Vatican II was a significant religious event from the past. Discuss

What did it address?

Discuss

Vatican II

What is meant by significant religious event

Relations between the catholic church and the modern world

Ecumenism

Movement or tendency toward worldwide christian unity or cooperation

Evangelisation

To preach the gospel or to convert someone to christianity

Place of Church in world today

Accessibility of the Church Liturgy

As the mass was predominately held in Latin, the mass could now be celebrated in the common tongue to make it more accessible for those across the world

Identify issues and provide points for/against

Significant

sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention; noteworthy

Major historical event

Held at the vatican over four sessions from 1962 to 1965

Pope St John XXIII

Called for Vatican II in 1958

Dies before completion of Vatican II

Pope Paul VI closes Vatican II in 1965

Reasons for and against

Vatican II was good because

Vatican II was negative because

Catholic church opened its windows onto the modern world

Updated the Liturgy

Gave a larger role to laypeople

Introduced the concept of religious freedom

Started a dialogue with other religions

Priests and bishops rejected church teachings

Convents and seminaries emptied

Laypeople were thrown into confusion

Key documents from Vatican II

Lumen Gentium

Nostra Aetate

Inter Mirifica

Sacrosanctum Concillarum

affirms the absolute necessity of the Church, founded by the Lord Himself, as the means of our salvation in Christ

addressing the concerns and problems of social communication.


Religions should promote goodwill, friendship, peace and unity amongst all people since we form one human family

the table of God's word is to be made more abundantly available to the people of God in the liturgy

Loss of traditional practices in the Catholic Church, such as the use of latin in the liturgy

loss of traditional doctrine

Purpose

Modernization of the church after 20 years of life

Any event recognised as having as having religious and/or historical significance