pre-conciliar
preconciliar

The pre-conciliar Church was, publicly at least, remarkably homogeneous in opinion.

The second type is that of rather specific passages which contain a recognizable shift on pre-conciliar teaching.

Nonetheless, its generally negative rhetoric with regard to the religious other has the hallmark of the pre-conciliar era.

In the pre-conciliar church most Catholic families were proud if one or more of their members chose to be a religious and/or a priest.

It would be quite impossible to find a comparable commendation of theological, or indeed ecclesiastical, pluralism coming from pre-conciliar Rome.

The congregation uses the pre-conciliar Latin liturgy and focuses particularly on Gregorian chant.

Progressives, he says, tend to speak disparagingly of the pre-Conciliar Church as hierarchical, ghetto-like and patriarchal.

In your note book list some of the ways that post-conciliar theological language differs from pre-conciliar language in describing sacraments.

This highly biblical term, though basic to the New Testament and frequently used in early liturgical prayers, had almost completely disappeared from pre-conciliar ecclesiology.

Devotion to Our Lady of Fatima and fidelity to traditional Catholic theology (with an emphasis on pre-conciliar theological emphases) are considered important.

However, differently from the pre-conciliar documents it precedes these "sendings" with reference to the one who sends: the eternal Father (LG 2, 3 & 4).

While the list could undoubtedly be extended, the eight chosen here all have great weight, and not one of them is really imaginable as appearing in a pre-conciliar Roman document.

Athenagoras inaugurated regular contacts of the Orthodox Churches, especially through Pre-conciliar meetings in preparation for the Great and Holy Council.

Equally important, leadership will pass from those raised in the strictures of the pre-conciliar church to a generation formed in the fluid, conflict-ridden years after Vatican II.

In the pre-conciliar days, the leaders of this trend were members of "The Cairo Circle", a group of young priests centered on the Patriarchal College in Cairo.

He is not, as Carroll seems to want to make him, a prelate or theologian who, in any fashion, means to take the church back to its pre-conciliar antipathy toward Jews and Judaism.

Use of the word in the plural is utterly uncharacteristic of pre-conciliar Roman theology, stress being always upon the unity and singleness of the Catholic and Roman Church.

Where post-conciliar theology will say that the Eucharist gives the Church its unity, pre-conciliar theology would undoubtedly have been most likely to declare that it was the papacy that did so.

Hence the revival of the very ancient order of the diaconate (in the pre-conciliar Church the diaconate was indeed conferred, but only on people who were almost immediately afterwards going to be ordained priests).

After a gruelling examination by the pre-conciliar Holy Office, much of it directed at Lubich herself by the notoriously conservative Cardinal Ottaviani, Focolare was granted official Vatican approval in the mid-1960s.

On the other hand enemies of modern principles, and therefore of the modern world as such, say that the "renewal" has devastated the Catholic Church and is still devastating what little remains of pre-Conciliar Catholicism..

Dupuis noted that Vatican II reflected pre-conciliar theology on this point and failed to make a distinction between the church and the reign of God, a failure shared by the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

In 1917, Andronik became Bishop of Perm and Kungur, and became one of the seven hierarchs in the pre-conciliar synod preparing for the Local Council of the Russian Church in Moscow.

The Bologna School is a historical school of ecclesiastical history, specializing in the history of the Second Vatican Council, and largely supportive of the so-called hermeneutic of rupture, creating a pre-Conciliar and post-Conciliar period.

Nothing of this was to be found in mainstream pre-conciliar Roman ecclesiology (though it is to be found in 1950s books representative of the 'new theology' by scholars like de Lubac and Congar, writers under much official suspicion at the time).