page_title: Second Vatican Council
section_title: Objections to the Council
hierarchical_section_title: Second Vatican Council / Objections to the Council
caption_attribution_description: Latina: Missale Romanum ex decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum S. Pii V. Pontificis Maximi jussu editum Clementis VIII. Urbani VIII. et Leonis XII. Auctoritate recognitum. Editio decima octava post alteram uti typicam a S.C.R. declaratam. Ratisbonae,Romae, Neo Eboraci et Cincinnati. Sumptibus et typis Friderici Pustet, S. Sedis Apostilicae et Sacr. Rit. Congr. Typigraphi. MDCCCCXI.English: "Missale Romanum" 18th edition, 1915
context_page_description: The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the Second Vatican Council, Vatican II, or V2, addressed relations between the Catholic Church and the modern world. The Council, through the Holy See, was formally opened under the pontificate of Pope John XXIII on 11 October 1962 and was closed under Pope Paul VI on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on 8 December 1965.
  Several changes resulted from the Council, including the renewal of consecrated life with a revised charism, ecumenical efforts towards dialogue with other religions, and the universal call to holiness, which according to Pope Paul VI was "the most characteristic and ultimate purpose of the teachings of the Council".
  According to Pope Benedict XVI, the most important and essential message of the Council is "the Paschal Mystery as the center of what it is to be Christian and therefore of the Christian life, the Christian year, the Christian seasons".
context_section_description: The questioning of the nature of and even validity of the Second Vatican Council continues to be a contending point of rejection and conflict among various religious communities, some of which are not in communion with the Catholic Church. In particular, two schools of thought may be discerned:
  Various Traditionalist Catholics, who claim that the modernising reforms that resulted both directly or indirectly from the Council consequently brought detrimental effects, heretical acts, and indifference to the customs, beliefs, and pious practices of the Church before 1962. In addition, they say there is a doctrinal contradiction between the Council and earlier papal statements regarding faith, morals and doctrine declared prior to the Council itself. Furthermore, they claim that the Council decentralised the previous notion of the Catholic Church's supremacy over other religions while demoralising its longstanding pious practices of religiosity. They assert that, since there were no dogmatic proclamations defined within the documents of the Council, such documents are not infallible and therefore not canonically binding for faithful Catholics, most notably when such concilliar documents give way, as they say, to the loose implementation of longstanding Catholic doctrines that were previously sanctioned and upheld by former Popes prior to 1962. In light of this, most Traditionalist Catholics will exclusively adhere to the 1917 Code of Canon Law.
  Sedevacantists go beyond this in asserting that, after breaking with Catholic tradition and espousing heresy, present and future popes cannot legitimately claim the papacy.  Therefore it remains vacant, until another papal claimant formally abandons the Vatican II council and re-establishes former traditional norms (prior to 1962).
  The most recent edition of the 1983 Code of Canon Law states that Catholics may not disregard the teaching of an ecumenical council even if it does not propose such as definitive. Accordingly, it also maintains the view that the present living Pope alone judges the criterion of membership for being in in communio with the Church. The present canon law further articulates:
  Although not an assent of faith, a religious submission of the intellect and will must be given to a Doctrine which the Supreme Pontiff or the College of Bishops declares concerning faith or morals when they exercise the authentic Magisterium, even if they do not intend to proclaim it by definitive act; therefore, the Christian faithful are to take care to avoid those things which do not agree with it.
caption: An illustrated 1911 Roman Missal reprint from its 1884 edition
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