COMMENTARY: Vatican II’s often-misread final document is best understood by returning to its central claim: Jesus Christ ...

It is a disturbing irony that one of the most celebrated ecclesiastical documents of the 20th century, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World or Gaudium et Spes (1965), would, in ...

At a time when the first signs of the future crisis were surfacing, the Council had to deal with the issue of the sanctity of marriage and of the family, highlighting personal love and developing the ...

Gaudium et Spes’ reminder of our duty to scrutinize these signs cannot ever be separated from its insistence that this can only occur “in the light of the Gospel” (GS, 4).

"Gaudium et spes envisioned a more outward-looking and engaged church, responsive to the signs of the time, and committed to the well-being of the human family," Cardinal Wilton Gregory said in a ...

This year is the 50 th anniversary of the promulgation of Gaudium et Spes, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.So, just in time, three professors at Creighton University ...

Rome, Italy, Mar 15, 2019 / 10:15 am. Pope Francis said Friday that he senses resistance to Gaudium et spes, a document the pope said he reflected much upon during his Lenten retreat this week.

Washington (AsiaNews) - Celebrating 50 years since the promulgation of the Pastoral Constitution "Gaudium et Spes", the Archbishop of Manila Luis Antonio Tagle is inviting faithful to spread the ...

— Gaudium et Spes para 29, 1965 . Some people claim that the Roman Catholic Church contradicts its own teachings by not allowing women to become priests. In its defence, ...