Category: Gaudium et Spes
2025: YCW centenary and other anniversaries
The biggest jocist anniversary of the year is indisputably the centenary of the official foundation of the Belgian Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne or JOC in 1925.
Marx, Houtart, Wojtyla and the “See” in Gaudium et Spes
Many would be surprised to learn that the introduction on The Human Condition in the World of Today to, Gaudium et Spes, was originally drafted by an avowed Marxist.
The Church in the world today or the modern world?
The long title in English for the Vatican II document often known simply as Gaudium et Spes is “Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World” – at least that’s what it says on the Vatican website.
