Posts on Church Documents like Encyclicals
“The council focuses its attention on the world of men, the whole human family along with the sum of those realities in the midst of which it lives” (GS 2). One such reality the Council discusses in Gaudium et Spes is that of technology. There is no doubt that technology has changed profoundly the “circumstances Read more
The Problem of Technology – As Raised by Gaudium et Spes Read More »
“All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture”. With these words Pope John Paul II begins paragraph 51 of his encyclical Centesimus Annus. It is clear, then, that the pope sees the importance of culture in all the forms and facets of human life. Paragraph 51, however, is located in the
State and Culture in the Encyclical Centesimus Annus Read More »
There is great debate in the contemporary world whether life exists after death. Influential secular ‘thinkers’ such as Stephen Hawking or Richard Dawkins assert that no such thing is possible and lead masses to a pessimistic view of their lives. In fact, it can lead one to despair because if there is nothingness after physical
The Bible and the Church on Ensoulment and the Immortality of the Soul Read More »