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What are the 2 reasons that the Roman Catholic Church reformed?

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The Church is always concerned with the moral and spiritual life of the faithful, and is always "reforming" in order to meet their needs.

from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980

Reform. Change with a view to improvement. By her nature as a living organism, the Catholic Church has undertaken numerous reforms in her long history. These have been mainly concerned with the moral and spiritual life of the faithful, by the use of elaborate legislative, administrative, and ritual means at the Church's disposal. The term "reform" occurs in the first paragraph of the first document issued by the Second Vatican Council in its Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy. And the desire "to impart an ever-increasing vigor to the Christian life of the faithful" (Introduction) runs as a theme through all the conciliar teaching and the postconciliar directives of the Holy See.

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