With a tenor of compassionate lament, this document, approved November 21, 1964, introduces the concept of “separated brethren ... with Rome since Vatican II—including the Anglican ...

Everywhere large numbers have felt the impulse of this grace, and among our separated brethren ... to the glory of God [DV II, 341], A major objective of Vatican II was the modernization, the ...

Vatican II decisively changed that mentality ... not the "return" of the separated brethren to the preexisting unity of the Catholic church (n. 1) As disruptive as were the East-West Schism ...

The Second Vatican Council issued a call for dialogue ... Ecumenism," which referred to other Christian traditions as "separated brethren" and encouraged all Catholics to actively participate ...

Pope St. John XXIII’s opening address, ‘Gaudet Mater Ecclesia,’ remains one of the best ways to understand the importance of the Second Vatican ... our separated Christian brethren as ...

Murphy, a Redemptorist priest, wrote regularly for America during and after the Second Vatican Council ... a meaningful invitation to its separated brethren to return to their Father’s house.

And the church opened conversations with other faiths. For American nuns, Vatican II brought freedoms and controversies that are playing out today. Maureen Fiedler joined the Sisters of Mercy in ...

St. John XXIII, who led the Catholic Church from 1958 until his death in 1963, called for and opened the Second Vatican Council, commonly known as Vatican II, with the aim of responding to the ...

It is a call that, while it may seem groundbreaking, actually goes back to the Second Vatican Council. In an appendix to Vatican II’s 1963 ... especially the brethren who are not in communion ...

By contrast, for example, the Second Vatican Council (known colloquially as Vatican II) held at St. Peter’s between 1962 and 1965 was more significant — in both its message and its spiritual ...