Today, April 27, 2020, I celebrate with my fellow Austrian citizens the institution of the Second Republic of Austria in my apartment due...

Gaudium et S pes 46–93 is titled “Some more urgent Problems”   Gaudium et Spes  46 is titled “Preface”   The first sentence of Gaudium et...

Part One of Gaudium et Spes  is titled “The Church and the Human Vocation” and consists of four chapters that run from Gaudium et Spes 12...

The Preface of Gaudium et Spes   All 92 numbers of the official Latin text [i]  of Gaudium et Spes  and of all other official...

The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes  (Paul VI 1965) is the only document of the Second Vatican...

In March 1962, the Belgian Léon-Joseph Cardinal Suenens, who enjoyed the confidence of Pope John XXIII, told the central preparatory...

The Second Vatican Council confirms in the first sentence of the Preface of the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum...

Dignitatis Humanae  1,1 ( Dignitatis humanae ) affirms, the Council “searches into the sacred tradition and doctrine of the Church – the...

The central themes that arise in the Roman Catholic Church regarding the ecumenical movement – that had originated with the Protestant...

Since 1959, John XIII insisted that the upcoming Council would work for the unity of all Christian Churches (Soetens, Claude. 1998....

The synoptic Gospels, that is Mark , Matthew and Luke , permanently give testimony of Jesus teaching his disciples to understand that he...

TPreliminary remarks Lumen Gentium  speaks of the Roman Catholic Church using predications like mystery, like people of Go’d, sacrament,...

Preliminary remarks   The Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium  starts proclaiming, “Christ is the Light of nations. Because...

Sacrosanctum Concilium consists of an introduction followed by seven chapters and an appendix. Introduction  The introduction counts four...

Who wrote the history of the Second Vatican Council and who interpreted the texts? We have to recognize the fact that Alberigo’s team of...

The Roman Catholic Church is organized as a strictly hierarchical monarchy. In 1962, Pope John XXIII assembled 2,300 bishops from all...

I follow the example of the Biblical scholars who listened to psychologists to understand emotions before discussing on Emotions from Ben...

The Scriptures inspired the lives of many a woman and men of many cultures and times. We do not know about the reactions of the assembly...

In Tractatus 2.1 Wittgenstein describes an activity of consciousness of women, men and queer as “We make to ourselves pictures of facts.”...

I am reading, studying, and meditating Christian literature in the first and second century CE. The authors of the New Testament lived in...