THE IDEOLOGY AND POLITICS OF THE VATICAN IN THE CONDITIONS OF TRANSITION TO THE GLOBALIZED WORLD ORDER
At the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, Catholicism, adjusting to the demands of the era in order to preserve its influence, allowed for a renewed turn at the second Vatican Council, which marked the beginning of Ecumenical openness of the Church, which had serious consequences, expressed in the spread of religious pluralism and tolerance, in the active process of pacification, which accelerated the de-Christianization of Western society. …