{"id":747,"date":"2025-12-11T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewtnromania.com\/2025\/12\/11\/vatican-ii-at-60-why-the-council-still-guides-the-church\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T12:00:39","slug":"vatican-ii-at-60-why-the-council-still-guides-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/2025\/12\/11\/vatican-ii-at-60-why-the-council-still-guides-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican II at 60: Why the Council Still Guides the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q: What was the Second Vatican Council?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: The Second Vatican Council, or Vatican II, was the last ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, concluding on December 8, 1965.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: Who presided over the formal closing of Vatican II?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Pope St. Paul VI presided over the solemn ceremony that formally declared the Second Vatican Council concluded.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: What was the primary goal Pope John XXIII set for Vatican II?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Pope John XXIII entrusted the Council with defending and presenting Christian teaching more effectively, considering the contemporary world&#8217;s circumstances.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: What is &#8220;synodality&#8221; in relation to Vatican II?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Synodality is a mode of collegiality within the Catholic Church, officially described as &#8220;a further act of reception of the Council,&#8221; which emphasizes shared decision-making.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: How has Pope Leo XIV viewed Vatican II?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Pope Leo XIV has consistently shown a complete commitment to the path set by the Second Vatican Council and has grounded his teaching in its attitudes of dialogue and concern for the world.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: What is a &#8220;hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture&#8221; regarding Vatican II?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: This concept, cautioned against by Pope Benedict XVI, describes an interpretation of Vatican II that suggests a significant break between the pre-conciliar and post-conciliar Church.<\/p>\n\nThis is a summary of the article from https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/vatican-ii-60-years-still-speaks. Visit this link to view more.\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DuY4kAWlTS\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/vatican-ii-60-years-still-speaks\">60 Years After Its Conclusion, Vatican II Still Speaks to Us<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;60 Years After Its Conclusion, Vatican II Still Speaks to Us&#8221; &#8212; EWTN Vatican\" src=\"https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/vatican-ii-60-years-still-speaks\/embed#?secret=VRXk2cuMTw#?secret=DuY4kAWlTS\" data-secret=\"DuY4kAWlTS\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What was the Second Vatican Council? A: The Second Vatican Council, or Vatican II, was the last ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, concluding on December 8, 1965. Q: Who presided over the formal closing of Vatican II? A: Pope St. Paul VI presided over the solemn ceremony that formally declared the Second Vatican [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}