This Thursday marks 50 years since 2300 bishops gathered in Rome as invited by Pope John XXIII to begin the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. It was only the second Ecumenical Council in 400 years; the previous council, Vatican I, was in 1870 which was cut short by war and never completed.
Pope Pius XII in 1940’s prepared for Vatican II by his teaching on the Church, liturgy and scripture.
Pope John Paul II described Vatican II as the grace given by God to the Church in the 20th Century.
To mark the 50th Anniversary, Pope Benedict has announced a Year of Faith which begins this Thursday.
Today and the next five Sundays there will be a special perspective “Time to go a little deeper” about Vatican II on www.cathnews.
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