The Social Economics of Gaudium et Spes (The Constitution on the Church in the Modern World) of the Second Vatican Council

Abstract

Catholic theologians and ethicists date the modern entrance of the Church into the area of social justice and social economics by the publication of Pope Leo XIII's landmark encyclical, Rerum Novarum, 15 May, 1891. He began the letter with these words:

Citation

Skok, C.D. (1986), "The Social Economics of Gaudium et Spes (The Constitution on the Church in the Modern World) of the Second Vatican Council", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 13 No. 9, pp. 25-44. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb014023