Vatican Council II

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years too soon. In fact, too few years had passed since things had begun to move. Already many ideas had changed….We weren’t there yet. (HOVII, 5-/-13)
Others were confused by this, while willing to accept the idea of assembly, many were unsure of what to expect of such a council, would it be a continuation or completion of the First Vatican Council which ‘ended’ nearly 90 years previous, or would this be an entirely new agenda. I think at this point in time nobody really could define a reason to call the Church together in Council and for that reason it actually through everyone for a loop because they did not have a major issue to discuss, and they realized that it is in fact acceptable to call such a Council without a particular reason.
Pope John XXIII thought the Church and the entire Christian world was in a time in which he called “ages of renewal” in his understanding, Catholicism, was at a crossroads in which it is apparently crucial, “to define clearly and distinguish between what is sacred principle and eternal gos...