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2022:
60 years ago, the Second Vatican Council began: Important
quotations from the conciliar documents Gaudium et spes: 1. Man's dignity
demands that he act according to a knowing and free choice that is personally
motivated and prompted from within, not under blind internal impulse nor by
mere external pressure. (GS17) 2. God … forbids us
to make judgments about the internal guilt of anyone. (GS28) 3. For by the very
circumstance of their having been created, all
things are endowed with their own stability, truth, goodness, proper laws and
order. Man must respect these as he isolates them by the appropriate methods
of the individual sciences or arts. 4. Christ is now at
work in the hearts of men through the energy of His Holy Spirit, arousing not
only a desire for the age to come, but by that very fact animating, purifying and strengthening those noble longings too by
which the human family makes its life more human and strives to render the
whole earth submissive to this goal. (GS38) 5. The Gospel
announces and proclaims the freedom of the sons of God, and
repudiates all the bondage …; it has a sacred reverence for the dignity of
conscience and its freedom of choice. (GS41) 6. It does not
escape the Church how great a distance lies between the message she offers
and the human failings of those to whom the Gospel is entrusted. (GS43) 7. The Church
requires the special help of those who live in the world, are versed in
different institutions and specialties, and grasp their innermost
significance in the eyes of both believers and unbelievers. (GS44) 8. Indeed, the
Church admits that she has greatly profited and still profits from the
antagonism of those who oppose or who persecute her. (GS44) 9. Throughout the
whole world there is a mounting increase in the sense of autonomy as well as
of responsibility. This is of paramount importance for the spiritual and
moral maturity of the human race. (GS55) 10.
There are "two orders of knowledge" which
are distinct, namely faith and reason. (GS59) 11.
In pastoral care, sufficient use must be made not
only of theological principles, but also of the findings of the secular
sciences, especially of psychology and sociology, so that the faithful may be
brought to a more adequate and mature life of faith. (GS62) Nostra Aetate: Capter 5: We cannot truly call on God, the Father of all, if we refuse to treat
in a brotherly way any man, created as he is in the image of God. No foundation therefore remains for any theory or practice that leads
to discrimination between man and man or people and people, so far as their
human dignity and the rights flowing from it are concerned. The Church reproves, as foreign to the mind of Christ, any
discrimination against men or harassment of them because of their race,
color, condition of life, or religion. Further
citations from “Gaudium et Spes” >>>
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