A member of our Dominican community in Macau, St Dominic’s Priory, has just published a new book on Vatican II. The publication came off the press in the first week of December, 2013 just a few days after the Year of Faith (2012-2013) and the commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of the inauguration of the Second Vatican Council (1962-2012) was closed. The publisher of the book is the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House in Manila.
The book is entitled “Vatican II at Fifty Moral and Social Teachingsâ€. It is a collection of essays written through the fifty years after the opening of the last Ecumenical Council. Most of them were penned in Manila, except three that were written in Macau, including the longest entry on the Pastoral Constitution of Vatican II Gaudium et Spes.
The author of Vatican II at Fifty is Fr. Fausto Gomez, OP who is at present an ordinary professor at the Faculty of Christian Studies of the University of Saint Joseph, Macau, and at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Santo Tomas, Manila. The book is also the author’s modest and grateful contribution for the celebration of his Golden Jubilee as a priest (1962-2012).