Posts Tagged ‘Vatican II’

Gaudium et Spes: Go where I cannot go, bishop tells lay people

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

The title of this talk, The Church and the Modern World, is the English title of the Vatican II document Gaudium et Spes. It was issued in December 1965. The central theme of this document is this – the Church is to be engaged with the world, it is to be its Gaudium et Spes Read more

A peaceful revolution against Roman absolutism

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Famed theologian Fr. Hans Kung has called for a “peaceful” revolution by world Catholics against the absolutism of papal power. He made the call in a video message on June 10, the first evening of a conferenceĀ of the American Catholic Council in Detroit. “I think few people realize how powerful the pope is,” Kung said, Read more