The documents of vatican ii a summary and guide by jeffrey a. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. See all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. The fact that vatican ii occurred at all was itself highly signifi cant. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Abstractthis essay discusses the changes to official roman catholic theology that were made at the second vatican council. Constitution on the sacred liturgy sacrosanctum concilium, dec. The myth and the reality 224, cardinal avery dulles, s. Here are the 16 documents approved by the second vatican council and their dates of promulgation. The document defines four doctrines of the catholic faith. Constitutions, declarations and decrees council vatican. This is a common feature of many of the ecumenical councils which have preceded it, but there is one thing about vatican ii which made it unique. Summaries with commentary of the sixteen documents of the second vatican council. Compendio della dottrina sociale della chiesa vatican.
Thanh cong dong vatican ii vietnamese missionaries in asia. April 2014 february 2014 january 2014 june 20 may 20 march 20 february 20 january 20. Byelorussian, chinese, czech, english, french, german, hungarian, italian, latin, portuguese, spanish, swahili. The second vatican council was the first council of the church called whose purpose was. Following vatican i, some were of the opinion that a council, in the roman catholic church, no longer had any juridical power. Vatican ii looked at this structure and image of church and found it greatly.
Vatican translation paperback january 1, 2009 by vatican author 4. Pastor aeternus first dogmatic constitution on the church of christ, was issued by the first vatican council, july 18, 1870. December 8 marked 50th years since the closing of the second vatican council. Vatican council ii, hope and challenge catholic diocese of jackson page 5 a very structured line of command. Media in category participants in the first vatican council the following 7 files are in this category, out of 7 total. It gives a brief outline of the sociopolitical context at the time of the first and second vatican councils so as to outline the factors behind the theological journey of the catholic church in this time period. Pdf on the occasion of the fifty years of the second vatican council, the report presents the relationship between the council and the. Archdiocese well positioned to carry out vatican ii. The first vatican council 1869 1870 this article is reprinted here, with some editorial modifications, from the1911 edition of the encyclopedia britannica the first vatican council was convened in 1869 and ended in 1870, an ecumenical council of the roman catholic church, and one of the most important events in her historical development since.