Category: Vignettes from Vatican II

The Gospel of Christ constantly renews the life and culture of fallen man, it combats and removes the errors and evils resulting from the permanent allurement of sin.

The intimate partnership of married life and love has been established by the Creator and qualified by His laws and is rooted in the conjugal covenant of irrevocable personal consent.

It has been entrusted to the Church to reveal the mystery of God, Who is the ultimate goal of man, she opens up to man at the same time the meaning of his own existence, that is, the innermost truth about himself.

A man is more precious for what he is than for what he has.

Human institutions, both private and public, must labor to minister to the dignity and purpose of man.

Love itself impels the disciples of Christ to speak the saving truth to all men

God has called man and still calls him so that with his entire being he might be joined to Him in an endless sharing of a divine life beyond all corruption.

Conscience is the most secret core and sanctuary of a man. There he is alone with God, Whose voice echoes in his depths. In a wonderful manner, conscience reveals that law which is fulfilled by the love of God and neighbour.

Man is a social being, and unless he relates himself to others he can neither live nor develop his potential.

Faith throws a new light on everything, manifests God’s design for man’s total vocation, and thus directs the mind to solutions which are fully human.