Vatican II

Cultural  

1. The popular name for the Second Vatican Council, an assembly of all the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church held from 1962 to 1965. The bishops ordered a large-scale liberalization and modernization of practices in their church.

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Example Sentences

Most dramatically, the Catholicism animated by an accurate reading of Vatican II is found in sub-Saharan Africa, where orthodoxy is creating what will soon be the demographic center of the church.

From The Wall Street Journal

The church had grown increasingly liberal since Vatican II. Confession was rarely mentioned, Latin largely abandoned.

From Seattle Times

The progressive priests who dominated the U.S. church in the years after Vatican II are now in their 70s and 80s.

From Seattle Times

Vatican II modernised the liturgy, including more active participation by the congregation.

From Reuters

For now the publication is on solid financial ground, but many of its current supporters are older people who have been reading it since the days of Vatican II 60 years ago.

From Los Angeles Times