POPES: John XXIII, 1958 - 1963 Paul VI, 1963 - 1978
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 8:06 am
LOCATION: The Vatican (St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City-State, Rome).
YEARS: 1962 - 1965
ACTION: Called by Pope John XXIII and ratified by Pope Paul VI, the Second Vatican Council was a Pastoral Council (not dogmatic) with 16 documents emphasizing ecumenism understood as religious fellowship, rather than buy phone number list emphasizing Catholic missionary enterprise for the conversion to the Faith. In 1960 Pope John XXIII declined to reveal the third secret of Fatima, which message was due that year, declaring it did not bear on his pontificate. Then in 1962 Pope John XXIII entered into a Vatican-Moscow agreement. In this agreement it was stated that for the Russian Orthodox to be present at his Council, no condemnation of Communism was to be allowed there. 1968 -- Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical, Humanae Vitae, against artificial contraception. 1969 -- Pope Paul VI promulgated the Novus Ordo Missae.
NOTE: There was no dogma defined and no heresy condemned at Vatican Council II, but rather the
YEARS: 1962 - 1965
ACTION: Called by Pope John XXIII and ratified by Pope Paul VI, the Second Vatican Council was a Pastoral Council (not dogmatic) with 16 documents emphasizing ecumenism understood as religious fellowship, rather than buy phone number list emphasizing Catholic missionary enterprise for the conversion to the Faith. In 1960 Pope John XXIII declined to reveal the third secret of Fatima, which message was due that year, declaring it did not bear on his pontificate. Then in 1962 Pope John XXIII entered into a Vatican-Moscow agreement. In this agreement it was stated that for the Russian Orthodox to be present at his Council, no condemnation of Communism was to be allowed there. 1968 -- Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical, Humanae Vitae, against artificial contraception. 1969 -- Pope Paul VI promulgated the Novus Ordo Missae.
NOTE: There was no dogma defined and no heresy condemned at Vatican Council II, but rather the