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Ecumenical Council wraps second session with reforms
At St Peters, 2000 bishops streamed in as the Ecumenical Council nears the end of its second session. It completed a liturgical reform to use modern languages in Mass, endorsed collegial bishops governance, and debated decentralizing church authority. A deacon order was restored and ecumenism strides were made toward Christian unity and religious liberty.
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Ecumenical Council
Council Fathers
Universal Church
Paul VI
College of Bishops
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U. S. National Catholic Welfare Conference
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Vatican
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