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By Raymond F. Bulman, Frederick J. Parrella, Jill Raitt
The second one Vatican Council used to be convened via Pope John XXIII among 1962 and 1965. It marked a primary shift towards the fashionable Church and its far-reaching suggestions changed or noticeably replaced the various practices, principles, and attitudes that had ruled Catholic lifestyles and tradition because the Council of Trent within the 16th century. during this ebook a extraordinary workforce of historians and theologians deals an neutral research of the connection among Vatican II and Trent via analyzing such matters as Eucharistic theology, liturgical swap, clerical reform, the laity, the position of girls, marriage, confession, devotion to Mary, and interfaith realizing. because the first publication to provide the sort of entire examine of the relationship among the 2 nice Councils, this is often a useful source for college kids, theologians, and church historians, in addition to for bishops, clergy, and non secular educators.
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D. Smith (London and Melbourne: Sheed and Ward Stagbooks, 1967), 165. 3. Michael A. Mullett, The Catholic Reformation (London and New York: Routledge, 1999), 17–18. 4. See H. Outram Evennett, The Spirit of the Counter-Reformation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968), 32–36, 43ff. 5. Mullett, The Catholic Reformation, 20. 6. , 22. 7. , 34. The report, which was presented to Pope Paul III in 1537, was titled Consilium Delectorum Cardinalium et Aliorum Praelatorum de Emendanda Ecclesia. The report drew heavily on an earlier document produced by the Diocese of Cologne, which had detailed a series of serious reforms focusing on the duties of bishops and the standards to be used in the ordination of priests.
It is noteworthy, nonetheless, that even conservative historians, such as Jedin, do recognize the adverse side effects of the ecclesial developments that took place in the wake of Trent. 30 The Tridentine seminaries certainly turned out far better educated and spiritually trained priests in the centuries that fol- introduction: the historical context 13 lowed, notwithstanding the fact that the same system, in the long run, tended to encourage a more authoritarian, segregated, and secretive clergy.
Bruce Publishing, 1960), 137, 139. 10. Delumeau, Catholicism, 5–6. 11. , 6. 12. R. Po-Chia Hsia, The World of Catholic Renewal 1540–1770 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 14. 13. , 14–16, 16 from trent to vatican ii and for a clear overview of the Council’s meanderings and achievements during this long span, see Murphy, The General Councils, 164–169. 14. Raymond F. Bulman, “Vatican Council II (1962–1965),” in Encyclopedia of the Vatican and Papacy, ed. Frank J. : Greenwood Press, 1999), 429.