Editing Gaudium et spes (section)

=== The creation of the text of ''Gaudium et spes'' ===
{{Lang|la|Gaudium et spes}} was not drafted before the council met, but arose from the floor of the council and was one of the last to be promulgated.<ref name=":33"/> In preparation for the council, Pope John XXIII asked for suggestions concerning the substance of Vatican II.<ref name=":33" /> In a large width of responses sorted through by a commission appointed by the Pope, there resulted in 67 thematic documents that would be placed for discussion during the council.<ref name=":33" /> Four of those documents, dealing with the church in the modern world, ultimately formed the logical backbone of what would become {{Lang|la|Gaudium et spes}}.<ref name=":33" /> In what is described as a turning point of the council, the harsh disagreement over the four documents drove the attendees to invalidate all 67 thematic documents as inadequate.<ref name=":33" /> This led to Pope John asking Cardinal [[Leo Joseph Suenens|Leo Jozef Suenens]] to create a new agenda for the council in November, 1962.<ref name=":33" /> The agenda was to include an examination on the Church and its role within the modern world, as necessitated by the debate over the four documents in question.<ref name=":33" /> By December 1962, Suenens revealed his work.<ref name=":33" /> The role of the church would be split between different viewpoints: "Ad intra," internally, and "ad extra," externally.<ref name=":33" /> These ultimately resulted in {{Lang|la|[[Lumen gentium|Lumen Gentium]]}} and {{Lang|la|Gaudium et spes}}, respectively.<ref name=":33" /> Schema 17 and, toward the end of the council, Schema 12 inspired the later creation of {{Lang|la|Gaudium et spes}}.<ref name=":44"/> Schema 12, while focusing on the church's role in world social issues, underwent many changes before ultimately being rejected by the attendees over a lack of cohesion within the document.<ref name=":44"/>

Cardinal Suenens was again tasked with producing a new schema; however, Pope John XXIII died before its completion on June 3, 1963.<ref name=":33" />  Upon the election of Pope Paul VI on June 21, 1963, Pope Paul continued the creation of the document.<ref name=":33" />  When the revised Schema 12 was published in September 1963, it was met with intense scrutiny by the bishops.<ref name=":33" />  Ultimately, the schema, through multiple revisions that lasted until 1964, was transformed into Schema 13, which would become {{Lang|la|Gaudium et spes}}.<ref name=":33" /> Schema 13 not only related the role of the church to the world but also dealt with questions dealing with modern problems.<ref name=":33" />  On November 16, 1964, Schema 13 was approved to be edited after all of the Bishops' suggestions were aggregated.<ref name=":33" />  Father Pierre Haubtmann led a commission tasked with editing the schema.<ref name=":33" />  Over the period of the next year, Father Haubtmann led discussions and continued to develop the schema in line with discussion offered during the council.<ref name=":33" />  Approved by a vote of 2,307 to 75 of the [[bishop]]s assembled at the council, Schema 13 was promulgated as {{Lang|la|Gaudium et spes}} by [[Pope Paul VI]] on 7 December 1965, the day the council ended.<ref name=":022"/>