Dec 2024
A Catholic Approach to Relationships
Dr. Greg Bottaro
Franciscan University Presents
Franciscan University Presents
Vatican II’s Decrees on the Church’s Relationship to Non-Christian Religions and Missionary Activity
Dr. Schreck explores the Council’s decrees on the Church’s relationship to non-Christian religions (Nostra Aetate) and on the Church’s missionary activity (Ad gentes divinitus). He talks about how the Catholic Church respects all that is true and holy in non-Christian religions and condemns persecution while also following Jesus’ command to make disciples and evangelize. He also address common misconceptions about these teachings.
Dr. Schreck talks about how the restoration of unity among Christians, or ecumenism, was a priority for Pope St. John XXIII in calling the Second Vatican Council. As…...
Dr. Schreck presents the teaching of the Second Vatican Council on the means of social communication, or the media. He talks about the moral principles of the media's…...
Dr. Schreck highlights the second part of Vatican II's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, or Gaudium et Spes, and discusses the Church's teaching on…...
