The Second Vatican Council (Latin: Concilium Oecumenicum Vaticanum Secundum or informally known as Vatican II) addressed relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the modern world. It was the twenty-first Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church and the second to be held at Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. The council, through the Holy See, formally opened under the pontificate of Pope John XXIII on 11 October 1962 and closed under Pope Paul VI on 8 December 1965.
Second Vatican Council in 1632[]
The upper levels of the Catholic Church, including Pope Urban VIII, were aware of the Second Vatican Council, as the information Father Lawrence Mazzare had sent about the Church's future in the OTL included a copy of the Council's papers.
In mid-1635, while in hiding at the remote, and abandoned, villa of Molini, Urban took advantage of the situation to decide what to do about the Second Vatican Council. Following a series of debates between Mazzare and Luke Wadding, he decided that, while it was valid, it was the product of a world shaped by centuries of history that had not yet happened, and was therefore not specifically binding on the 17th century Church. He therefore decided that he would convene a contemporary equivalent of it, even if he could not hold it in the Vatican.[1]
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- ↑ The debates between Mazzare and Wadding begin in ch. 36 of 1635: The Papal Stakes, and are a major sub-thread of the last half of the book.