Vatican City, Oct 30, 2005 / 22:00 pm
As the Church prepares to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the conclusion of Vatican Council II in December, Pope Benedict yesterday, reflected on the historic and continued value of the documents that the council produced, particularly, for the life of the Church today.
The Pope delivered his remarks shortly before praying his weekly Angelus prayer with a crowd of thousands gathered in St. Peter’s Square.
The Church recently celebrated the anniversary of the seventh Vatican II council session on October 28th. That session was followed in 1965 by another three, before finally closing on December 8th of that year.
The Pope appeared at his study window yesterday and recalled how "most of the conciliar documents were approved during the final phase of that historic ecclesial event, which had begun three years earlier."