Rather, it referred to them as “separated brethren”. Despite its openness, the Second Vatican did not end clerical celibacy. Pope Paul VI tried to implement the outcome of Vatican II ...

Pope John XXIII, who, by convening the Ecumenical Council called Vatican II ... friendship to non-Catholics—he calls them “separated brethren”—he demonstrated that the walls ...

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 ...

In the initial patristic context, the expression referred primarily to those who had voluntarily separated themselves from the ecclesial ... the presence of that Spirit of Christ, who, as Vatican II ...

One of my fellow Jesuits in training dismissed the concern with a remark along the following lines: “Don’t let the culture wars define you; after all, even Vatican II teaches that there’s a ...

Perhaps most importantly, Vatican II designated Protestants as “separated brethren.” Additionally, Vatican II opened the door for Pope John Paul II to become one of the most eloquent spokespersons for ...

was a framer of the Second Vatican Council (also known as Vatican II), which began in 1962 and ended in 1965. The council established no new dogmas but attempted to update spiritual disciplines ...

(RNS) — Conservatives, reading Vatican II's documents like biblical fundamentalists, miss what it meant to participants. (RNS) — With the passage of 60 years since the opening of the Second ...

He looked at me with a friendly sort of mystification. “Oh,” he said, “but you know the church got rid of that after Vatican II?” I didn’t really argue with him. Catholicism was deep in ...