{"id":56926,"date":"2026-01-07T12:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/?p=56926"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:43:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:43:52","slug":"the-popes-catechesis-will-address-vatican-council-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/actualidad\/las-catequesis-del-papa-abordaran-el-concilio-vaticano-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope's catechesis will address Vatican II and evangelization"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pope Leo XIV announced at the General Audience on Wednesday, July 7, that the next catechesis will focus on Vatican Council II through its documents. The announcement was made in the Paul VI Hall before numerous faithful and pilgrims, in the usual languages, including Chinese and Arabic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAfter the Jubilee Year, during which we have reflected on the mysteries of Jesus\u201d life, we are beginning a new cycle of catechesis dedicated to the Second Vatican Council and a re-reading of its documents. This is a valuable opportunity to rediscover the beauty and importance of this ecclesial event,\" the Pope said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The reading was an excerpt from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews, chapter 13, in which the Apostle writes that \u00abChrist is the same yesterday and today, and will be forever.\u00bb He exhorts us \u201cnot to be led astray by any kind of strange doctrines.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The papal decision was based on his predecessors in the See of Peter, beginning with St. John XXIII, who convened the Council, and especially St. Paul VI, who concluded it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, Pope Leo XIV's initial quote was from St. John Paul II, who, at the end of the Jubilee in 2000, stated the following: \u201cI feel more than ever the duty to point to the Council as the great grace from which the Church has benefited in the 20th century\u201d (Apostolic Letter Novo millennio ineunte, 57).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Holy Father Leo XIV recalled that, along with the anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, \u201cin 2025 we will commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council.\u201d And \u201calthough the time separating us from this event is not long, it is also true that the generation of bishops, theologians, and believers of Vatican II are no longer with us today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore, \u201cwe feel called not to stifle prophecy and to continue seeking ways and means to implement the intuitions\u201d of the Council, (\u2026) rereading its documents and reflecting on their content. In fact, it is the Magisterium that still constitutes the guiding star of the Church's journey today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs Benedict XVI taught,\u201d he emphasized in the Audience Leo XIV, \u201cthe conciliar documents have not lost their relevance over the years. On the contrary, their teachings are particularly relevant in the face of the new challenges facing the Church and today's globalized society\u201d (First message after Mass with the cardinal electors, April 20, 2005).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He then reminded Pope Francis: Rediscovering the Council helps us to \u201cgive primacy back to God, to the essential.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Pope also took notice of Monsignor Albino Luciani. The future Pope John Paul I, \u00abat the beginning of the Council, wrote prophetically: \u201cThere is still a need not so much for organizations, methods, or structures, but for deeper and more widespread holiness. (...) It may be that the excellent and abundant fruits of a Council will be seen after centuries and will mature by laboriously overcoming contrasts and adverse situations.\u2018\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Second Vatican Council rediscovered the face of God as Father, who in Christ calls us to be his children. It has looked at the Church in the light of Christ, the light of the peoples, as a mystery of communion and a sacrament of unity between God and his people. It has initiated an important liturgical reform, placing at its center the mystery of salvation and the active and conscious participation of the whole People of God,\u201d Pope Leo XIV recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the same time, \u201cit has helped us to open ourselves to the world and to welcome the changes and challenges of the modern era in dialogue and shared responsibility. As a Church that wishes to open its arms to humanity, echo the hopes and anxieties of peoples, and collaborate in building a more just and fraternal society.\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In conclusion, the Successor of Peter stated that \u201cwhat St. Paul VI said to the Council Fathers at the end of their work remains a criterion of guidance for us today. He affirmed that the hour of departure had come. It was time to leave the conciliar assembly to go out to meet humanity and bring it the good news of the Gospel, in the awareness of having lived a time of grace in which the past, present, and future were condensed (St. Paul VI, Message to the Council Fathers, December 8, 1965). <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
El Papa Le\u00f3n XIV ha anunciado en la Audiencia general de este mi\u00e9rcoles 7 que las pr\u00f3ximas catequesis tendr\u00e1n lugar sobre el Concilio Vaticano II a trav\u00e9s de sus documentos. El anuncio ha sido realizado en el Aula Pablo VI ante numerosos fieles y peregrinos, en las lenguas habituales, incluidos el chino y el \u00e1rabe. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2425,"featured_media":56931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[36,51],"tags":[967,2319],"class_list":["post-56926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-vaticano","tag-concilio-vaticano-ii","tag-papa-leon-xiv"],"yoast_head":"\n