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church's openness to the modern world. The Vatican Council II was announced by Pope

John XXIII. The Council had met every fall for four years in order to update the Church.

The meaning of the Vatican Council II was the modernizing of the Catholic Church. The

council had brought the Church from its former Hierarchical ways, to the modern Church

The Vatican Council II is significant in our study of the Church today because it revived

the Church, and made it what it is today. Without the Vatican Council II we would not be

a communal church, that is a church in which all are equal under the eyes of God. The

Council had brought many changes to the Church some of which were relations between

Christians and Jews, religious freedom, the role of church laity, contacts with Christians

and non-Christians, and the role and education of priests and bishops, to name a few. If

we had not learned about the Vatican Council II we would be totally oblivious to the

modern Church, and the reformations in which had taken place.

It is significant for me to have learned this now because I feel as though I now play a

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