Gaudium et Spes

The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s general audience address given Oct. 7 in St. Peter’s Square.

“To encounter God, the human being must not abandon his earthly occupations, but can live his vocation fully, carrying out his daily work well and sanctifying it.”

The Documents of the Second Vatican Council. IV. Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et spes (GS, 23-32). 3. The human community 

When the body is reduced to being “an object” that can be “disposed of arbitrarily,” that is always a denial of the dignity of the person,” the pope said.

The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s general audience address given Sept. 9 in St. Peter’s Square.

The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s general audience address given Sept. 2 in St. Peter’s Square.

Pope Leo XIV’s widely anticipated encyclical on artificial intelligence is here, and it offers a clear path forward to one of the most pressing challenges of our age.

In many ways, “Gaudium et Spes,” or the “Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World,” is the culmination of what the Second Vatican Council hoped to accomplish, the …

The world must resist the allure of modern weapons which threaten to give conflicts a ferocity surpassing that of previous wars, Pope Leo XIV said.