id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005195688 Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano) Pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world : gaudium et spes, December 7, 1965 1976 .txt text/plain 46774 2027 61 Indeed, we hold that through labor offered to God man is associated with the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, Who conferred an eminent dignity on labor when at Nazareth He worked with His own hands. Since the Church has a visible and social structure as a sign of her unity in Christ, she can and ought to be enriched by the develop- ment of human social life, not that there is any lack in the constitu- tion given her by Christ, but that she can understand it more pene- tratingly, express it better, and adjust it more successfully to our times. cache/_005195688.txt txt/_005195688.txt