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Peritus (Latin for "expert") is the title given to Roman Catholic theologians attending an ecumenical council to give advice. At the Second Vatican Council, some periti (the plural form) accompanied individual bishops or groups of bishops from various countries. Others were formally appointed advisers to the whole council.[citation needed]

Cardinal Yves Congar served as a consultant to the council upon the invitation of Pope John XXIII, but was hired as personal and expert theologian (peritus) at the council to Bishop Jean-Julien Weber of Strasbourg. This allowed him to attend all the general sessions and participate in discussions of any commission to which he was invited.[1]

The periti of Vatican II,[2] although their official status designates them as at the service of the council, were most often at the service of the currents which clashed at the council, either on the side of a reform of the church (acceptance of religious freedom, revision of church–state relations, reassessment of relations with other religions), or on the side of the continuation of a clash of Catholicism with the other institutions and currents of society, in the wake of the councils of Trent and Vatican I (especially for the experts close to Coetus Internationalis Patrum[3]).

As for the US, there were 86 periti altogether during the four sessions of the council.[4]

References

  1. ^ Woodrow, Alain (26 October 2002). "Diary of an insider". The Tablet. Archived from the original on February 1, 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  2. ^ Weiser, François. "Les experts au concile Vatican II : socio-histoire d'un affrontement culturel à l'intérieur du champ religieux catholique". Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  3. ^ Roy-Lysencourt, Philippe. "Le Coetus internationalis Patrum, un groupe d'opposants au sein du Concile Vatican II". Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  4. ^ Weiser, François. "The Periti of the United States and the Second Vatican Council: Prosopography of a Group of Theologians". Retrieved 3 October 2018.
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