The Deacon and the Doc continued our discussion of Gaudium et Spes (GS). Its predictive quality in describing the world we live in today continued to impress us.

Deacon Mike thinks that Part Two of GS really shines as the council fathers began to speak with clarity and charity about how the Church and her constant teaching is the necessary ingredient for a civilizing humanity. The Doc couldn’t stop praising what the document had to say about the essential role of the family. It’s clear from our experience that if the family is broken so will society be. Gaudium et Spes provides us with the philosophical and theological grounding to backup that empirical knowledge.