Pastoral Constitution

[Landy77]

I am taking a course on religion right now. I have been reading on catholic tradition. It seems there is a general opposition to the society in general of industrilized countries and north america in perticular. One thing I read specificly was the Pastoral Constitution. Can anyone comment?

[HEthePrimate]

I am taking a course on religion right now. I have been reading on catholic tradition. It seems there is a general opposition to the society in general of industrilized countries and north america in perticular. One thing I read specificly was the Pastoral Constitution. Can anyone comment?

Comment on what, specifically? The Gaudium et Spes covers a fair amount of ground, ya know! If you haven't already, you can read the full text of the document here, at the Vatican's website: Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern Word-Gaudium et Spes

Father Ratzinger criticized it for being "downright Pelagian," but I suspect many Mormons would be classified as "Pelagian," too, for we don't believe that Adam's transgression tainted human nature or deprived us of free will.

Many industrialized countries are more Protestant than Catholic, and the two religions have a tendency to be antagonistic. I don't think industrialism has anything to do with the matter, and the word "pastoral" in "Pastoral Constitution" has nothing to do with rural or agrarian lifestyles, if that's what you're driving at.

Just throwing a few things out there. If none of them is relevant, please state your question a little more precisely.

HEP

[Landy77]

I am sorry, I didn't realize how general my question was. I noticed the theme of instruction in my catholics tradition course is that indutrialized countries in the world should give away their wealth to the rest of the world because of human dignity that is talked about in the Pastoral Constitution.