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Second Vatican Council
Meeting from 1962 to 1965, the council addressed the Catholic Church and its relationship to the modern world in an effort to renew the Church and work toward healing the rifts between the Christian faiths. It was here that the requirement to conduct all masses in Latin was relaxed.
133 Questions
What Does Vatican II tell about Celibacy?
Pope Paul VI addressed this question in full at the end of the Second Vatican Council, he issued Sacerdotalis Caelibatus which covered all the different facets of priestly celibacy. That it was from the ancient Church, that is has a deep theological significance, and that the Church is not about to change its stand on this, for more information see the link below.
The Sacrament of Anointing, which used to be called Extreme Unction, was reserved, before the Second Vatican Council to a person in extremis (at the point of death), since the Second Vatican Council, the Sacrament has been extended to anyone who is gravely ill, or just in possible danger of death just from old age.
Did Vatican II change communion?
1) to newly baptized adults in the Mass following their Baptism, confirmed adults in the Mass following their Confirmation; baptized persons who are being received into full communion with the church
2) The bridegroom and bride at their Nuptial Mass.
3) Deacons at their ordination Mass.
4) An abbess in the Mass wherein she is blessed; virgins at the Mass of their consecration; professed religious and their parents, close relatives and other members of their community in the Mass wherein they make their first, renewed or perpetual religion profession on condition that the profession is made during Mass.
5) Lay missionaries at the Mass in which they are publicly assigned to their missionary task; others who, during Mass, are entrusted by the Church with some special mission.
6) A sick person, and all who are present when Viaticum is given in a Mass celebrated in the sick person's home.
7) The deacon and others who have special ministries in a Mass celebrated with singing.
8) When there is concelebration:
a) all who perform a genuine liturgical ministry in concelebration; and all seminarians who are present.
b) all members of institutes professing the evangelical counsels, and other societies whose members dedicate themselves to God by religious vows or promises, provided that the Mass be in their own church or chapel; in addition, all those who live in the houses of those institutes and societies.
9) Priests who are present at important celebrations and yet are not able personally to celebrate or concelebrate.
10) All who are making a retreat or some other form of spiritual exercise, in a Mass specially celebrated for those taking part; all who attend a meeting of pastoral commission, in a Mass which they celebrate in common.
11) Those mentioned in 2 and 4 above, at Masses celebrating their jubilees.
12) Godparents, parents, spouses and lay catechists of a newly baptized adult, during the Mass of Initiation.
13) Parents, relatives and special benefactors of a newly ordained priest at his first Mass.
14) Members of the Community, at a Conventual or Community Mass as described in n. 76 of this Instruction.
What were the return to sources in Vatican II?
Returning to the sources was not from the Second Vatican Council, it was a paper issued by Archbishop Piero Marini on the occasion of a symposium on a new set of volumes Monumenta Liturgica Concilii Tridentini at the Salesian Institute of the Sacred Heart in Rome on 23 March 2006. You may read it at the link below.
Where does the county council meet?
Councils usually meet in council offices - in the council chamber.
Did the Vatican II go too far or not far enough?
It depends. It almost wrecked the Middle and middle-upper level merchandising of what are called Ecclesiastical Wares- that his upper level Religious articles- immediately prior to Vatican II three Jewelers ( Jewelers, not primarily religious goods shops)- in Jersey City had big Ecclesiastical Ware departments. It was a common practice for parishioners to donate big-ticket religious articles- such as Chalices, Pattens, and so on following the death of a family member- more practical than mass cards in a sense... It practically wrecked the Ecclesiastical Ware industry. On the other hand there are some areas which could have been more opened up- the possibility of abolishing or modifying the Celibacy laws- which was not even given an earnest fair-shake during the conferences which went on a number of years. Openings-up to other denominations, were, for the most part- a positive change a progression indeed. Much updating remains to be accomplished!
Roman Catholic AnswerThis is an odd question: to ask if an Ecumenical Council of the Church went "too far". An Ecumenical Council is a gathering of all the bishops of the Church under the leadership of the Holy Father. As such, all of its pronouncements are infallible, and a result of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit IS God and we, as human beings, have no business judging God.If, on the other hand, you are asking about the implementation of Vatican II, which is what the above answer is about, then, yes, it has gone way too far, for the simple reason that many of the implementations of Vatican II ignored previous Councils which were also infallible. As the Holy Father has pointed out, one must not look on Vatican Council II with a hermeneutic of rupture. As in the above answer, people who were responsible for the implementation of Vatican II often did things that were at odds with the Council and with previous Councils - thus "too far".
Yes, indeed. The Church and people were surprised that Pope John XXIII, a "caretaker" pope had called a council at all. Then there was the battle royal between the Orthodox Catholic bishops and the Modernists. The most surprising part of all was the fact that the Council was basically ignored after it was over, and most of the changes put into effect were "in the spirit of Vatican II", a "spirit" which every recent pope from Pope Paul VI onward has defined as Satanic. Popes John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI made valiant efforts to get the Church back on track, and now Pope Francis has taken up the task.
