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Resources for canonical study of the First Vatican Council
The Twentieth Ecumenical Council (1869-1870), known commonly as the First Vatican Council or Vatican I, though prematurely suspended as Italy underwent political unification, directly influenced several canons in the coming codification of canon law and helped create the ecclesial climate necessary for such a revolutionary legislative project to be accepted in the wider Church.
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Importance of Vatican I for canon law
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Bl Pius IX about the time of Vatican I |
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Importance of Vatican I for canon law
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Gasparri & Seredi identified eleven canons in the 1917 Code that drew on the First Vatican Council, namely, 1917 CIC 0108, 0218, 0228, 0329, 0334, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1556, 1569, 1880. See Gasparri & Seredi, eds., Fontes IX: 135-136 (info here and here).
Perhaps more importantly, however, the council gave voice to the need to reorganize canon law from its then-current arrangement as an official collection of laws (chiefly, the Decretals of Gregory IX, info here) into, most likely, an integrated code of canons--which is of course what happened a generation later, |
Bl Pius IX about the time of Vatican I |
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Celebration of the council |
The Twentieth Ecumenical Council was formally convoked in June 1868 (this after nearly four years of Roman curial planning) and opened 8 December 1869.
The council met in 89 general congregations held during two sessions or periods and, having promulgated two major documents (see below), was suspended (not concluded) on 20 September 1870 by Pope Bl. Pius IX in his bull, Postquam Dei munere (=), =.
In contrast to the Second Vatican Council, which took place after the appearance of codified canon law in the Church (info here), the First Vatican Council was conducted in accord with various provisions of, for the most part, Decretal Law (info here), but also some older law as found in, for example, Gratian's Concordia (info here).
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The First Vatican Council promulgated two major documents, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith (Dei Filius) and the First Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ (Pastor Aeternus).
N. Tanner, ed., Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, (Sheed & Ward / Georgetown Univ., 199) in 2 vols.
II: 804-809, canon 809-811
II 811-816.
= con. Dei Filius (24 apr 1870), Acta Sanctae Sedis 5 (1869-1870) 481-490, with disciplinary canons at 490-493. ▪ Eng. trans. =
= con. Pastor aeternus (18 iul 1870), Acta Sanctae Sedis 6 (1870-1871) 40-47. ▪ Eng. trans. =
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First Vatican Council in plenary assembly |
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The major fontes cognoscendi for the study of the First Vatican Council are found in the last five volumes of the great collection of conciliar materials produced by Johannes Mansi and his successors, as follows:
• Sacrorum Conciliorum Nova et Amplissima Collectio, Sacrosancti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani pars prima, Acta Praesynodalia =, vol. 49;
• Sacrorum Conciliorum Nova et Amplissima Collectio, Sacrosancti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani pars secunda, Acta Synodalia =, Congreg. I - XXIX, vol. 50;
• Sacrorum Conciliorum Nova et Amplissima Collectio, Sacrosancti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani pars secunda, Acta Synodalia =, Congreg. XXX - L, pars prima, vol. 51;
• Sacrorum Conciliorum Nova et Amplissima Collectio, Sacrosancti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani pars secunda, Acta Synodalia =, Congreg. L, par altera - lXXXVI, vol. 52; and,
• Sacrorum Conciliorum Nova et Amplissima Collectio, Sacrosancti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani pars secunda, Acta Synodalia =, Congreg. LXXXVII - LXXXIX, Acta Deputationum, Postulata, Schemata Decretorum, Promulgatio, Catalogus Patrum, vol. 53.
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Authoritative interpretations
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Reference works |
Several reference works might be of interest to researchers, including:
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Reports and memoirs
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Several contemporaneous reports and/or memoires of council participants are available, including:
• Cuthbert [né Edward Joseph] Butler (English Benedictine, 1858-1934), The Vatican Council: the story told from inside the letters of Bishop Ullathorne’s Letters, (Longman’s, Green, 1930) in 2 vols. ▪ Review: =. Notes: William Ullathorne was an English prelate. ≡ Cuthbert biograph.
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General studies of the council
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In reverse chronological order, some of the more important general studies of the First Vatican Council include:
Other selected studies are indicated under the relevant conciliar document.
Jean-Michel-Alfred Vacant (French priest, 1852-1901), Études Théologiques sur le Constitutions du Concile du Vatican d'après les actés du Concile: La Constitution Dei Filius, (Paris/Lyon, Delhomme et Briguet, 1985), 2 vols. ▪ Review: E. Lingens, Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie 20 (1869) 529-535. Notes: Vacant's original plan seemed to have been to discuss both dogmatic constitutions but only this first study was completed.
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Citations, appearances in law, other information |
The following tiles present two kinds of information: first, official citations for the sixteen documents promulgated by the Second Vatican Council; then, tables indicating where numbered paragraphs of those document were cited by the Legislator in the 1983 (Western) and/or 1990 (Eastern) Codes of Canon Law and occasional supplemental notes. Finally, selected bibliographies of materials on or related to conciliar documents and themes are provided.
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Decree on Eastern Churches (1964)
Formal citation: Sacrosanctum Oecumenicum Concilium Vaticanum II, Decretum de Ecclesiis Orientalibus Catholicis Orientalium Ecclesiarum (21 nov 1964), Acta Apostolicae Sedis 57 (1965) 76-89, or id., Constitutiones, Decreta, Declarationes (Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1966) 223-240; Eng. trans. in A. Flannery, ed., Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post-Conciliar Documents (Catholic Book Publishing, 1975) 441-451, or on-line here. Prominent commentary includes: Johannes Hoeck, in H. Vorgrimler, ed., Commentary on the Documents of Vatican II, (Herder, 1967-1969) in 5 vols., vol. I: 307-331.
Seventeen of the 30 (i.e., 57%) provisions of Orientalium Ecclesiarum were cited a total of 21 times in the 1983 Code, as follows:
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Selected studies: = • Donald Logan, "The 1875 statement of the German bishops on episcopal powers", The Jurist 21 (1961) 285-295. • James Hennesey (=), First Council of the Vatican: the American Experience (Herder, 1963) 341 pp.
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Vincent Gasser (French prelate, 1809-1879), The Gift of Infallibility, trans. J. O’Connor, (Ignatius Press, 2008) 158 pp., ISBN: 978-1-58617-174-2. Required text. · Vatican I, con. Pastor aeternus (18 iul. 1870), Acta Sanctae Sedis 6 (1870-1871) 40-47, esp. ch. IV.· Oath against Modernism (1904)· 1917 CIC 1322-1326
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