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Following a remark by Cardinal Suenens at the end of the second session that women were absent from the council, pope Paul appointed 15 women to be lay auditors during the third Session. Eventually 23 women, including 10 religious, would sit in on debates as official auditors.
Participants in the Second Vatican Council recommended the restoration of the ancient permanent diaconate with votes taken in October 1963 and September 1964. [2] The Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen gentium) said that: [3] …the diaconate can in the future be restored as a proper and permanent rank of the hierarchy.
In the period between the Reformation and the Second Vatican Council, mainstream theologians continued to oppose the priestly ordination of women, appealing to a mixture of scripture, church tradition and natural law. [Note 1] Even so, mainstream theologians did not dismiss the ordination of women as deacons. [citation needed]
In 1963, all of the Catholic Church leaders were called together to meet in the Vatican, this was called: The Second Vatican Council. In this council, the Church leaders voted on many different topics such as: pastoral duties of bishops in the church, ministry and the life of priest, and addressed religious life issues.
In Western nations like the US, Catholic women continued to be heavily involved in areas like health and education. The Second Vatican Council of the 1960s liberalized the strictures of Catholic religious life; however, in the latter half of the 20th century, vocations for women in the West entered a steep decline. This was accompanied by the ...
The rite of consecration of virgins for women living in the world was reintroduced in 1970, under Pope Paul VI, in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. [2] It is based on the template of the practice of the velatio virginum going back to the Apostolic era, especially the early virgin martyrs. The consecration of virgins for nuns who made ...
Sister Mary Luke Tobin SL (May 16, 1908 – August 24, 2006) was an American Roman Catholic religious sister, and one of only 15 women auditors invited to the Second Vatican Council, and the only American woman of the three women religious permitted to participate on the Council's planning commissions.
The ultimate inspiration for the work which gave rise to the document was the Second Vatican Council.The immediate occasion was a National Pastoral Congress of 2,000 men and women convoked by the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales in Liverpool in 1980 to discuss a variety of potentially difficult issues.