He appealed to the spirit of the reformist Second Vatican Council of the 1960s.
At last month's synod, Bustros repudiated the teachings of the Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council and embraced the discredited supersessionist theology that Vatican II denounced.
John XXIII was famed for calling the Second Vatican Council in 1962, which ushered in great changes in the Roman Catholic Church's relationship with the modern world.
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The Second Vatican Council, the 1962-65 meetings that brought the church into the modern world, allowed the celebration of the Mass in the vernacular rather than Latin.
He was guided by the firm conviction that many of the ills afflicting the church could be traced to a misreading of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
Many will pray that the new pope is more in the mould of Pope John XXIII, who ushered in the Second Vatican Council that sat for much of the 1960s.
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Two years had elapsed since the Second Vatican Council convened by Pope John XXIII in 1962, which set out to dismantle the charge that Jews were responsible for killing Jesus.
In that sense, admirers of Escriva, who included Pope John Paul II, believe the Spanish saint anticipated the "universal call to holiness" that would be announced by the Second Vatican Council.
Despite a declaration by the Second Vatican Council three decades ago that all good-willed people could be "saved" regardless of their religion, the Christian notion of salvation still relies on evangelism.
They belong to the Society of St Pius X, founded by a French archbishop, Marcel Lefebvre, in 1970 as a protest against the Second Vatican Council's reforms on religious freedom and pluralism.
His theological position hardened and he began to see a need to re-establish authority and direct the Church away from the excesses of liberalism that, in his view, followed the Second Vatican Council.
The Second Vatican Council of the 1960s questioned nearly every tenet and tradition of the church, from the celebration of Mass in Latin to the rules governing the lives of nuns and clergy.
After entering the priesthood in 1951, Father Ratzinger was a strong proponent for some of the changes produced by the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s, which questioned nearly every church tenet and tradition.
One of the most-read traditionalist blogs, "Rorate Caeli, " reacted to the foot-washing ceremony by declaring the death of Benedict's eight-year project to correct what he considered the botched interpretations of the Second Vatican Council's modernizing reforms.
He became a member of the Society of St Pius X, which had been founded by Archbishop Lefebvre in 1970 to counter the reforms in the Church made by the Second Vatican Council during the previous decade.
If that happens, and it is far from certain, it could help fulfil the promise of universality made in the early 1960s at the Second Vatican Council, but which Pope John XXIII did not live to nurse to maturity.
The four bishops have been asked by the Vatican to recognise the authority of the Pope and the Second Vatican Council and talks are planned to seek to resolve the "open questions" in the Church's relationship with the Society of St Pius X.
Before she can officially be made a saint, the Vatican will have formally to attribute a second miracle to her.
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Second, publicly disclose all of the documents within the Vatican's archives that pertain to reports of child sex abuse, the Vatican's response to it and the hierarchy's role in the abuse.
Tens of thousands of Cubans, waving Cuban and Vatican flags, gathered on a humid evening in the island's second city of Santiago, the cradle of the country's 1959 revolution.
The alleged documents leak, along with the firing of the head of the Vatican Bank, are aimed at weakening the authority of the pope's second-in-command, they say.
The Vatican newspaper has endorsed outgoing Italian PM Mario Monti's announcement that he may run for a second term, leading a new coalition.
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