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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Second Vatican Council was the universal Catholic Church's response to God's love and to Jesus' command to feed his sheep, Pope Francis said, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the council's opening. The council reminded the church of what is 'essential,' the pope said: 'a church madly in love with its Lord and with all the men and women whom he loves,' one that 'is rich in Jesus and poor in assets,' a church that 'is free and freeing.' Pope Francis presided over the

The 1962-1964 council reminded the church of what is

The Second Vatican Council was the universal Catholic Church’s response to God’s love and to Jesus’ command to feed his sheep, Pope Francis said, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the council’s opening.

In his homily, Pope Francis said the council marked a renewed effort to feed God's sheep, not just Catholic, but all people

Catholics must be careful, he said, because “both the ‘progressivism’ that lines up behind the world and the ‘traditionalism’ that longs for a bygone world are not evidence of love, but of infidelity,” the pope said.