Church Council every 100 yrs?

[Mannyfit75]

Are Church Council done every 100 yrs?

This is what I noticed:

The First Vatican Council was summoned by Pope Pius IX by the bull Aeterni Patris of June 29, 1868. The first session was held in Saint Peter’s Basilica on December 8, 1869. It was the 20th ecumenical council of the Catholic church. Nearly 800 church leaders attended.

The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, or Vatican II, was an Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church opened under Pope John XXIII in 1962 and closed under Pope Paul VI in 1965. It is reckoned as the twenty-first ecumenical council by the Roman Catholic Church. Four future pontiffs took part in the council’s opening session: Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, who on succeeding Pope John XXIII took the name of Paul VI; Bishop Albino Luciani, the future Pope John Paul I; Bishop Karol Wojtyła, who became Pope John Paul II; and 35-year-old Father Joseph Ratzinger, present as a theological consultant, who more than forty years later became Pope Benedict XVI.

They seem to be 100 yrs apart. Do you there will be an another Council? If there is another Council what issues should be discussed?

I think the possibility of Reunifying with our Eastern Orthodox Christians should be discussed.

 

[Malcolm_McLean]

Are Church Council done every 100 yrs?

They seem to be 100 yrs apart. Do you there will be an another Council? If there is another Council what issues should be discussed?

I think the possibility of Reunifying with our Eastern Orthodox Christians should be discussed.

I am sure that there will be another Council, though it may not be in my lifetime. About once every hundred years is the frequency, though there is no fixed rule. Times change. Nowadays we have instant communications and any bishop can simply pick up the phone to any other, which affects things, though whether to make fact to face Councils more or less necessary is a good question.

Vatican II has so far failed to bring about reunification, but give it time. My favourite historical quote is from a Chinese historian who, asked about the effect of the French Revolution on European politics, said “it is too early to tell”. He was absolutely right. We are only now beginning to see the longe-term results.