Catholic Social Teaching Beyond Partisanship: Andrew Petiprin on Gaudium et Spes and Political Loyalty

Son Rise Morning Show · Nov 6, 2026 · 7m

Does Catholic Social Teaching fit into modern partisan political categories, or does it challenge every secular system? On The Son Rise Morning Show, host Matt Swaim welcomes back Andrew Petiprin from the Spe Salvi Institute, author of The Faith Unboxed. Petiprin reflects on a recent General Audience address examining the Second Vatican Council document Gaudium et Spes (the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World). They discuss why the Church refuses to compartmentalize faith to the private sphere, why political efforts to co-opt religious language often reduce the Gospel to…