Word: postulata
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...January 1959 that he intended to call the church's first council since Vatican Council I in 1869-70, and the 20th since Nicaea in 325. As a start, every Catholic bishop in the world was asked what topics the council should consider; the 2,150 replies (called postulata) have been compiled into a secret, 20-volume report from which the agenda will be drawn. Decisions on that agenda will be made, according to majority vote, by more than 2,000 cardinals, archbishops, bishops, abbots and Eastern Rite Patriarchs, assisted by 300 or so of the church...
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