Vatican 2

The second Vatican council was in session from 1962-1965 to make the church more accessible and relevant to modern people. The main issue in Vatican 2 was ecumenism (the relation of the Catholic church to other religions and denominations. The council relaxed the Catholic church's attitude towards other faiths. They placed emphasis on reaching out to other religions and creating a conversation with them. They also focused on the passion, death, resurrection, and glorification of Christ. Catholics call this the"Paschal Mystery". This was meant to bring Catholics, Evangelicals, and Protestants. The other changes made were modern music was now allowed in church services, changes in the liturgy. An example of this is that the priest could now face the congregation at mass rather than have his back turned to them, and mass could be performed in the local language and not in the Latin language. Also, rules were dropped forbidding the reading of the Protestant Bible, and Catholics were no longer forbidden from attending Protestant church services.
Overall the whole point of Vatican 2 was to make the church friendlier to the Jews, and much more assessable to the layman and others outside the Catholic religion.
Vatican 2 did not change its doctrine. It still claims that the Roman Catholic church is the only true church. It did admit that other churches may have elements of truth in them. "Pope Paul VI, who oversaw the latter sessions of Vatican 2, made a new doctrine honoring Mary as "Mother of the Church."
Vatican 2 updated the liturgy to make it acceptable to everyone. After three years of discussion, the result is still Catholicism and all of its false doctrines.                                                                                                                                                                                                          Reformed theologian Loraine Boettner, who lived in the time of Vatican II and studied it closely, wrote that the council “makes it abundantly clear that Rome has no intention of revising any of her basic doctrine, but only of updating her methods and techniques for more efficient administration and to present a more attractive appearance. This is designed to make it easier for the Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Protestant churches to return to her fold. There is no indication that she has any intentions of entering into genuine give-and-take church unity negotiations. Her purpose is not union, but absorption. Church union with Rome is strictly a one-way street. The age-old danger that Protestantism has faced from the Roman Church has not diminished; in fact, it may well have increased. For through this less offensive posture and this superficial ecumenicism, Rome is much better situated to carry out her program of eliminating opposition and moving into a position of world dominance. An infallible church simply cannot repent” (from the preface of Roman Catholicism, 1985).