Download or read book The Vatican Council, 1869-1870 written by Cuthbert Butler and published by London : Collins and Harvill [1962]. This book was released on 1962 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written before the advent of the Second Vatican Council. We find this note in the Preface: "The news that there will shortly be held a second Vatican Council has awakened world-wide interest. Many questions at once suggest themselves. What is a General Council of the Church? What sort of agenda will the Council have before it? What are the powers of such a Council? What happened at the First Vatican Council, nearly a hundred years ago? The present work ... provides a convenient answer to the last of these questions."