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Fast Facts on the Vatican Councils
Pope Pius IX
[+]Pope Pius was born on May 13, 1792 in a place called Sinigaglia.
[+]He died on February 7, 1878 in Rome.
[+]He became Pope on June 16, 1846 even though he was quite reluctant about doing so.
[+]He took the name Pius IX in memory of Pope Pius VII his former benefactor.
[+]His greatest achievements were solely religious ones. They include:
[1]Battle against false liberalism (It is astounding how fearlessly he fought, in the midst of many and severe trials, against the false liberalism which threatened to destroy the very essence of faith and religion)
[2]His promotion of the inner life of the Church (Through his whole life he was very devout to the Blessed Virgin. As early as 1849, when he was an exile at Gaëta, he issued letters to the bishops of the Church, asking their views on the subject of the Immaculate Conception, and on 8 Dec., 1854, in the presence of more than 200 bishops, he proclaimed the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin as a dogma of the Church)
[3]Convocation of the Vatican Council (On 29 June, 1869, he issued the Bull "Æterni Patris", convoking the Vatican Council which he opened in the presence of 700 bishops on 8 Dec., 1879. During its fourth solemn session, on 18 July, 1870, the papal infallibility was made a dogma of the Church.)
Pope Paul VI
[+]He was born on September 26, 1897 at a place called Concesio.
[+]Pope Paul Vl, the pilgrim pope, died on August 6, 1978, the feast of the Transfiguration. He asked that his funeral be simple with no catafalque and no monument over his grave.
[+]He became Pope on June 21, 1963 after the death of Pope John XXIII
[+]In his first message to the world, he committed himself to a continuation of the work begun by John XXIII.
[+]His greatest achievements include:
[1]He was appointed to the Central Preparatory Commission for Vatican II and also to the Technical-Organizational Commission.
[2]He committed himself to a continuation of the work begun by John XXIII. Throughout his pontificate the tension between papal primacy and the collegiality of the episcopacy was a source of conflict. On September 14, 1965 he announced the establishment of the Synod of Bishops called for by the Council fathers, but some issues that seemed suitable for discussion by the synod were reserved to himself.
[3]Celibacy, removed from the debate of the fourth session of the Council, was made the subject of an encyclical, June 24, 1967; the regulation of birth was treated in Humanae Vitae July 24, 1968, his last encyclical. The controversies over these two pronouncements tended to overshadow the last years of his pontificate.
The People and the Church
A Major Issue from the first Vatican Council was getting the people who made the congregation of the Church to continue to come to church and realize that they needed the church. However, this was something that was very hard to do because the laws within the church at that time were very strict and people began leaving the church because of some of the unbelievable church laws. Some of them included:
[+]Vatican 1: In the beginning, the Church solely believed that outside of the Catholic Church, there was no salvation. This stopped people from actually joining the Catholic Church because many people felt as if the Church was insulting the type of people they were thus far.
Vatican 2: After the priest, cardinals, bishops and Pope met at the meeting to discuss the second Vatican Council, they decided that elements of salvation can save anyone and that the Catholic Church would be one of the branches of salvation for the people.
[+]Vatican 1 The Church also orginally believed that one needed the Church to believe in God and if they didn't attend Church, there was no true belief in God. Again they displayed the thought that there is only one universal Church and outside of which there was no true faith and noone could truly be saved. This was especially apparent when it came to the Catholic Church and the Islamic Religion
Vatican 2 The Church decided that this would greatly be changed except for one small aspect. One could believe without the use of the Church for this was now considered as solitary faith but the Church encourage people to go to Church to increase their faith and now the worldly faith's began to be recognized.
Pope John Paul II and the 21st Century Church
The Church in our world today is completely different from the Church of long ago. The Church is far more interactive with its global congregation and our Pope is probably the Strongest Pope to lead the Catholic Church despite all the adversity he has faced in his life. With Global Peace in danger, Church scandals, and questions about his ability to lead the Church, the Pope still manages to give his message to the world especially the young people of the world and they heed to his message. In my opinion this shows the influence and strenght of the Church in today's world.
