New "Gaudium et spes"
Chair to study relationship between Christian and secular thought
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| Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, Grand Chancellor of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences. |
A new academic chair intended to promote the study of the
interaction between Christian and secular thought was established on Thursday,
as part of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and
Family Sciences
By Christopher Wells
On Thursday, the John Paul II Pontifical Theological
Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences solemnly inaugurated
the “Gaudium et spes” Chair, dedicated to studying “the
interaction between Christian and secular thought.”
The new academic Chair was established as part of the
Pontifical Institute, itself a new foundation, brought into being in September
of last year with the motu proprio “Summa
familiae cura.”
Letter of Pope Francis
The Inauguration of the Gaudium et spes Chair
was marked by a Pontifical Letter from Pope Francis, which was published by
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the President of the Pontifical Academy for Life,
and Grand Chancellor of the Institute.
In his letter, Pope Francis expressed his appreciation for
the work of the Institute and his hopes and best wishes for the new Chair. He
noted that Gaudium et spes was promulgated on the final day of
the Second Vatican Council, and was, he said, “able to express and give form to
the profound intentions that guided the calling and unfolding of the Council.”
Commitment to Gaudium et spes
The Holy Father said he was happy that the Institute “has
taken up a particular commitment to keep alive the attention to that conciliar
document, and to deepen the study of it, in order to make ever more fruitful
its precious legacy.”
The new Chair, the Pope said, “fits in well within the
horizon of your particular academic mission toward marriage and the family.”
The Church, he said, through Gaudium et spes, has been able to
“express a profoundly renewed understanding of the ‘gospel of the family’”
leading ultimately “to the intense synodal period that culminated in the
Apostolic Exhortation Amoris laetitia.”
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