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Decree on the Mission Activity of the Church : Ad Gentes

1. Divinely sent to the nations of the world to be unto them “a universal sacrament of salvation,”(1) the Church, driven by the inner necessity of her own catholicity, and obeying the mandate of her Founder (cf. Mark 16:16), strives ever to proclaim the Gospel to all men.

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Declaration on the Relation of the Church to non-christian religions : Nostra Aetate

1. In our time, when day by day mankind is being drawn closer together, and the ties between different peoples are becoming stronger, the Church examines more closely her relationship to non-Christian religions.

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Declaration on christian education : Gravissimum educationis

DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONGRAVISSIMUM EDUCATIONIS PROCLAIMED BY HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI ON OCTOBER 28, 1965 INTRODUCTION The Sacred Ecumenical Council has considered with care how extremely important education is in the life of man and how its influence ever grows in the social progress o

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Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern Word-Gaudium et Spes

1. The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the men of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these are the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the followers of Christ. Indeed, nothing genuinely human fails to raise an echo in their hearts.

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DOGMATIC CONSTITUTION ON THE CHURCH

1. Christ is the Light of nations. Because this is so, this Sacred Synod gathered together in the Holy Spirit eagerly desires, by proclaiming the Gospel to every creature,(1) to bring the light of Christ to all men, a light brightly visible on the countenance of the Church.

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What Motivates Excessive Sexual Promiscuity?

Promiscuity is, as you suggest, a culturally determined concept, but is formally defined, according to Webster, as including not only frequent but “indiscriminate” sexual behavior. Preference for frequent sexual contacts is not necessarily the same as being sexually indiscriminating.

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Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World

The Great Books of the Western World was a project by Encyclopedia Brittanica to identify the most significant literature in Western culture. You can find the list of authors and titles on Wikipedia, but they don’t have descriptions.

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