Five Page Summaries of Papers Presented, Ordered by Session:

 

I. SEMINAR SESSIONS   Download PDF to view Session I papers RICHARD SCHENK, O.P., Officium signa temporum perscrutandi. Encounters of Faith and Culture 1 LIEVEN BOEVE, “Interpreting the Signs of the Times” Catholic Social Teaching and Postmodernity: A Matter of Adaptation or Not ... ..............8  JOHN MILBANK, The Distribution of Gifts ... .....14 ELIZABETH SALAS, “The Law of the Gift”: A Personalist Account of Gaudium et spes, 24 ... .22 LAURA BARITZ, O.P. and DR. TAMΑS KOCSIS, On Realizing the Principles of Gaudium et spes in a Post-Communist Country ... .....28 OLEG BRESKY, The Reception of Gaudium et spes in the Construction of Eastern Europe .....34  THOMAS HONG-SOON HAN, Ecological Solidarity Between Catholicism and the Asian Religions ...39 MORIS POLANCO, Gaudium et spes and the Ecological Awareness of our Time ......43  MICHAEL D. BEATY, Protestant Free Church Christians and Gaudium et spes:: A Historical and Philosophical Perspective ...49 SCOTT H. MOORE, Not the ‘Free’ Church in the Modern World? Response to Objections .... 55 DOUGLAS V. HENRY, Why We Can’t Wait — Freedom, the Protestant Free Church, and Gaudium et spes ..60  MARTIN MCKEEVER, C.SS.R., God’s Justice? Right Reason? Justice and Rationality in Catholic Social Teaching in the Light of Alasdair MacIntyre’s Conception of Traditions of Enquiry ... 66 SCOTT THOMAS, Whose Development, Which Rationality: Gaudium et spes, Catholic Social Thought, and International Development Policy after MacIntyre 72  PAUL DEMBINSKI and PIERGIORGIO GAWRONSKI, Development — Is There Hope Left ..77 SΙVERINE DENEULIN, Amartya Sen’s  Capability Approach to Development and Gaudium et spes:: On Political Participation and Structural Solidarity ....83  SEAN HEALY, S.M.A. and BRIGID REYNOLDS, S.M., Rooting the Catholic Social Thought Perspective in the National Consciousness and in the Development of Social Policy: An Irish Experience ... 89 WILLIAM RYAN, S.J., The Legacy of Gaudium et spes in Canada (1965-1990) 95   II.SEMINAR SESSIONS Download PDF to view Session II papers   PHILIPPE BORDEYNE, L’appel ΰ la justice face au dιsir d’κtre plus homme. L’apport de Louis-Joseph Lebret la redaction de Gaudium et spes .101 ROBERTO PAPINI, Jaques Maritain and the Second Vatican Council . ..107  ALBINO BARRERA, O.P., Gaudium et spes and Catholic Ethics in Post-Industrial Economics: Indirect Employers and Globalization ..111 PRAKASH SETHI and DAVID LOWRY, Creating a Just Society in an Economically Integrated Post-Nation-State World: The Role of Church in the 21st Century World: Past as Prologue for the Future ..... 116  REV. MICHAEL PLACE, Who Do You Say I Am: How Vatican II is Still Changing Catholic Health Care ..122 SHELIA HOLLINS, Forgotten People: Examining Issues of Justice and Social Inclusion with Respect to People with Intellectual Disabilities ..128  DANIEL FINN, Faith-Based Community Organizations: A Transforming Presence of the Church in the Modern World .....134 SALVADOR JUNE P. LALISAN, The Couples for Christ Movement: A Model for Authentic Social Action Grounded within the Framework of Catholic Social Doctrine ...139  MARILYN MARTONE, Women and Justice ...146 CHRISTINE FLETCHER, Trinitarian Theology, Equality, and Social Ethics: A Study of Sayers and LaCugna .149  ROBERT DEFINA and BARBARA WALL, Economic and Philosophical Reflections on Private Wealth ......155 ANDREW YUENGERT, More of What is Better? Material Goods in Economic Theory and Catholic Social Thought .157  JOHN HAUGHEY, S.J., With Human Rights “The New Humanism” is Half-Way There 163 REV. RAPHAEL GALLAGHER, From Conciliar Text to Moral Contexts. A Methodological Reflection .169  REV. DOMΘNEC MELΙ and MIGUEL GALLO, Social Mortgage of the Property in Family Businesses ..174 HENDRIK OPDEBEEK, The Phenomenon of Boredom in Labour and Consumption and the Vocation to Be a Fully Human Being. The Rediscovery of the Value of Spirituality in Contemporary Society ..179     III.SEMINAR SESSIONS Download PDF to view Session III papers KENNETH HIMES, O.F.M., The Catholic Vision of Peace after Gaudium et spes ...185 JOHN LANGAN, S.J., Gaudium et spes and Militant Radical Islam .190  J. ROBERT OUIMET, How Spirituality in Management Works:  To Reconcile Human Well-Being with Productivity and Profits . 196 REV. ROBERT SIRICO, The Economics of the Modern World ...202  PETER HENRIOT, S.J. A Church in the Modern World of Africa: The Zambian Experience ..207 JUDE NJOKU, Gaudium et spes and the Changes in Socio-Economic Thinking: Forty Years After .210 ALESSANDRO GAMBA and STEFANO ALBERTO, Justice and Justification: The New Life in Christ ...214 AMY UELMEN, Toward a Theory of Justice within Trinitarian Theology .221 JEAN-YVES CALVES, S.J., Gospel and Society.  Man as Social Being in the Image of God Who is All “Communion.”  How to Do This View in the Future .227 REIMUND BIERINGER and MARY ELSBERND, O.S.F. Interpreting the Signs of the Times in Light of the Gospel. Vision and Normativity of the Future ...............231  KATARINA SCHUTH, O.S.F. Transmission of the Catholic Social Teaching of Gaudium et spes: The Role of Seminaries in Preparing Knowledgeable Priests 236 MICHAEL SCHUCK, Parenting the Church: Mothers, Fathers, and Catholic Social Thought 242  CHARLES REID, Protection of Rights and the Maxims of the Law: From Gratian to Gaudium et spes 244 GIANNI MANZONE, For a Technology with a Human Face .....247  MATEO GARR, S.J., Gaudium et spes and the Struggle for Human Rights in Peru ...254 LUIS GARCΝA ECHEVERRΝA, Efficiency with Social Justice: The Challenge Remains ...260   IV.SEMINAR SESSIONS   Download PDF to view Session IV papers REV. ALEJANRO LLORENTE, La ιtica del don: un camino necesario de la economνa. Reflexiones a la luz de Gaudium et spes, 35 ...265 EVERALDO LOPES DE ANDRADE, La Dimensiσn Ιtico-cultural del Trabajo Humano en el Contexto del Concilio Vaticano II. La Redenciσn del Trabajo Libre y del Ocio Criativo en la Posmodernidad .. .... 271  EDMOND MALINVAUD, Duty of Democracies to Care More About Intergenerational and International Solidarities.. ......................276 WILSON MISCAMBLE C.S.C., Gaudium et spes and Catholic Politicians — Some American Case Studies .281  KEVIN AHERN, The Role of International Catholic Organisations in Promoting the Gospel in the “Community of Nations” .....287 NICOLETTA PARISI, International Governance between Participation and Legality ..293  DAVID ANDREWS C.S.C., Artists of a New Humanity, Defenders of Nature: Catholic Social Teaching on the Environment, Food and Agriculture in the Context of Globalization ...299 IGNAZIO MUSU, International Aspects of Sustainable Development: A New Challenge to the Catholic Social Thought .304  MARGARET ATKINS, Clarifying the Common Good ..309 PATRICK RIORDAN, S.J., Civil Society, Popular Political Culture and the Church ...313  GIL BAILE, Changing the Subject:: Gaudium et spes and the Mystery of the Human Person 319 GREGORY COULTER, Gaudium et spes: Atheism, Culture and Christian Faith .325  BERNARD D’SAMI, The Impact of Gaudium et spes on the Social Mission of the Church in Asia with Particular Reference to the Catholic Workers and Student Movements 330 ERNEST KΦNIG, Gaudium et spes — its Validity and its Implementation. The Contribution of the Conference of International Catholic Organisations 334  MATHIJS LAMBERIGTS, The Legacy of Gaudium et spes .338 MATHIAS NEBEL, Signs of the Times and Structures of Sin ....344