 The Second Vatican Council did not use the term "Roman Catholic Church", and in one important passage of the dogmatic constitution "Lumen gentium" replaced it with an equivalent phrase, "the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the bishops in union with that successor," while also giving in a footnote a reference to two earlier documents in which the word "Roman" was used explicitly.But as the prominent theologian at the Council Karl Rahner pointed out, by the 1960s the Church had made its second major transition.The first had been from Jewish to Western-Gentile.