Through his policy of aggiornamento the pope opened the church to the modern world.

Aggiornamento, in Italian, means to bring up to date.

Risk prevention and management: the need for "aggiornamento" from a sustainable development angle 1-1.

The party may find its attempt at a constitutional aggiornamento unnecessarily divisive.

His favourite words were aggiornamento ('bringing up to date') and convivienza ('living together').

It intended to engage the Church more closely with the present world (aggiornamento), which was described by its advocates as an "opening of the windows".

Is the church undergoing a true aggiornamento, a relevant renewal, a bringing of the church into the modern world?

They are untouched by modern craze for aggiornamento"."

The conciliar document most often associated with the aggiornamento is Gaudium et spes.

Much in his traditional clerical formation rebelled against the new spirit of renewal, aggiornamento, emanating from the Council.

This was the time of aggiornamento in the Roman Catholic Church and in many religious communities.

But the aggiornamento was short-lived.

The Aggiornamento addresses developments and biographies.

All this was a miracle which was deeply and self-consciously anti-accommodationist, anti- aggiornamento one might well say.

Called to be a council father at Vatican II, Dumouchel became directly involved in the aggiornamento of the church.

Suenens was a leading voice at the Second Vatican Council and advocated aggiornamento in the Church.

II edizione, con aggiornamento bibliografico, Roma 2000.

He sought to stem ecumenism in the Catholic Church in America, and was once described as not being open to Aggiornamento.

In 1976, Penang hosted the Aggiornamento for all bishops and priests in West Malaysia.

His ecclesiology emphasizes the importance of a participatory Church that is necessary in carrying out the aggiornamento called for by the Second Vatican Council.

In light of the Second Vatican Council, the congregations engaged in various apostolic activity went through a profound process of aggiornamento.

More important was Pope John's statement that the purpose of the Council was the aggiornamento of the Catholic Church.

However, Thorez managed to block the "aggiornamento" (trend to "bring things up to date") and eliminated Casanova from all governing bodies in May 1961.

The Italian word, used by John XXIII, was "aggiornamento," updating.

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