conciliar
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After the conclusion of the Great Schism, some attempts were made to resolve such doubts and misgivings by granting more authority to councils of clergy rather than popes through the conciliar movement.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
As a peritus during the Vatican Council, Baum was responsible for much of the language of Nostra aetate, a conciliar declaration meant to reset relations between Catholics, Jews, and other religious groups.
From Time ● Oct. 30, 2017
For the first time in history, observers from Protestant and Orthodox churches not only sat in attendance at the debates, but were also consulted by the prelates responsible for shaping conciliar decrees.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week a pillar of the conciliar generation, Belgium's Leo-Jozef Cardinal Suenens, said that carrying out the duties of the papacy is "humanly impossible."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Bishops, however, experience no such joyful feeling, but say that the last vestige of conciliar freedom is now abolished.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
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