Gaudium et spes, luctus et angor

Mass Exodus ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 133-188
Author(s):  
Stephen Bullivant
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Gaudium Et Spes ◽  
Humanae Vitae ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Devotional Practices ◽  
The Catholic Church

In 1965, Vatican II’s final document observed that ‘Profound and rapid changes are spreading by degrees around the whole world.’ Even by the mid-1960s, this assessment was hard to contradict—at the end of the decade, it would seem wildly understated. Put simply, a lot changed in the ‘turbulent sixties’—fashion, politics, popular music, social values, sexual mores. Within the Catholic Church, it would be more turbulent still. The euphoria unleashed by the Council precipitated a period of rapid and disorienting changes. Changes to the liturgy, devotional practices, the ordering and architecture of churches, and ecumenical relations were accompanied by the ‘abolition’ of Friday abstinence in 1966 and a crisis of disappointment and dissent in the wake of Humanae Vitae.

Pope Francis and Bioethical Concerns in Amoris laetitia

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (10) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
James McTavish ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Gaudium Et Spes ◽  
Humanae Vitae ◽  
The Family ◽  
Church Teaching ◽  
Amoris Laetitia ◽  
The Catholic Church

Amoris laetitia (The Joy of Love), Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation on love in the family, provides the pontiff’s reflections following the 2014–2015 Synods of Bishops on the Family. In it, he examines the situation of families in today’s world and calls readers’ attention “to the parts dealing with their specific needs.” The Pope anchors Amoris laetitia in the continuity of Church teaching, supporting his observations with various documents from the magisterium, including Humanae vitae, Gaudium et spes, Familiaris consortio, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

scholarly journals The Catholic 1968: Poland, Social Justice, and the Global Cold War

Slavic Review ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 638-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr H. Kosicki
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Development ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Humanae Vitae ◽  
New Vision ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Catholic Church

In the 1960s, the Catholic Church underwent a revolution in the teaching and practice of its faith, known as aggiornamento. Catholics responded by pioneering new forms of agency in world affairs in the Global Sixties. This was a cross-Iron Curtain story, affecting communist and non-communist countries in Europe, as well as developing countries across the world – a story of transfers and encounters unfolding simultaneously along multiple geographical axes: “East-West,” “North-South,” and “East-South.” The narrative anchor for this story is the year 1968. This article explores the seminal role of east European Catholics in this story, focusing on Polish Catholic intellectuals as they wrote and rewrote global narratives of political economy and sexual politics. A global Catholic conversation on international development stalled as sexual politics reinforced Cold War and post-colonial divisions, with the Second and Third Worlds joining forces against First World critics of a new papal teaching on contraception, Humanae Vitae. Paradoxically, the Soviet Bloc became the prism through which the Catholic Church refracted a new vision of international development for the Third World.

The Pursuit of Martyrdom in the Catholic Church in Korea before 1866

2009 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREW FINCH
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Values ◽  
First Century ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Kinship Ties ◽  
The Catholic Church

The first century of the Catholic Church in Korea was characterised by recurrent and often severe persecutions. Consequently a cult of martyrs developed from early in the Church's history. Wider Catholic concepts relating to martyrdom and spirituality, in particular belief in a corrupting world and the significance of martyrdom in offering a means of release, set individuals on the path of martyrdom. They were then informed and encouraged by the development of the cult itself, and the solidarity and support of the Christian community. However, Korean Christians also carried with them Confucian and Buddhist concepts concerning the nature of virtue, asceticism, world-renunciation and self-sacrifice, and they subscribed to a set of social values which saw kinship ties and posthumous reputation as paramount. In the area of martyrdom these indigenous concepts and values complemented and reinforced those derived from Catholicism.

scholarly journals BERPIJAK DI BUMI – BERPIHAK KEPADA MANUSIA (Mandat dari Gaudium et Spes)

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Paul Budi Kleden
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Gaudium Et Spes ◽  
John Xxiii ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

Gaudium et Spes is a revolutionary document of Vatican II which can still inspire the Church now and in the future. This document is revolutionary in the sense that it deals with problems, issues and ideas that had never before become the agenda of any Council in the Catholic Church. Gaudium et Spes concretizes what John XXIII named aggiornamento, a process of contextualising the Christian heritage, through which the Church opens itself up to the modern world. This document is also revolutionary because it is entirely a product of the conciliar process of the Council itself. This article presents the process of drafting the document and discusses some issues that are relevant for the Church today and in the future. <b>Kata-kata kunci:</b> proses, Gereja, dunia modern, solidaritas, keadilan ekonomi, martabat manusia, perdamaian.

scholarly journals A discrição da Igreja católica em torno do planejamento familiar e a consciência dos fiéis

2018 ◽  
Vol 75 (299) ◽  
pp. 682
Author(s):  
Luiz Fernando de Lima ◽  
Mário Antônio Sanches
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Field Research ◽  
First Century ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Humanae Vitae ◽  
The Family ◽  
Pastoral Workers ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Catholic Church

Síntese: A discrição em torno do planejamento familiar e a consciência dos fiéis advinda da posição da Igreja católica em questões de planejamento familiar é o tema principal deste texto. Para tanto, parte-se de um levantamento teórico em abalizados teólogos do século XX e XXI e de uma pesquisa de campo realizada, em 2013, na Diocese de Jacarezinho (PR), entre os agentes de pastoral das comunidades eclesiais. Intenciona-se, a partir deste caminho, evidenciar que, depois de toda a agitação que envolveu a Humane Vitae e suas declarações há algumas décadas atrás, hoje, se percebe outro movimento: uma perigosa discrição sobre o assunto, a partir da qual o momento pastoral atual se apresenta um tanto quanto confuso.Palavras-chave: Planejamento Familiar. Discrição eclesial. Humanae Vitae. Pastoral.Abstract: The discretion around the family planning and conscience of the faithful of the Catholic Church arising from the position in family planning issues is the main theme of this article. It recognizes is a theoretical survey of authoritative theologians of the twentieth and twenty-first century and a field research conducted in 2013 in the diocese of Jacarezinho (PR) among pastoral workers of the ecclesial communities. It is intended from this path, to show that after all the turbulence that involved the Humane Vitaeand its statements a few decades ago, today it is noticed another movement: a dangerous discretion on the subject, from which the current pastoral moment appears somewhat confused.Keywords: Family planning. Church discretion. Humanae Vitae. Pastoral.

scholarly journals Humanae Vitae

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 141-159
Author(s):  
Robert J. Batule ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Humanae Vitae ◽  
Good For ◽  
The Catholic Church

Two years ago (2018) was the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Humanae Vitae. It was also the year Pope Paul VI was canonized a saint of the Catholic Church. The Pope who was once vilified for writing the encyclical has now become the Pope raised to the altar. We know what has become of the Pope, but what is to become of his encyclical? This article examines what was occurring at the time of the encyclical’s release and what it has been like to live with half a century of the encyclical’s rejection. The prospects are not very good for anything like a cultural conversion any time soon—maybe not for the foreseeable future. But we are encouraged now at this moment in history by what the prophet Habakkuk says in his Old Testament book. “The vision still has its time, presses on to fulfillment and will not disappoint.”

Marking Memory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hillary Kaell
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Lay People ◽  
Devotional Practices ◽  
The Catholic Church

Across rural Quebec twenty-foot devotional crosses stand tall along the waysides. A tradition inherited from France, lay people constructed crosses on or near their property, especially during the "Marian century" (c. 1850s-1950s). Today, most associated devotional practices, including group prayers, have almost disappeared. Yet approximately 3,000 crosses remain and their continued existence defies the predictions of an earlier generation of "folklore" specialists who, in the 1970s, concluded that their demise was imminent. This chapter argues that the secularization model that drove that prediction, and contemporary post-secularization models are inadequate conceptual frameworks for understanding the experience of being at the wayside cross. Drawing instead on recent work in anthropology of prayer, it traces how the crosses are central nodes in generationally shifting ‘prayerscapes’. In other words, the changing nature of the Catholic Church in Quebec has not only made people pray for different things, but has also changed the kind of prayers they say. This chapter traces the evolution of prayer by drawing on the large archive amassed over a ten-year study of the crosses in the 1970s, and on fieldwork conducted from 2012-14.

scholarly journals Encyclical Letter Humanae Vitae in the Course of Time

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Marek Petro
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Moral Theology ◽  
Moral Pluralism ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Humanae Vitae ◽  
Moral Tradition ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Marital Love ◽  
The One ◽  
The Catholic Church

The content of Humanae Vitae (1968) caused an ongoing debate all over the world. It has also stirred up factual crisis of moral theology. The crisis has caused subjectivity of morality and this has caused further crisis. The most serious feature of the crisis seems to be an effort to accept moral pluralism inside the Catholic Church. The renewal of moral theology the Second Vatican Council talked about has been left blocked. A couple of years after the Second Vatican Council, but before publishing Humanae Vitae, warning of St. Paul VI calls for continuity with moral tradition as a criterion for the autonomy of Catholic moral theology. In spite of much opposition of some bishops, theologians, and laypeople, the teaching of the encyclical letter has priceless value. The truth about marital love and value of life is in its center. It is proclaimed in an overview of the teaching of the Catholic Church from Humanae Vitae to Evangelium Vitae. In its nature, family is invited to fullness of love and, at the same time, it is the heart of civilization of love. Unfortunately, current family has found itself between the two civilizations—civilization of love on the one hand and civilization of death and uncontrolled pleasure on the other. The teaching of the encyclical Humanae Vitae is a constant guide when protecting true marital love and family in the course of time.

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