 Within the first two weeks of the first session of the Council ( October to December 1962 ) all seventy @-@ two of the preparatory schemas had been rejected from consideration . The council rules had stipulated a necessary two @-@ thirds supermajority to reject the schemas . Although only 60 % had voted against the schemas , they were regardless discarded at the intervention of Pope John XXIII , upon the request of the liberal Council Fathers . 
