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**“It's a shift from a Gaudium et Spes conference to a Lumen Gentium conference,” a veteran member of the staff explained, using insider jargon to express certain large-scale changes also occurring elsewhere in the Church. Gaudium et Spes was Vatican II's pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world; Lumen Gentium was its dogmatic constitution on the Church. Thus the formula signifies a move away from the priorities of the bishops' conference in the Bernardin years, when the hierarchy was free with its advice on social and political issues, to a serious engagement with the many problems from within that now face the Church.**
Very telling couple of sentences.