Second Vatican Council

In the encyclical Populorum Progressio, Pope Paul VI extended the individual principles of the Second Vatican Council to nations and exhorted believers to pay attention to the way global economics holds under-developed nations down while enriching the developed nations that use them.”The same duty of solidarity that rests on individuals exists also for nations:…

with other Christian churches is the Dogma of Papal Infallibility. This dogma was officially promulgated by Pope Pius IX at the First Vatican Council (1869-1870) in the Dogmatic Constitution Pastor Aeternus. This magisterial document defined the role and ministry of the pope within the Church. In their attempt to define the Petrine office, the Council Fathers at Vatican I unknowingly opened a ‘can of worms’ that would, unfortunately, have long-lasting consequences on the Catholic Church’s…

In John Patrick Shanley’s play, the struggle for Sister Aloysius to prove—and for Sister James to believe—that Father Flynn molested Donald Muller serves as the central conflict. Father Flynn is progressive, hoping to reform the church which causes the more conservative Sister Aloysius to appear intolerant and suspicious of him simply for his radical ideas. This conflict addresses other concerns beyond abuse, such as that of the subjugation of gender in the Catholic church, which affects Sister…

alarming form of injustice in people’s wellbeing that is needed to be understood. “The most challenging, pervasive and explosive problem of this century is that poverty exists everywhere” (Catholics Online) By the time the Church called the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) to update their teachings and socially reform, the issue was widespread with many people already being tormented by the plague of hunger and…

Canon Law is simply the rules, structure, discipline and procedures of a religion. This law of the church was revised during the Second Vatican Council. These positive changes made by Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council have influenced and shaped the church hugely and still has a heavy influence on us today. For example, if the decisions of the second vatican council were not changed, we would be using the language of latin in non-secular schools and churches, There would be no women…

My choice for my second paper was the ecclesiology of Vatican II and the book you assigned me was Rediscovering Vatican II: The Church in the Making by Richard R. Gaillardetz. At the publishing of the book it had been forty years since the close of Vatican II and the publisher thought it would be a great idea to publish books that make the teachings of the sixteen documents more accessible to Catholics. This book focuses on three of the documents, you could say one major, Lumen Gentium, and two…

authors do argue similar ideas as they also do disagree on many things. The four passages I will be summering for you are “The Great Question Ch.1”, and “Religion Ch.3” by Portier, “God is not one” by Porthero, and “Nostra Aetate” from the Second Vatican Council. The first Chapter of “The Great Question” begins by explaining that our world has many religions and that anywhere there are humans you can find a god or gods…

Religion can be defined as a set of beliefs concerning the purpose or reason of the universe. It can be described as a group of people who obtain the same distinct set of practices, traditions, or beliefs. It is something that one believes in and is devoted to. Religion is something that will always be relevant. I do not think that Religion will ever cease to exist or not be relevant. It is relevant in many different ways and aspects. It has been around for many years and will continue to be…

This paved the way to the formation of other universities creating a similar program since they were so successful. In 1961, Monsignor Oesterreicher was invited to make a preparatory statement at the Second Vatican Council. Sister Rose Thering’s PhD thesis was used in the Second Vatican Council in 1965 which is a tremendous achievement for women and a step toward the acceptance of Judaism. Sister Rose Thering has inspired me to question and go against traditional views when one feels that an…

composition is to identify the changes that have taken place pertaining to morality within the Catholic Church since the Council of Trent. As a summary, hopefully it will enlighten how we can look at and approach morality and intertwine spirituality with the unique style Father Richard Gula uses to corroborate his thesis. Father Richard Gula points out that since the Council of Trent (1545-1563), morality was more in assisting the priest in the confessionals as to determining the moral…