in them, and we must respect that. But God loves all people and wishes all people to be saved, and the basic commandment that we all have is to spread His message of love to all peoples and bring them into the church. You may read these two documents at the links below.


What is the second bring it on?

bring it on again


Is the Vatican still withholding evidence about child abuse in the Church?

Of course not, beginning with Pope John Paul II, and picking up speed with Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican has done everything possible to bring every accused priest to justice and protect children in every way possible. Pope Benedict XVI, in the last two years of his Pontificate laicized over 400 priests. Pope Benedict XVI did everything possible to deal with the abuse issue and bring it to a close, and Pope Francis is continuing with his gameplan.