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New "Gaudium et spes" Chair to study relationship between Christian and secular thought
Vatican News ^ | January 25, 2018 | Christopher Wells

Posted on 01/25/2018 4:50:28 PM PST by ebb tide

A new academic chair intended to promote the study of the interaction between Christian and secular thought was established on Thursday, as part of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences

By Christopher Wells

On Thursday, the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences solemnly inaugurated the Gaudium et spes” Chair, dedicated to studying “the interaction between Christian and secular thought.”

The new academic Chair was established as part of the Pontifical Institute, itself a new foundation, brought into being in September of last year with the motu proprio “Summa familiae cura.”

Letter of Pope Francis

The Inauguration of the Gaudium et spes Chair was marked by a Pontifical Letter from Pope Francis, which was published by Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, and Grand Chancellor of the Institute.

In his letter, Pope Francis expressed his appreciation for the work of the Institute and his hopes and best wishes for the new Chair. He noted that Gaudium et spes was promulgated on the final day of the Second Vatican Council, and was, he said, “able to express and give form to the profound intentions that guided the calling and unfolding of the Council.”

Commitment to Gaudium et spes

The Holy Father said he was happy that the Institute “has taken up a particular commitment to keep alive the attention to that conciliar document, and to deepen the study of it, in order to make ever more fruitful its precious legacy.”

The new Chair, the Pope said, “fits in well within the horizon of your particular academic mission toward marriage and the family.” The Church, he said, through Gaudium et spes, has been able to “express a profoundly renewed understanding of the ‘gospel of the family’” leading ultimately “to the intense synodal period that culminated in the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris laetitia.”


TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic
KEYWORDS: apostasy; francischurch; secularism
On Thursday, the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences solemnly inaugurated the “Gaudium et spes” Chair, dedicated to studying “the interaction between Christian and secular thought.”

More rotten fruit from the the Second Vatican Council via a rotten pope.

1 posted on 01/25/2018 4:50:28 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide
ebb tide wrote: More rotten fruit from the Second Vatican Council via a rotten pope. Exactly, well stated! †Dominus vobiscum†
2 posted on 01/25/2018 4:56:02 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: ebb tide

From Paglia, a raving queen who should not even be a deacon, let alone an archbishop and certainly not in charge of something like this.

This is horrible.


3 posted on 01/25/2018 5:04:35 PM PST by livius
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To: ebb tide

in my humble and unsolicited opinion,
secular thought today has very little of genuine value to offer on this subject

quite the contrary, mostly.

I would personally prefer to start with, say... this:

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Woman-He-Created-Them/dp/0819874213/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1516928650&sr=8-2&keywords=john+paul+body


4 posted on 01/25/2018 5:06:49 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: livius

That's Paglia, wearing the zucchetto, in a painting commissioned and approved by him, for his cathedral.

5 posted on 01/25/2018 5:21:07 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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To: ebb tide

Disgusting but I’m glad you posted it, because I don’t think most people understand the depravity of Paglia - and the insanity of a pope who would give him a position like this. In fact, the insanity of a pope who wouldn’t boot Paglia out of all his positions and laicize him.


6 posted on 01/25/2018 5:30:29 PM PST by livius
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