Category: Vatican II
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Video: Pope Leo on Vatican II and the liturgy
Musician and liturgist, Fiona Dyball, will present our next ACI webinar on Wednesday 19 August looking at Pope Leo’s catechesis on the teaching of the Second Vatican Council on liturgy.
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Video: Pope Leo on lay people in the Church
Fr Max Vodola from Catholic Theological College and the University of Divinity will present the next ACI webinar on Wednesday 20 May 2026 looking at Pope Leo’s catechesis on the role of lay people in the Church.
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Video: Catholics and the Bible
Dr Paul Lentern presented our March ACI webinar on the topic “Catholics and the Bible” exploring the way in which the Council helped change attitudes to reading the Bible.
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The vast field of the lay apostolate
Vatican II emphasises the mission of lay people, Pope Leo said as he began his catechesis on Chapter IV of the Vatican II Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium.
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Prioritise lay vocation and mission
The Australian Church must prioritise formation for the lay vocation and mission, participants at an Adelaide Study Day on 6 December 2025 have said.
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We are called to be a leaven: Bishop Long
“In a secular age, those who live and work ‘in the world’ are called to be leaven, transforming the culture from within, invisibly yet powerfully,” writes Parramatta Bishop Vincent Long Van Nguyen.
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Video: Cardijn Lecture: Keegan at Vatican II
This year, ACI is pleased to announce that the Cardijn Lecture for 2024 will be delivered by Dr Patricia Jones on Thursday 14 November.
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Pat Keegan, first lay person to address Vatican II
On 13 October 1964, Patrick Keegan took the floor to speak to the bishops of the Second Vatican Council, the first lay person to speak in a General Congregation, writes Pat Jones in The Tablet.
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Video: Bishop Peter Cullinane: Lay mission & vocation
Bishop Peter Cullinane, emeritus bishop of Palmerston North, Aotearoa-New Zealand, presented our April webinar on “The Mission and Vocation of Lay People.”
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Webinar: Bishop Peter Cullinane
Emeritus Bishop Peter Cullinane of Palmerston North, Aotearoa-New Zealand. will address our next webinar on Sat 6 April on the lay vocation and mission.
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Video: Paul Lentern on the lay vocation
This is the video from our March ACI webinar with Paul Lentern on “Promoting the mission and vocation of lay people.”
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Barron highlights vocation of the 99%
Bishop Robert Barron, founder of Word on Fire ministries and bishop of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota in the USA, has said that he emphasised the vocation of lay people during the First Assembly of the Synod on Synodality in Rome in October 2023.
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Contribution to the Synod First Assembly
Over 120 current and former local, national and international leaders of various lay apostolate movements and groups from 32 countries – many from the Global South – have added their names to a Contribution to the First Assembly of the Synod on Synodality.
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RIP Betty Villa
Betty Villa, vice-president of the International YCW from 1961-65, has died in her native Philippines at the age of 96.
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Healing the split between faith and life
Expecting only those with a “religious vocation”, a miniscule percentage of the total Catholic population, to carry the mission of the whole is a recipe for disaster, writes Sr Christine Burke IBVM in Catholic Outlook.
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The YCS in the 1960s and its response to Vatican II
The life of the youth movements of the Catholic Church, and the Young Christian Students (YCS) in particular, cannot be disengaged from the events of Vatican II and the 1960s.
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Video: Sr Maureen Sullivan on The Women of Vatican II
Thanks to American Dominican Sister Maureen Sullivan OP, who presented the ACI webinar for March 2023 on the theme “The Women of Vatican II.”
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Webinar: The women of Vatican II: Sr Maureen Sullivan O.P.
For our next ACI webinar we are proud to present Sr Maureen Sullivan, who will share her research on the women auditors who attended and contributed to the Second Vatican Council.
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Cardijn’s greatest battle: Lay apostolate vs apostolate of the faithful
Marking the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Council, Stefan Gigacz outlines struggle to make understood the concept of the specifically lay apostolate.
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Video: Gerard Philips, theologian, senator and promoter of the laity
Leuven Emeritus Professor Mathijs Lamberigts recalls the life of Gerard Philips on the 50th anniversary of his death.
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Webinar: Gerard Philips, architect of Lumen Gentium
Remembering the Belgian promoter of the laity and key figure at Vatican II on the 50th anniversary of his death.
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The Pact of the Catacombs and the Pietralata Message
A new ACI website explaining the role of Joseph Cardijn and Helder Camara in these events.
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Plenary Council prioritises lay apostolate formation
And endorses see-judge-act method
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Forum: Lumen Gentium 31 and the lay apostolate
ACI calls forum to discuss implementation of its proposals to the Australian Plenary Council.