scholarly journals Catechesis and education as a function of building the Church according to Fr. Franciszek Blachnicki (On the centenary of the birth of the great educator)

2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-347
Author(s):  
Kazimierz Misiaszek

For Fr. Franciszek Blachnicki, the catechesis was in close relationship with the Church. The most appropriate place for the catechesis as the fundamental formation of Christians (adults, youth and children) is in the Church which is both the subject, goal and object of catechesis. Fr. Franciszek Blachnicki drew the concepts of the Church from studies by German-speaking authors, and above all from documents of the Second Vatican Council. For him, the Church was an intermediary of salvation, a universal sacrament of salvation, a mother, a temple of God, and most of all, a union of God's people, a community in Christ, a community of faith, hope and love. The task of catechesis is, in the first place, the introduction and experience of the Church. The nature of catechesis stems from the concept of the Church. Therefore, if the Church is a community, the aim of catechesis is to introduce it to the faithful so that they may not only participate in it, but above all create it. It is also important that catechesis  serves the process of Christian initiation, discovering the Church as a place of fulfilling the mystery of life, salvation and healing. Therefore, Fr. Blachnicki put a strong emphasis on the relationship between the liturgy and catechesis, because the most complete process of initiation takes place in the liturgy. Another task of catechesis is its function of awakening and developing faith. For faith is the foundation for the Church and the primary goal for catechesis. It is to be both personalistic and social in nature. Father Blachnicki claimed that cathechesis educated faith was not an individual faith but the faith of the Church. Many Christians, even including those most zealous, live their Christian lives alongside the life of the Church, but not in the Church. In the meantime, every Christian is the Church, because the Church is the whole Christ, the head and members, and we are its members. For that reason, the life of the Church grows in so far as the life of faith of each member grows.

2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 43-58
Author(s):  
Jan Dyduch

Synod of the Archdiocese of Lvov, inaugurated 16th January 1995, concluded 21st January 1997, became the brilliant event in the Archdiocese’s dramatic history of the last decades. The Synod assumed the renewal of the Church of Lvov and Luck on a basis of the teaching of the Second Vatican Council and the provisions of Canon Law. The renewal of the Church life requires the renewal of priestly ministry. The Synod of Lvov turns priests’ attention to their participation in the triple mission of the Church. They take part in the teaching mission when they preach the Gospel, teach catechism and evangelize by means of mass media. They fulfil their mission of sanctification when they administer sacraments and take care ofreligious practices and piety of the faithful. While guiding God’s people and performing manifold cure of souls, they carry out their pastoral mission.


1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-80
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Ślipko

The encychcal Fides et ratio proclaimed by John Paul II on 14 September 1998 is a continuation of doctrinal statements by the Magisterium of the Church on a matter that has been an object of its concern from its very beginnings. This is the problem posed by the relationship between philosophy and faith. The solutions put forward by Vatican Council I (1869-1870) in connection with this problem provoked a response in Catholic philosophical and theological circles. One of the most important events in this field in Polish terms was the publication of Father Marian Ignacy Morawski's S J considerable work Filozofia i jej zadanie (1876). This work is the subject of discussion in the article below.


Author(s):  
Mark D. Chapman

This chapter begins with an assessment of Newman as one of the most important influences behind the Second Vatican Council, before moving on to discuss his contributions to ecumenism, or ‘reunion’ as it was usually called, in his own time. After showing how he remained opposed to what he regarded as the system of ‘papalism’ in his Anglican years, even as late as 1841, the chapter moves on to analyse his contribution to the debates of the 1860s that had been sparked by Edward Bouverie Pusey’s response to Henry Manning’s attacks on the Anglican Church of his baptism. Newman in turn responded to Pusey’s Eirenicon which led to a lengthy correspondence and two further volumes from Pusey. The subject-matter, which focused on the doctrines of Mary as well as papal infallibility, revealed important differences between the two former Tractarians. Where Pusey regarded the teachings of the Church as settled and fixed in the written traditions grounded in the early Church, Newman held that Christian life and practice were equally important and were open to change and development. Although the declaration of infallibility scuppered ecumenism for many decades, the debates between Pusey and Newman reveal an openness and sympathy for one another’s opinion that paved the way for a future after Vatican II in which mutual respect would flourish.


Diacovensia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 295.-311.
Author(s):  
Davor Vuković

The aim of this paper is to reflect on the relationship between the bishop and presbyters in view of the ecclesiology of communion, i.e. the ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council. The author gives an insight into the essence of the offices of bishop and presbyter, and into the question of their mutual relationship in the perspective of the ecclesiology of communion. The bishop and presbyters are not isolated in the church community, nor are they for their own purpose, but can be understood properly only in view of the communion of the whole people of God, and in the perspective of service which represents an important dimension of ecclesiastical office and authority. In this regard, the offices of bishop and presbyter, as well as their relationship, must first be characterized by co-operation, co-responsibility, mutual respect, and acknowledgment, all in the atmosphere of essential Christian communion and service in love. The author further points to two ‘holy’ concerns: the concern of the bishop for the presbyters, and the concern of the presbyters, especially parish priests for the entrusted parish community. The last part of the paper seeks to raise awareness about the importance of justice within the church community, especially in relationships between bishops and presbyters.


Diacovensia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 117.-131.
Author(s):  
Ivica Žižić

Starting from the change and development in the understanding of the presbyterate and the episcopate at the Second Vatican Council, the author introduces the liturgical understanding of ministerial priesthood based on a comparative analysis of the ceremonial rite for the ordination of priests. The ministry of presbyters and bishops must always be understood from their ministerial, that is, their communal relationship with one another as well as with God’s people. The author develops the given topic in three units: the discovery of the liturgical foundation of ministerial priesthood; the bishop and priest as ecclesial subjects in the light of the ordination of bishops and priests; according to the liturgical theology of communion: some indications for lex vivendi. Through the contextual and comparative analysis of ordination and with a special emphasis on the original euchological context, the author concludes the reflection by reading the distinctiveness of the correlation of priestly and bishop’s ministry, whose identity and communion is given and formed by the worship of the Church.


2021 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-370
Author(s):  
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht

Over the last several decades, a group of German-speaking theologians has proposed an argument against the possibility of the ordination of women as deacons. They argue both that the unity of the sacrament of order requires that anyone ordained to the diaconate must be able to be ordained to the presbyterate and the episcopate and that the gendered constitution of humanity prevents women from imaging Christ as head of the church. This paper argues that this understanding of the sacrament and who properly receives it leads to a misinterpretation of the ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council and a reinstatement of a medieval aporia that Lumen Gentium sought to overcome. Therefore, this argument should not be allowed to affect the Church’s deliberations on the question of whether women can be ordained as deacons.


Sympozjum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol XXIV (2 (39)) ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Adam Pastorczyk

The universalist ideology: the submission of the local Church to the universal Church? Although more than half a century has passed since the adoption of the dogmatic constitution on the Church at the Second Vatican Council, a discussion continues in the Catholic Church and in ecumenical discussions about the correct interpretation of the conciliar expression „Ecclesia in et ex Ecclesiis”. The subject of this article, therefore, is an analysis of the conciliar and post-conciliar teaching of the Catholic Church and the ongoing theological discussion on the mutual relationship of the universal Church and the local Church.


2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Paul von Arx

Contemporary Roman Catholics have realized in the last thirty-five years that when an ecumenical council has concluded, it is far from over. The interpretation of the decrees of the Second Vatican Council has become today as critical and controverted as the formulation of the decrees was during the Council itself. The present controversies centre on ecclesiology—the nature of the Church—and questions at issue concern continuity and innovation. Did Vatican II, and especially the Decree on the Church in the Modern World, reform the structure and the governance of the Church toward a greater degree of consultation, subsidiarity, decentralization—‘collegiality’, to use the expression of the Council itself? Or was the vision of the Council for the Church in basic continuity with the centralized, papal-monarchial Church of the First Vatican Council? Around these questions centres most of the contention that engages the Church today: debates having to do with the rôle of bishops’ conferences, the operation of the Roman curia, the relationship of the magisterium or teaching authority to theologians.


2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Agostinho Nogueira Baptista

RESUMO: A Teologia da Libertação – TdL nasceu num contexto de opressão, buscando ser voz profética e produzindo ação transformadora, como resposta à indignação ética diante da opressão de milhões de latino-americanos. A TdL, a partir da renovação presente na Ação Católica Especializada e seus militantes (1950-1960), alimentada pelo Concílio Vaticano II (1962-1965) e a corajosa mudança iniciada por Medellín (1968), enfrentou o desafio de ser uma teologia “fonte”, recuperando a memória dos pais da Igreja, colhendo os frutos da renovação conduzida pela Nouvelle Théologie (1935-1960), e deixando de ser uma teologia “reflexo” (VAZ). Ganhou o mundo, com os novos sujeitos e os desafios da diversidade. E o espírito que esteve sempre presente na TdL foi e continua a ser de uma teologia que luta contra toda forma de opressão, de colonialismo, inclusive da própria teologia, vigilante sobre a libertação dela própria, como alertava Juan Luis Segundo (1978). Refletida já há algumas décadas, está cada vez mais em pauta a teoria decolonial. O que ela significa, qual sua genealogia e suas ideias? E que visão crítica ela traz para a reflexão teológica? Emergem também hoje as Teologias pós-coloniais. Que críticas elas fazem à TdL? Este artigo, a partir de pesquisa bibliográfica, objetiva refletir sobre o pensamento decolonial, sobre esse pensamento e a TdL, as críticas da Teologia Pós-colonial à TdL, as reações, implicações e perspectivas teológicas dessas concepções para a teologia latino-americana.ABSTRACT: Liberation Theology – LT was born in a context of oppression, with the goal of being a prophetic voice and producing transformative actions, as a response to the ethical indignation caused by the oppression of millions of Latin Americans. The LT, from the renovation present in the Specialized Catholic Action and its members (1950-1960), fed by the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) and the brave change initiated by Medellín (1968), faced the challenge of being a “source” theology, recovering the memory of the fathers of the Church, reaping the fruits of the renewal brought on by the Nouvelle Théologie (1935-1960), and ceasing to be a theology of “reflection” (VAZ). It gained the world, with new subjects and the challenges of diversity. And the spirit that has always been present in the LT was and always will be one of a theology that fights against all forms of oppression, of colonialism, including the one from theology itself, always watching its own liberation, as was warned by Juan Luis Segundo (1978). Having been thought of for a few decades already, the decolonial theory is currently more studied than ever. In this regard, the following questions arise: What does it mean? What their genealogies and ideas are about? What sort of criticism does it pose to theological reflection? Currently Postcolonial Theologies emerge. What criticism do they pose to Liberation Theology? From bibliographic research, this article aims to reflect on the decolonial thought, on the relationship between that thought and liberation theology, on the criticism of Postcolonial Theology to liberation theology, as well as the reactions, implications and theological perspectives of these concepts to the Latin American theology.


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