Word: veterum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...responsible for it all. What is extraordinary is that the change was visible in the space of one year: 1962. Before that, John had been a puzzling Pope-openly warm and friendly to people, but curiously disappointing and conservative in many of his acts. His apostolic constitution, Veterum Sapientfi, was a brusque warning to those who would remove Latin from its place of primacy in the church. The 1960 Synod of Rome, a highly publicized effort to bring new spiritual vitality to the clergy of the city, produced only a series of restrictive and uninteresting rules...
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