Good habits back in the agenda

After a 2-year hiatus, Catholic School will be in the weekly agenda. Some new ideas will be explored and some interesting storied will be shared (or so I think/say).

In terms of catholic school, one of the biggest events in the XX Century was the Second Vatican Council where Pope John XXIII began to, in my words, give the Church to his Church (well, it makes sense, as church means community).

Actually, the Second Vatican Council spanned over three years (September 1962 ~ December 1965) and was closed by Pope Paul VI. Incidently, in that great meeting one could find all the men that were to become Pope until today: Bishops Albino Luciani (Pope John Paul I), Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II) and Father Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), present as a theological consultant.

Generally, the Council was an overhaul of the way the Church conducted itself and celebrated the liturgy, so that she would be more accessible to the people (if you ask your parent, they may still remember when masses were said in Latin with the priest facing the altar but not the gathered assembly). Therefore, the subject was not just any given element of the Church, but rather the entire Church. This was no small undertaking, and by the time it was over, it spawned four Constitutions, nine Decrees, and three Declarations.