Vatican Council

noun

1. the ecumenical council, convoked in Rome, 1869–70, by Pope Pius IX, that declared the dogma of papal infallibility.

Example Sentences

Then he suddenly summoned the Vatican Council II, whose reforms the Curia and recent popes have in effect sought to roll back.

From The Daily Beast

“Recall the sense of excitement with which each session of the Second Vatican Council was received,” she says.

From The Daily Beast

In Doubt there isn't a single mention of the Second Vatican Council - but it's there.

From The Daily Beast

The Vatican Council declares that the world-wide Church is the irrefragable witness of its own legation or mission to mankind.

From Project Gutenberg

There was never a more luminous evidence of this supernatural fact than in the Vatican Council.

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It seems this usage will be observed in the Vatican Council.

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As we have seen, the late Vatican Council has anathematized them.

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Another month of the Vatican Council has passed by without any public session.

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