 Considerable change in this doctrine on salvation is reflected by 1965 in the conciliar "Declaration on Religious Freedom" of the Second Vatican Council.In cases of dialogue with the churches and ecclesial communities of the west, however, who are in dialogue specifically with the Latin Church from which they derive, the term Roman Catholic is ambiguous whether it refers to the Latin Church specifically, or the entire Catholic communion, as in the dialogue with Archbishop of Canterbury Donald Coggan on 29 April 1977,

Other examples include occasional, minor addresses or lectures, usually written by minor curial staff.Pope John Paul II referred to himself as "the Head of the Roman Catholic Church" (29 September 1979).