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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 fully supported Cardinal Augustin Bea, credited with ecumenical breakthroughs during the Second Vatican Council. Paul VI decided to reconvene Vatican II and completed it in 1965. Faced with conflicting interpretations and controversies, he directed the implementation of its reform goals.
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'.
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.
The document was approved by a majority vote of 2,319 to 2 [1] of the assembled bishops and was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on 28 October 1965. [2] Christus Dominus calls for strong episcopal conferences of bishops, to set the standard for the church in their region, while fully supporting the Vatican and the Pope. [2]
— 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:
Dignitatis humanae [a] (Of the Dignity of the Human Person) is the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Religious Freedom. [1] In the context of the council's stated intention "to develop the doctrine of recent popes on the inviolable rights of the human person and the constitutional order of society", Dignitatis humanae spells out the church's support for the protection of religious liberty.