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47 unusual facts about Second Vatican Council


Adalberto Almeida y Merino

Through his adaptation of the Social Christian Doctrine as elaborated by the Second Vatican Council, he actively evangelized the less fortunate members of society, and established the permanent Diaconate in the archdiocese.

During his bishopric he attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council, and celebrated the centennial of the Diocese.

Pope John XXIII appointed him in 1962, just before convening the Second Vatican Council, as the ninth Bishop of Zacatecas.

Alceu Amoroso Lima

One of the representatives of Brazil at the Second Vatican Council, with the Archbishop Hélder Câmara, he was one of the founders of the Brazilian Christian Democracy.

Alfonso Castaldo

The Cardinal attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, and was one of the electors who participated in the 1963 papal conclave, which selected Pope Paul VI.

Alfredo Obviar

From 11 October 1962 to 8 December 1962, Bishop Obviar was a Council Father at the first Session of the Second Vatican Council.

Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association

CPCA, which was founded eight years later, thus does not recognize the proclamation of the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Pope Pius XII in 1950, canonizations from 1949 onward (e.g. the canonization of Pope Pius X), Vatican declarations on even well-established devotional piety (e.g. on the Sacred Heart of Jesus or on Mary as Queen), and the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965).

Common Worship

The wording of the ordinary of the mass was therefore very similar to that of the first English version of the post-Vatican II Roman Missal (used until 2011).

Crispin and Crispinian

Although this feast was removed from the Roman Catholic Church's universal liturgical calendar following the Second Vatican Council, the two saints are still commemorated on that day in the most recent edition of the Roman Martyrology.

Daniel Dolan

As a seminarian at Écône in autumn 1973, he came to the conclusion that "the only logical explanation" for the New Mass and the alleged heresy of the Second Vatican Council was that Pope Paul VI had lost the Roman pontificate.

David du Plessis

He was a member of staff and Pentecostal "observer" at the World Council of Churches in 1954 and 1961, respectively, and was invited to serve as Pentecostal representative at the Second Vatican Council.

Desmond Fennell

In 1964 Fennell moved with wife and son to Freiburg, Germany, as assistant editor of Herder Correspondence, the English-language version of Herder-Korrespondenz; a Catholic journal of theology, philosophy and politics which played a leading "progressive" role during the Second Vatican Council.

Édouard Gagnon

He acted as a peritus (theologian advisor and consultant) during the Vatican Council II Second Vatican Council and was Provincial of the Society of Saint-Sulpice for Canada, Japan and Latin America from 1966 to 1970.

Efrem Forni

From 1962 to 1965, the Cardinal attended the Second Vatican Council, during the course of which he participated in the 1963 papal conclave that selected Pope Paul VI.

El padrecito

Pope John XXIII called the Second Vatican Council only two years earlier, and Moreno seemed to be embracing the reforms it espoused as the remedy for Mexico's poverty.

Elias Zoghby

Zoghby was one of the most active eastern Catholic bishops to participate at the Second Vatican Council, where he offered eleven interventions.

Erich Vermehren

They became active in the Catholic Traditionalist Movement following the Second Vatican Council.

Exorcist

The Exorcist order was suppressed during the reforms of the minor orders after the Second Vatican Council by Paul VI.

Francis Mansour Zayek

Zayek was one of the last surviving bishops who had attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council between 1962 and 1965 as a bishop.

Francisco Claver

His ecclesiology emphasizes the importance of a participatory Church that is necessary in carrying out the aggiornamento called for by the Second Vatican Council.

Frans Haarsma

In the years before, during and after the Second Vatican Council Haarsma was involved in almost everything in the Dutch catholic and ecumenical field.

Frederick R. McManus

Monsignor Frederick Richard McManus (born February 8, 1923, Lynn, Massachusetts – died November 27, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American Roman Catholic priest and academic, who served as a peritus on the liturgy at the Second Vatican Council.

Geist und Leben

The basic modern concept of the journal was created by F. Friedrich Wulf SJ – the editor from 1947 up to 1989 – who took part as a theological consultant in the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965).

Georges Gilson

Monseigneur Gilson is strongly influenced by the work of the Second Vatican Council and is broadly considered as liberal.

Gunnel Vallquist

Gunnel Vallquist is of the Catholic Church and has written several essays on Catholic religion of our time, among them reports from the Second Vatican Council.

Joaquín Albareda y Ramoneda

From 1962 to 1965, he attended the Second Vatican Council, during the course of which he was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1963 papal conclave that selected Pope Paul VI.

José da Costa Nunes

Nunes attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, and was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1963 papal conclave that selected Pope Paul VI.

Josep Montserrat i Torrents

Due to his activism and writings in the Catalan Press regarding the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) he was censured in the newspapers from 1966 to 1977.

Joseph A. Burke

At age 76, Burke died in Rome during the first week of the Second Vatican Council.

Joseph Beaulieu

Also of note is his operetta Le Trésor du pauvre and his mass for four mixed voices, the Vatican II Mass, which was written for ceremonies held during the Second Vatican Council.

Joseph-Aurèle Plourde

He attended the Second Vatican Council and helped to restructure the Canadian bishops' conference- the Canadian Catholic Conference, which was renamed the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1977 (he served as President of the Conference from 1969-1971).

Julián Herranz Casado

During the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), Herranz Casado served as an assistant of study on the commissions for discipline of clergy and the Christian people.

Marcel Lefebvre – Archbishop in Stormy Times

Following a career as an Apostolic Delegate for West Africa and Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers, he took the lead in opposing the changes within the Church associated with the Second Vatican Council.

Marie Carré

The memoir claimed that he was an undercover agent of the Soviet Union ordered to infiltrate the Catholic Church by becoming a priest and to put forth modernist ideas through a teaching position that would undermine the main teachings of the Church during the Second Vatican Council in subtle ways, by turn of phrase methods.

Menzingen

The traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X, which is said to have broken from the Roman Catholic Church over "doctrinal difficulties" with the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, is headquartered in Menzingen.

Olegario González de Cardedal

As Chair of Theology at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain, a position he still holds, he took part in the third session of the Second Vatican Council and in the International Theological Conference.

Peritus

At the most recent council, the Second Vatican Council, some periti (the plural form) accompanied individual bishops or groups of bishops from various countries.

Cardinal Yves Congar, O.P. served as a consultant to the Second Vatican Council upon the invitation of Pope John XXIII, but was hired as personal and expert theologian (peritus) at the council to Bishop Jean-Julien Weber of Strasbourg which allowed him to attend all the general congregations and to take part in the discussions of any conciliar commission to which he was invited by one of its members.

Peter Doi

He attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, and was later one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1963 papal conclave that selected Pope Paul VI.

Peter Poreku Dery

He also attended the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), and focused on the involvement of the laity, the education of the youth, and the promotion of vocations during his tenure.

Peter Shirayanagi

As archbishop, he continued the Tokyo Archdiocesan Convention, implementing the decrees of the Second Vatican Council, and in 1989 led a group to visit the Catholic Church in China.

Pietro I Orseolo

The calendar reform after the Second Vatican Council transferred the feast to January 10, the date of his death.

Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm

In 1952, the institution was given further recognition and flourished after the Second Vatican Council.

Robert McKenna

After the Second Vatican Council, while working as a translator and scientific researcher for his religious Order, he became increasingly concerned with the ramifications of the Vatican reforms, and finally removed himself from those in his Order with whom he felt he could no longer associate in good conscience.

Roberto Tucci

He later worked a member of the preparatory commission on lay apostolate of the Second Vatican Council.

San Diego College for Women

Two years later, following the Second Vatican Council that encouraged Catholic educational institutions to "unite in a mutual sharing of effort," the San Diego College for Women and San Diego University began to consider combining their resources.

Vincent J. McCauley

McCauley attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council, and it proved to be a strong influence on his leadership as bishop.


Benjamín de Arriba y Castro

After participating in the 1958 papal conclave, Arriba attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, and served as a cardinal elector in the conclave of 1963.

Bernard Joseph Flanagan

Flanagan attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, and was an ardent supporter of ecumenism.

Cæremoniale Episcoporum

In line with the renewal ordered by the Second Vatican Council, a fully revised edition in a single volume was issued by Pope John Paul II in 1984, replacing the earlier editions.

Clément Roques

A cardinal elector in the 1958 papal conclave, Roques lived long enough to only attend the first two sessions of the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1963, and participate in the conclave of 1963 that selected Pope Paul VI.

Hilary Baumann Hacker

Hacker attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, and dedicated much of his tenure implementing the Council's reforms, especially the Novus Ordo Mass and greater participation of the laity.

Jacinto Argaya Goicoechea

He was appointed Bishop of Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol on October 27, 1957, where he represented his Diocese at the Second Vatican Council.

John D'Alton

A cardinal elector in the 1958 papal conclave, he was a member of the Central Preparatory Commission of the Second Vatican Council but lived long enough to only attend the Council's first session in 1962.

Józef Stala

After studies at the Warsaw Theological Academy (now: Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw he earned at May 15, 1995 the Licentiate, at June 8, 1998 the Doctorate and in 2005 the Habilitation with his book: "Katecheza o małżeństwie i rodzinie w Polsce po Soborze Watykańskim II." (Religious education in the Families in Poland after the Second Vatican Council) at the Pontifical University of John Paul II.

Louis Bouyer

Twice appointed by the pope to the International Theological Commission, he was a consultant at the Second Vatican Council for the liturgy, the Congregation of Sacred Rites and Secretariat for Christian Unity.

Martin Mosebach

The book argues for a return to the Tridentine Rite of the Mass, the form of the Roman Rite before the Second Vatican Council, the use of which, in accordance with the Roman Missal of 1962, is authorized, under certain conditions, by the 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum.

Papal inauguration

Pope Paul VI, the last pope to be crowned or to use a papal tiara, abandoned the use of his tiara in a ceremony at the end of the Second Vatican Council, and announced that it would be sold and the money obtained would be given to charity; it was in fact bought by Catholics in the United States and is now kept in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C..

Streetwise priest

Debates and conflicts with Church hierarchy exist regarding Catholic social teaching and implementing the Second Vatican Council's doctrine.

Tucum ring

More recently, the usage of the tucum ring was revived by Christians linked to liberation theology, in order to symbolize the alliance of their churches with the poor and oppressed people of Latin America, especially by Catholics after the Second Vatican Council and the Episcopal Conferences of Medellín and Puebla.

Winnipeg Statement

Supporters contend that the Canadian Bishops were merely trying to defend those who had not matured sufficiently in their faith, and that they were simply upholding the established doctrine expressed in Dignitatis Humanae, the Vatican II Declaration on Religious Freedom.