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Pope Paul VI welcomed their participation "with gratitude and respect". [10]: Paragraph 112 Their presence helped to break down centuries of mistrust. [citation needed] Lay auditors. While not provided for in the Official Regulations, a small number of lay people were invited to attend as "auditors" beginning with the Second Session.
Pope Paul VI during an October 1973 audience Pope Paul VI at Mount Tabor, during his 1964 visit to Israel. To Paul VI, a dialogue with all of humanity was essential not as an aim but as a means to find the truth. According to Paul, dialogue is based on the full equality of all participants. This equality is rooted in the common search for the ...
Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time (2015), sculpture by Joshua Koffman at the Jesuit-run Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, commemorating Nostra aetate.. Nostra aetate (from Latin: "In our time"), or the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions, is an official declaration of the Vatican II, an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church.
This dogmatic constitution was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on 21 November 1964, following approval by the assembled bishops by a vote of 2,151 to 5. [1] As is customary with significant Roman Catholic Church documents, it is known by its incipit , " Lumen gentium ", Latin for 'Light of the Nations'.
With the accession of Pope John Paul II after the mysterious death of Pope John Paul I (who only survived as pope for 33 days), the church had, for the first time since Pope Adrian VI in the 16th century, a non-Italian pope. John Paul II has been credited with helping to bring down communism in eastern Europe by sparking what amounted to a ...
— Paul VI, Homily on the occasion of the first anniversary of the closing of the Council, 8 December 1966. Benedict XVI emphasised a "hermeneutic of continuity". The hermeneutics of continuity inspired the pontificate of Pope John Paul II [8] in the Vatican and was explicitly formulated by Pope Benedict XVI on 22 December 2005:
Pope Paul VI (1965). Pastoral Constitution on Church in the Modern World. Boston: Pauline Books & Media. ISBN 0-8198-5854-4. Alberigo, Giuseppe (2006). History of Vatican II: the Council and the Transition, the Fourth Period and the End of the Council, September 1965-December 1965. Maryknoll: Orbis Books. p. 386. ISBN 1-57075-155-2.
First Vatican Council: Convoked by: Pope John XXIII: President: Pope John XXIII Pope Paul VI: Attendance: up to 2,625 [1]: Topics: The Church in itself, its sole salvific role as the one, true and complete Christian faith, also in relation to ecumenism among other religions, in relation to the modern world, renewal of consecrated life, liturgical disciplines, etc.