December 2, 2022
Understanding Priority Challenges in Protecting Human Dignity at Intergovernmental Levels Contribution to the 5th International Assembly of the Forum of Catholic-Inspired NGOs on “Mission and responsibilities in a more just and fraternal world.”
December 2, 2022
The Council Fathers in paragraph 89 of Gaudium et spes (hereafter GS), the Pastoral Constitution of the Second Vatican Council on the Church in the modern world:
“Since, in virtue of her mission received from God, the Church preaches the Gospel to all men and dispenses the treasures of grace, she contributes to the ensuring of peace everywhere on earth and to the placing of the fraternal exchange between men on solid ground by imparting knowledge of the divine and natural law. Therefore, to encourage and stimulate cooperation among men, the Church must be clearly present in the midst of the community of nations both through her official channels and through the full and sincere collaboration of all Christians—a collaboration motivated solely by the desire to be of service to all.