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Vatican II

  1. The popular name for the Second Vatican Council, an assembly of all the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church held from 1962 to 1965. The bishops ordered a large-scale liberalization and modernization of practices in their church.


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So why then is the Values Voters Summit just a gathering of Christian Evangelicals and Catholics who don't like Vatican II?

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