Aggiornamento was one of the key words used during the Second Vatican Council both by bishops and the clergy attending the sessions, and by the media covering it. It was used to mean throwing open the doors of the Church in a desire to dialogue with the outside world. It was the name given to the pontifical program of John XXIII in a speech he gave on January 25, 1959. Paul VI went on to adopt Pope John's motto for himself[1].
The Italian term for this "bringing things up-to-date"[2] and ridding the church of outdated practices and attitudes would "ever be associated with Pope John XXIII in the same manner that perestroika will always be with Mikhail Gorbachev.[3]"
Bellairs Corpus[]
- It is asked if the "advocates of this so-called ‘aggiornamento’ [will] denude the Church of all its special clubs and devotions” (Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies, 97).
References[]
- ↑ Wikipedia: Aggiornamento
- ↑ Wiktionary: Aggiornamento
- ↑ Correspondence with Alfred Myers.