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Ireland and Vatican II: Aspects of Episcopal Engagement with and Reception of a Church Council, 1959-1977 Ireland and Vatican II: Aspects of episcopal engagement with and reception of a Church Council, 1959-1977 Gary Carville B.A. A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of PhD Dublin City University Supervisors: Dr Gabriel Flynn, Dr William Murphy School of Theology, Philosophy and Music December 2018 DECLARATION I hereby certify that this material, which I now submit for assessment on the programme of study leading to the award of PhD is entirely my own work, and that I have exercised reasonable care to ensure that the work is original, and does not to the best of my knowledge breach any law of copyright, and has not been taken from the work of others save and to the extent that such work has been cited and acknowledged within the text of my work. Signed: _____________________ (Candidate) ID No.: 55137741 Date: ________________ 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Abbreviations 4 Abstract 5 Introduction 6 1. History of Vatican II and its Reception 15 2. The Irish Bishops at Vatican II: Preparation for and Participation in a Church Council 49 3. The Practical Application of Collegiality and Communion in Ireland 90 4. The Church and Modernisation: the Reception of Gaudium et Spes in Ireland 128 5. Vatican II and Ecumenism: A critical challenge for the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland 161 6. Liturgy and the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland: the Reception of Sacrosanctum Concilium 197 Conclusion 232 Appendix I Some Information on Glenstal Liturgical Congresses 1954-75 240 Bibliography 243 3 Abbreviations AA Apostolicam Actuositatem, Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity, promulgated by the Second Vatican Council, 18 November 1965. AAS Acta Apostolicae Sedis. AD Acta et Documenta Concilio Oecumenico Vaticano II Apparando, Series I, Vol. II, Pars III: Europe, (Hibernia). Ante-Preparatory submissions. AS Acta Synodalia Sacrocancti Concilii Oecumencic Vaticani II CD Christus Dominus, Decree on the Bishops’ Pastoral Office in the Church, promulgated by the Second Vatican Council, 28 October 1965. CDA Clogher Diocesan Archives, Monaghan. COFLA Cardinal O’Fiaich Library & Archives, Armagh. DDA Dublin Diocesan Archives, Clonliffe, Dublin. DH Dignitatis Humanae, Declaration on Religious Freedom, promulgated by the Second Vatican Council, 7 December 1965. DV Dei Verbum, Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, promulgated by the Second Vatican Council, 18 November 1965. GDA Galway Diocesan Archives, Galway. GS Gaudium et Spes, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, promulgated by the Second Vatican Council, 7 December 1965. ICD Irish Catholic Directory (various years), (Dublin: James Duffy & Co. Ltd - from 1977 onwards by The Universe). IM Inter Mirifica, Decree on the means of Social Communication, promulgated by the Second Vatican Council, 4 December 1963. KDA Kilmore Diocesan Archives LG Lumen Gentium, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, promulgated by the Second Vatican Council, 21 November 1964. NAI National Archives of Ireland. NDT New Dictionary of Theology PC Perfectae Caritatis, Decree on the Renewal of Religious Life, promulgated by the Second Vatican Council, 28 October 1965. PRONI Public Records Office of Northern Ireland. SC Sacrosanctum Concilium, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, promulgated by the Second Vatican Council, 4 December 1963. UCD University College Dublin UR Unitatis Redintegratio, Decree of Ecumenism, promulgated by the Second Vatican Council, 21 November 1964. The version of the Second Vatican Council documents used throughout this thesis, unless otherwise stated, is that in the edition by Norman Tanner SJ., Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils: Vol. II, Trent – Vatican II, ed. by Norman Tanner (London: Sheed & Ward, 1990). 4 Gary Carville Ireland and Vatican II: Aspects of episcopal engagement with and reception of a Church Council, 1959-1977 Abstract The Second Vatican Council (1962-65), also referred to as Vatican II, was the most momentous event in the life of the Roman Catholic Church during the twentieth century and it brought to a close what some commentators have described as ‘the long nineteenth century’, a timeline stretching from the period of the French revolution to the 1960s. The council was a call to renewal, or aggiornamento, whereby the church returned to its sources in order to strengthen and deepen its capacity to engage with modern society. This thesis assesses the degree to which Vatican II was received in the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland under the headings of collegiality and communio, the modernisation of Irish society, ecumenism and liturgy. In advance of that, it will examine the historiography of church councils together with various understandings of reception. While the reception of a church council is an ongoing process, the thesis is primarily concentrated on the period from the announcement of Vatican II by Pope John XXIII in January 1959 to the death of Cardinal William Conway in April 1977. The reception of Vatican II in Ireland was, on the one hand, aided by a model of church more accustomed to loyally receiving change by directives from above. On the other hand, it was hampered by a lack of theological and intellectual preparedness among clergy and laity. This affected the capacity of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland to fully realise the renewal which the council sought to achieve. Ireland’s deep-rooted identification with an institutional- based traditional and devotional form of Catholicism, the divided nature of the communities in Northern Ireland, the homogenous nature of Irish society in the Republic of Ireland, and the beginnings of economic and social change within that society, all impacted upon the capacity of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland to receive fully the council from the beginning. 5 Introduction On 8 December 1965, the tenth and final public session of Vatican II took place in St Peter’s Square in Rome, when the council was brought to a conclusion by Pope Paul VI (1963-78). Almost seven years earlier, on 25 January 1959, Paul’s predecessor, Pope John XXIII (1958- 63), had announced his intention to call an ecumenical council. Ecumenical councils are formal gatherings of all the bishops of the universal church, called together by the Pope as Bishop of Rome. Vatican II was the twenty-first such council in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. In calling the council, Pope John had taken the church, especially its Rome-based officials - the curia - by surprise. The intervening period witnessed one of the most intensive and decisive periods in the history of the church. Vatican II was held over four sessions, each held in the autumn of each year from 1962 until 1965. Over two and half thousand bishops and heads of male religious orders, all known as council fathers, travelled to Rome to participate in each session. Many of these, together with other theological experts (known as periti) worked on the various commissions both before and during the council. Furthermore, the council was attended by more than one hundred observers from other Christian churches and by a number of lay observers. The council debates were conducted in Latin, which makes their accessibility somewhat more challenging. Vatican II produced sixteen documents: four constitutions, nine decrees and three declarations. The four constitutions would be central to the council’s reception, acting as pillars around which all the conciliar decrees would inter-relate. The constitutions, in particular, brought into focus the church’s renewed self-understanding, especially the bible-inspired image of the church as the people of God. Vatican II was different from previous councils in that it did not issue condemnations of errors in the church. At its opening on 11 October 1962, Pope John set the pastoral tone for its deliberations and its wide-ranging outcomes which would re-shape the church and open it up to dialogue with other Christians, other faiths and with modern society in general. His opening address called for an updating of the church – aggiornamento. This, he stated, did not mean a diminution of the church’s ‘sacred heritage of truth which she has received from those who went before’ but, rather ‘she must look at the present times which have introduced new 6 conditions and new forms of life, and have opened new avenues for the Catholic apostolate.’1 Pope John outlined what he expected of the council, namely the presentation of Catholic doctrine in a positive and modern way: But our task is not only to guard this precious treasure, as if we were concerned only with antiquity; eagerly and without fear, we must devote ourselves to the task our age demands, pursuing the path which the Church has followed for twenty centuries.2 The aggiornamento sought by Vatican II was therefore not just about updating or modernisation. It was not just about moving forward; it was about the recovery of tradition; the return to sources of the church’s faith – to scripture, the writings of the church fathers (patristics), the liturgy and the quest for Christian unity. These were to be the guiding lights for updating. The pathway upon which Pope John directed the council was one which was under construction for several decades by those involved in movements in these fields of theology. Sometimes described as nouvelle théologie or, more appropriately, ressourcement, they were primarily centred in France, Belgium and Germany.3 To these key concepts we will turn in subsequent chapters. The sixteen documents produced by the council, coupled with the myriad of other documents and directives issued in its aftermath, provided the basis for reforms to be implemented. The reception of the council must be viewed in a wider context. It must be seen not just in terms of the event itself, important though that was, but also in terms of the reforms it unleashed and the ongoing history of their reception.
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