postconciliar
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of postconciliar
Example Sentences
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In the postconciliar church, any kind of censorship seems anachronistic, and there is a wide spread feeling among publishers and theologians that the whole system ought to be abandoned.
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One cause is the emphasis in the postconciliar church on the primacy of conscience�which means that lay Catholics are now far more certain of themselves as to whether or not they have sinned.
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The funeral Mass � concelebrated by nine cardinals, two archbishops, seven bishops and one priest*� was conducted entirely in English, in accordance with recent reforms of the postconciliar church.
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Fordham's new spirit shows up in its openly ecumenical, postconciliar attitude toward religion in education.
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Paul may or may not choose to be a truly postconciliar Pope.
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