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A 12 page research paper that discusses changes in the Catholic Church instituted by the Second Vatican Council. This examination of Vatican II doctrine demonstrates that changes to the Mass are evocative of the way that Vatican II reshaped the Church's understanding of itself and that this made the Church more relevant to the modern era. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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II see it as "liberating Catholics from a long night of oppression, thus restoring to the people of God their rightful liberties" (Dulles, 2003, p. 7). On the other hand,
detractors of Vatican II blame the council for "shattering the unity and order of the church and introducing an era of contestation and doubt" (Dulles, 2003, p. 7). As
this suggests, one side sees the Church prior to Vatican II as tyrannical and the other idealizes the Church prior to Vatican II as if it were a "lost paradise"
(Dulles, 2003). One of the most contested changes brought about by Vatican II were changes to the Mass. An examination of Vatican II doctrine demonstrates that changes to the
Mass are evocative of the way that Vatican II reshaped the Churchs understanding of itself and that this made the Church more relevant to the modern era. Background
At the Second Vatican Council, the first major document on the agenda was the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (Sacrosanctum Concilium). With the
overwhelming support of the worlds bishops and the pope himself, it passed on December 4, 1963 during the second session of the council by a vote of 2,147 to 4
(Huebsch, 2003). New rites were formulated and the new Mass was ready within a year. On the first day it was allowed, Pope Paul VI himself celebrated Mass using the
revised rite (Huebsch, 2003). Previously, the celebration of the Mass had not changed one iota since the Council of Trent in the
sixteenth century (Huebsch, 2003). Catholics attended Mass every Sunday in large numbers, praying with rosaries or missals, while the priest and altar boys prayed the Mass (Huebsch, 2003). The Mass
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