The Deacon and the Doc Podcast - Episode 08 - Prophetic Witness

The Deacon and the Doc dove right into talking about our initial impressions of Gaudium et Spes (GS). We agreed with many of our participants who called the constitution prescient in its analysis of modern society’s situation.

That situation arose due to the West’s gradual abandonment of Catholic Christianity as it acquired new technological, cultural, and political forms. Nevertheless, those same societies suffered from environmental degradation, spiritual malaise, sensual overload, and ideological extremism. All of these maladies were, in the clear-eyed analysis of GS, due to humanity’s rejection of Christ as the standard by which individual human beings and human societies evaluate themselves.