Vatican Council
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“Converts” begins in the 1890s and ends with the Second Vatican Council in the early ’60s, when marquee conversions almost stopped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Citing the teachings of the modernizing Second Vatican Council, he urged the assembled prelates to listen to one another, discern decisions and then journey forward, without being tied to preconceived prejudices.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
Some analysts have compared the meeting to a miniature Second Vatican Council — the landmark church assembly of bishops in the 1960s that opened up the church to the modern world.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
Critics saw his papacy as a concerted drive to turn back the clock on reforms of the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council, which modernised the Church in sometimes turbulent ways.
From Reuters ● Dec. 31, 2022
I was a senior at Stanford during the last year of the Vatican Council.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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