Vatican Ii Quotes

• Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

  Lance Morrow

  Catholic, Mind, Religion

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• Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation.

  Francis Arinze

  Church, Salvation

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• Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.

  Godfried Danneels

  Philosophy, Discipline, Revolution

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• A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

  Pope John XXIII

  Love, Peace, Men

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• For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Father, Land, Catholic

  Wilfrid sheed (1986). “FRANK MAISIE”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Consult not your fears but your hopes
  and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.

  Pope John XXII

  Motivational, Success, Dream

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• Concern yourself not with what you tried
  and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

  Pope John XXII

  Motivational, Success, Hope

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• Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams.

  Pope John XXIII

  Inspiring, Dream, Hope

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• Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

  Pope John XXIII

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The saying of Vatican II is above all, 'Conscience is supreme.'

  Dorothy Day

  Supreme, Conscience

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• Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfullfilled potential.

  Pope John XXIII

  Hope, Frustration, Thinking

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• The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species.

  Julian Jaynes

  Long, Catholic, Church

  "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes, (Book III, Chapter 6, p. 439), 1976.

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• The hope is that papal calls for a New Pentecost, which go back to St. John XXIII, and papal calls for a New Evangelization, which go back to Vatican II and especially to St. John Paul II, can come together. Pope Francis' vision is to bring together the reality of a New Pentecost with the urgency of a New Evangelization.

  Ralph Martin

  Reality, Vision, Together

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine. You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to Christ, who died on Friday. If you did, you went to hell, . . That way, Hitler would be in hell alongside someone who ate meat on Friday. I thought there was no justice there.

  Christopher Durang

  Friday, Justice, Church

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• We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's a punch in the belly to see what has happened in the church and the world. Dualistic thinking seems to have taken over the church and our politics to a really neurotic degree.

  Richard Rohr

  Growing Up, Taken, Thinking

  Source: day1.org

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