Tag: Gaudium et Spes
Remembering Pierre Haubtmann, redactor of Gaudium et Spes
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the tragic death of Pierre Haubtmann, the co-author, compiler and editor of the final, definitive version of the Vatican II Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the World of Today, Gaudium et Spes.
The Australian Plenary Council: A Cardijn perspective
For the first time in over 80 years, the Australian Catholic Church is holding a Plenary Council, which will take place over two sessions in October 2021 and July 2022. It has the potential to shape the Church’s role for perhaps the rest of this century.
Universal brotherhood and solidarity: Cardijn & JPII
It’s a hundred years this month since the birth on 18 May 1920 of Karol Wojtyla, now better known as St John Paul II. Remarkably, the Polish pontiff was the fifth and last 20th century pope known personally by Cardijn
The JOC influence at Vatican II
Among his many other engagements throughout his long life, François Houtart took part as a peritus or expert at Vatican II.
Louis-Joseph Lebret: Architect of Populorum Progressio
How did the Cardijn method come to be used in the drafting of Populorum Progressio?
The signs of the times mystery
“The signs of the times”. Since Vatican II, this expression from Gaudium et spes (§4) has entered the mainstream of Catholic social teaching.
Plus ça change: Synod bishops battle the See Judge Act
Several working groups at the current Synod on the Family are questioning the utility of the method for an “ecclesial document”, according to press reports.
See Judge Act: From John XXIII to Pope Francis
Great to see the Synod bishops following the See Judge Act method in their work as their Mid-Term Report shows. But as we’ve seen previously, there seems to be confusion in some minds over where the method came from.
A Cardijn apostle, Bishop Manuel Larrain
After Cardijn was left off the list of experts for the First Session at Vatican II, one of the bishops who, according to Helder Camara, worked (successfully) to have him appointed to the Commission on Lay Apostolate, was the Chilean Bishop Manuel Larrain of Talca.
See, judge, act at Vatican II
It has often been noted that the Vatican II document Gaudium et Spes follows what is sometimes called “the inductive method”, starting from the bottom and moving up from the specific to the general. Here’s how that came about.
Deja vu of the doctrinal-inductive clash at Vatican II
Here is a nice bit of context for the doctrinal vs inductive, Suenens vs Cardijn clash in the drafting of Gaudium et Spes document of Vatican II.
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.
