Vatican II: Papal bull omits reference to lay members of Christ’s faithful people - Vatican Insider

 
A copy of the Constitution with which John XXIII announced the Second Vatican Council back in December 1961 has been presented in the Vatican
It's probably just an act of carelessness. ( .)

Either way, the fact is that the reference to the “fideles laicos” (the lay members of Christ’s faithful people), in the Latin text of the Apostolic Constitution Humanae Salutis, with which Pope John announced the Second Vatican Council on 25 December 1961, is missing.

This was one of the things that were discussions held today in the Synod Hall, in the Vatican, during the presentation of the fifth volume in the series Humanae Salutis bull Limited edition, put together by Scrinium for the Secret Vatican Archive.

the Humanae Salutis contains an idea of the council that John XXIII expected: “The January 1959 speech in which Papa Roncalli announced his intention to convene a Council to the cardinals gathered in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, the bull and the Gaudet Mater Ecclesia allocution of 11 October 1962, the fist day of the Second Vatican Council, show a consistent development. The bull shows the following: a renewed climate of trust and ecumenical horizon.” Melloni thanked Paul VI for giving scholars access to the Council documents straight away.

When answering a question on the scope of enforcement of the Second Vatican Council and how current it was, Mgr. Pagano mentioned liturgical reform and the “strange and conflicting voices,” saying: “When I see those seven bronze candelabras that hang above the cross at some basilica altars, I think to myself how little was understood of the constitution of the Sacrosanctum Concilium liturgy.