Vatican I

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Vatican I II

• Vatican I history two main doctrines
• Vatican II history main achievements
• Discussion of Decree on Ecumenism.

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Vatican I (1869-70)

• Historical circumstances
• Summoned by Pope Pius IX, held in Rome
• Threats to political power of the papacy
• Anti-Enlightenment (Syllabus of Errors published
  in 1864)Rationalism, liberalism, materialism
  condemned
• Two doctrines (Pastor Aeternus)
• Papal primacy of jurisdiction
• Papal infallibility

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Two new doctrines about Mary

• Immaculate Conception of Mary (1854)
• Bodily Assumption of Mary (1950).

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Vatican II (1962-65)

• Summoned by Pope John XXIII, then Paul VI
• aggiornamento
• Three main issues
• Reform of worship
• Role of the laity
• Ecumenism

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Interpret

• It follows that the separated Churches and
  Communities as such, though we believe them to be
  deficient in some respects, have been by no means
  deprived of significance and importance in the
  mystery of salvation. For the Spirit of Christ
  has not refrained from using them as means of
  salvation which derive their efficacy from the
  very fullness of grace and truth entrusted to the
  Church. Decree on Ecumenism, 3.

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• For it is only through Christ's Catholic Church,
  which is "the all-embracing means of salvation,"
  that they can benefit fully from the means of
  salvation. Decree on Ecumenism, 3.