Vatican I Changes anyone?

[SilverAvenger]

Can anyone tell me what were the big changes that the Vatican I council brought to the Church? I’ve been searching everywhere and I can’t find any relevant information apart that it brought the dogma of Papal Infalibility.

 

[commenter]

Can anyone tell me what were the big changes that the Vatican I council brought to the Church? I’ve been searching everywhere and I can’t find any relevant information apart that it brought the dogma of Papal Infalibility.

I would say it confirmed, or clarified, or made explicit this dogma.

 

[Ad_Orientem]

The Council fathers had intended to treat a wide range of subjects, both in doctrine and discipline, including the nature of the Church, marriage, seminaries, catechisms, religious orders, secret societies, and the Eastern rites. The threat and eventual outbreak of war between Western European nations ultimately interrupted the Council, so that it only produced two relatively short documents: one on faith and one on the Church.

The first document defends the faith against rationalism, materialism, and atheism, and the second document defines the authority of the Successor of Peter over the universal Church.

Read more here and here.

 

[Abu]

SilverAvenger #1
Can anyone tell me what were the big changes that the Vatican I council brought to the Church?

In *The Teaching Church in Our Time *(Daughters of St Paul, 1978), Fr Robert I Bradley, S.J., (Ph.D.), brings out the achievements of Vatican I in the chapter The Teaching Church Yesterday and Today.

The achievement of Vatican I was “indeed great – and all the greater, by the way, for the fact that this Council was allowed by Providence to exist for only a few months. …It produced only two documents, but both of them are highly significant for our history. The first was the Constitution Dei Filius, which definitively set the relationship between faith and reason – and therefore, by a kind of extrapolation, between the sacred and he secular, which was destined to be the matrix for all the the church’s teaching in the century that followed. The second document was the Constitution, Pastor Aeternus, which reaffirmed the Papal primacy and defined the infallibility of the Papal Magisterium……But what proved to be the most enduringly significant achievement of Vatican I was neither of these monumental statements by and about the extraordinary Magisterium. Rather, it was the ‘ordinary Magisterium’, as canonized by the Council, viz., the continuing contact – by encyclical letter or otherwise – of the common Father with his brothers in the episcopacy and the whole body of the faithful, concerning the common teaching of the universal Church on Her faith and on all matters pertinent to that faith.” [p 101].

So what became “official (was) the First Vatican Council’s canonization of the term ‘Magisterium’, Along with the important distinction within it, viz., between the ‘extraordinary’ and the ‘ordinary’ exercises of that same one ‘Magisterium’.

Thus:
“1) In the content of Her teaching, we see the Church in Her most formal and extraordinary forum – viz., a General Council – defining truths of the natural order. And 2) in the manner of Her teaching, we see the Church in this same extraordinary forum declaring that She has an ordinary forum, the pronouncements of which are to be held by ‘divine and Catholic faith.’ ”
p 100].