scholarly journals Os pobres como perspectiva em Medellín

2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (309) ◽  
pp. 158
Author(s):  
Paulo Sérgio Lopes Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
John Xxiii ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Pope John Xxiii

Objetiva-se neste artigo apresentar teologicamente os pobres, tendo como perspectiva a II Conferência Geral do Episcopado Latino-americano, realizada na cidade de Medellín, na Colômbia, no período de 24 de agosto a 06 de setembro de 1968. Justifica este objetivo o fato de a referida Conferência, ao buscar adaptar o Concílio Vaticano II na América Latina, ter encontrado na referida categoria o assento plausível para ser fiel à articulação entre fé e contexto histórico latino-americano. Para atingir este objetivo, tomar-se-á a esteira do Concílio Vaticano II, tendo como ponto de partida a expressão “Igreja dos Pobres”, cunhada pelo Papa João XXIII, trazendo à tona importantes posições teológicas sobre a questão dos pobres. Em seguida, decifrar-se-á textualmente a categoria “pobres”, e buscar-se-á visualizá-la como carência, espiritualidade e compromisso em todo o documento das conclusões de Medellín. Espera-se que a hermenêutica textual possibilite visualizar que a Conferência de Medellín não foi um acontecimento que já terminou, mas que continua a ser um chamado para que a Igreja de Cristo, pobre, com os pobres, tenha os pobres como sujeitos históricos, efetivando verdadeiramente uma Igreja dos Pobres.Abstract: This paper aims at presenting theologically the poor as perspective in the second General Conference of the Latin American Episcopate, held in the city of Medellín, in Colombia, in the period from 24 August to 06 September 1968. This objective justified the fact that the Conference, to get fit in the Second Vatican Council in Latin America, found in the said category workable seating to be faithful to the relationship between faith and historical context. To achieve this goal, the wake of the Second Vatican Council, having as starting point the expression “Church of the poor”, coined by Pope John XXIII, bringing up important theological positions on the issue of the poor. Then crack will be verbatim the “poor” category and will view it as grace, spirituality and commitment throughout the document the conclusions of Medellín. It is expected that the textual hermeneutics allows show that the Conference of Medellín was not an event that already expired, but continues to be a call to the Church of Christ, poor, with the poor and the poor as subjects, history effecting truly a Church of the poor.Keywords: Medellín;Poor; Church of the poor; Vatican II.

Liberation Theology: the Option for the Poor

1987 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 407-421
Author(s):  
Peter Hebblethwaite
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The People ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Church Structures

One fairly obvious difference between this paper and those you have heard so far is that liberation theology, whatever it means, is still being discussed, attacked, caricatured, and defended with great vehemence and passion. The theme does not possess the completeness and neatness that historians prefer. It sprawls and proliferates. The bibliography is immense. We have already reached the stage of the overarching survey. D. W. Ferm has provided a 150-page summary with a helpful ‘reader’ for the use of college students. Ferm’s survey includes African and Asian theologians as well as Latin Americans. I can understand his desire to include Archbishop-elect Desmond Tutu in South Africa and to provide some hints as to why President Marcos could be deposed in the Philippines. And there is indeed a body called the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians—its unfortunate acronym is EATWOT—which gives some substance to this universalizing claim. But I am going to confine myself to Latin America because it was there that the ‘option for the poor’ was first spoken about. The date was 1968. CELAM, the regional association of Latin American Bishops, met at Medellin in Colombia in August. Pope Paul VI was present, and was the first Pope to kiss the soil of Latin America. There was a feeling abroad that at the Second Vatican Council, which had ended three years before, an essentially European agenda concerned typically with ecumenism and Church structures (collegiality) had prevailed; the Council had yet to be ‘applied’ to the Latin American situation. One phrase, however, provided a stimulus and a starting-point. Gaudium etSpes, the pastoral constitution on the Church in the World of Today, begins with the ringing assertion that ‘the joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the people of this time, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these too are the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties, of the followers of Christ’.

scholarly journals Igreja dos pobres do Vaticano II a Medellín e aos dias atuais

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (288) ◽  
pp. 807
Author(s):  
Francisco De Aquino Júnior
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
September 11Th ◽  
40Th Anniversary ◽  
John Xxiii ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Latin American Theology ◽  
Pope John Xxiii ◽  
The Church

No contexto da celebração dos 50 anos do Concílio Vaticano II e dos 40 anos da Teologia da Libertação, o artigo aborda o tema da Igreja dos pobres, tal como foi proposto pelo papa João XXIII em sua mensagem ao mundo em 11 de setembro de 1962, bem como sua repercussão e seus desdobramentos no Concílio, na conferência de Medellín e na teologia latino-americana. E o faz para mostrar e reafirmar sua densidade/atualidade teológico-dogmática e sua relevância/atualidade histórica, apesar dos ajustes/desvios teológico-pastorais e para além dos modismos teológico-pastorais em voga na Igreja, particularmente na Igreja latino-americana.Abstract: In the context of the celebration of the 50 years of the Vatican II Council and of the 40th anniversary of the Theology of Liberation, the article discusses the Church of the Poor, as proposed by Pope John XXIII in his message to the world on September 11th 1962 as well as its impact and its aftermath in the Council, in the Medellin Conference and for Latin American theology. And the objective of the discussion is to show and reaffirm its theological-dogmatic density/actuality and its historical relevance/actuality, in spite of several theological-pastoral adjustments/deviations and beyond the theological-pastoral fads that are popular in the Church, and most of all in the Latin American one.

The Aggiornamento Phenomenon and the Second Vatican Council

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-105
Author(s):  
Hiermonk Ioann ( Bulyko) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
John Xxiii ◽  
The People ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Pope John Xxiii ◽  
The Church

The Second Vatican Council was a unique event in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. Initiated by Pope John XXIII, it was intended to make the Roman Catholic Church more open to the contemporary society and bring it closer to the people. The principal aim of the council was the so called aggiornamento (updating). The phenomenon of updating the ecclesiastical life consisted in the following: on the one hand, modernization of the life of the Church and closer relations with the secular world; on the other hand, preserving all the traditions upon which the ecclesiastical life was founded. Hence in the Council’s documents we find another, French word ressourcement meaning ‘return to the origins’ based on the Holy Scripture and the works of the Church Fathers. The aggiornamento phenomenon emerged during the Second Vatican Council due to the movement within the Catholic Church called nouvelle theologie (French for “new theology”). Its representatives advanced the ideas that became fundamental in the Council’s decisions. The nouvelle theologie was often associated with modernism as some of the ideas of its representatives seemed to be very similar to those of modernism. However, what made the greatest difference between the two movements was their attitude towards the tradition. For the nouvelle theologie it was very important to revive Christianity in its initial version, hence their striving for returning to the sources, for the oecumenical movement, for better relations with non-Catholics and for liturgical renewal. All these ideas can be traced in the documents of the Second Vatican Council, and all this is characterized by the word aggiornamento.

Prophetic Martyrdom in Modern Latin America

2020 ◽  
pp. 236-255
Author(s):  
Edward T. Brett
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Religious Sisters ◽  
Church Workers ◽  
Modern Latin America ◽  
The Church

Following the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), over a thousand priests and religious sisters and brothers were exiled, imprisoned, tortured, or murdered in Latin America by authoritarian governments. A much larger number of lay Church workers were also incarcerated, brutalized, or killed. Most suffered or died because, following the ideals of Vatican II and the Second Latin American Bishops Conference at Medellín, Colombia (1968), they committed themselves to the amelioration of the marginalized in their countries, even though they were fully aware that to do so placed their lives in great peril. This chapter treats a select number—mostly priests and nuns—who were killed because of their prophetic devotion to the poor. It is limited to the nations of Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Central America. It also touches on the bitter divisions that resulted in the Church as a consequence of this new religious activism. Finally, it demonstrates why the deaths of so many religious-based social justice activists forced the institutional Catholic Church to reexamine its outdated criteria for martyrdom.

scholarly journals INTRODUCTION

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
John Xxiii ◽  
Charles De Gaulle ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Pope John Xxiii ◽  
The Church

Charles de Gaulle famously called the Second Vatican Council the most important event in modern history. Many commentators at the time saw the Council as nothing short of revolutionary, and the later judgements of historians have upheld this view. The astonishing enterprise of a man who became, quite unexpectedly, Pope John XXIII in 1958, this purposeful aggiornamento of the Roman Catholic Church was almost at once a leviathan of papers, committees, commissions, and meetings. Scholars have been left to confront no less than twelve volumes of ‘ante-preparatory’ papers, seven volumes of preparatory papers, and thirty-two volumes of documents generated by the Council itself. A lasting impression of the impressiveness of the affair is often conveyed by photographs of the 2,200-odd bishops of the Church, drawn from around the world, sitting in the basilica of St Peter, a vast, orchestrated theatre of ecclesiastical intent. For this was the council to bring the Church into a new relationship with the modern world, one that was more creative and less defiant; a council to reconsider much – if not quite all – of the theological, liturgical, and ethical infrastructure in which Catholicism lived and breathed and had its being.

scholarly journals O laicato na Conferência Episcopal Latino-Americana de Medellín (1968)

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (289) ◽  
pp. 150-180
Author(s):  
Sávio Carlos Desan Scopinho
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
Doctrinal Development ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Church Structure ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
America Latina ◽  
The Catholic Church

Este artigo estuda a interpretação do Magistério Eclesiástico da Igreja Católica sobre o laicato na Segunda Conferência Episcopal Latino-Americana, realizada em Medellín (Colômbia), no ano de 1968. Nessa Conferência ocorreu uma tentativa de sistematizar e definir o papel do laicato na Igreja e na sociedade, retomando as intuições do Concílio Vaticano II (1962-1965) e a visão do Magistério Eclesiástico latino-americano. A proposta é, portanto, oferecer uma visão sincrônica e diacrônica da temática, com foco no documento conclusivo da Conferência de Medellín, no que diz respeito à questão do laicato, considerando ainda as implicações históricas posteriores à realização da Conferência, principalmente na XIV Assembleia do CELAM, realizada em Sucre, na Bolívia, no ano de 1972. Assim, o objetivo é demonstrar, numa perspectiva crítica e sistemática, que o leigo na concepção do Magistério Eclesiástico latino-americano teve uma evolução histórica e doutrinal, sempre com muitos desafios e fragilidades, mas, ao mesmo tempo, com esperanças e possibilidades. A Igreja Católica na América Latina, desde a realização do Concílio Vaticano II, vivência um contexto histórico e doutrinal de ambiguidades e contradições, sem perder o ideal cristão, que se pauta numa sociedade justa, solidária e comprometida com a opção pelos pobres. O leigo é chamado a ter consciência dessa realidade e a assumir sua responsabilidade diante dos desafios presentes na própria estrutura da Igreja, assim como na relação com a sociedade. Nesse contexto eclesial e social, não se pode negligenciar a importância da Conferência de Medellín, devido à sua contribuição doutrinal e pastoral sobre o laicato, que será posteriormente retomada nos documentos conclusivos das Conferências Episcopais latino-americanas de Puebla (1979), Santo Domingo (1992) e Aparecida (2007). Abstract: This article studies the understanding of the Ecclesiastical Magisterium of the Catholic Church about the laity in the second Latin American Episcopal Conference held in Medellin, Colombia, in 1968. At that conference there was an attempt to systematize and define the role of the laity inside the Church and society, resuming the intuitions of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) and the view of the Latin American Ecclesiastical Magisterium. So, the proposal is to offer a diachronic and synchronic view about the theme, having the focus on the conclusive document of the Medellin Conference referring the laity issue. It’s also necessary to take in account the Conference subsequent historical entailments, especially at the XIV CELAM Assembly, held in Sucre, Bolivia, in 1972. Therefore, the aimis to demonstrate, in a critical and systematic perspective, that the layman has had a historical and doctrinal development in the Latin American Ecclesiastical Magisterium view, always with many challenges and fragilities, but also with hopes and possibilities at the same time. The Catholic Church in Latin America has experienced a historical and doctrinal context of ambiguities and contradictions since the Second Vatican Council, without losing the Christian ideal that is based on a fair, supportive and committed society with the option for the poor. The laity is called to have consciousness about that reality and to accept his responsibility before the challenges present in the own Church structure and in the relationship with society as well. In this ecclesial and social context, we must not neglect the importance of the Medellin Conference, since it has a doctrinal and pastoral contribution to the laity, which will be resumed later in the conclusive documents of the Episcopal Latin American Conferences in Puebla (1979), Santo Domingo (1992) and Aparecida (2007).Keyword: Latin American Bishops, Conference of Medellín, Laity

scholarly journals La renovación pedagógica y el Concilio Vaticano II: el caso de La Salle y las Vedrunas en el País Vasco

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 238
Author(s):  
Esther Berdote Alonso ◽  
Pauli Davila Balsera ◽  
Luis Maria Naya Garmendia
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Religious Congregations ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Pais Vasco

The Second Vatican Council influenced on the apostolate of most of the religious orders and congregations devoted to education. The need to adequate themselves to the new educational statements that were promoted through the Council Documents will bring about significant changes in their pedagogical premises. The aim of this article is to show how this process was managed by two well-known religious congregations in the Basque Country: De La Salle Brothers and the Vedruna Sisters. To analyse this case, we have used primary sources from the archives of both congregations where the process of accommodation to Vatican II is brought to light. In conclusion, it can be highlighted that an internal renovation happened according to the religious premises, and some pedagogical renewal aspects took place concerning the importance of the Basque language and culture, teacher training, and the option for the poor.

Call and Response

2020 ◽  
pp. 191-214
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Michael Boyle, OP
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Musical Theatre ◽  
Liturgical Music ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Call And Response ◽  
Multiple Languages

“Call and Response: American Dominican Artists and Vatican II” describes the work of fifteen American Dominican artists as each exemplifies or anticipates the priorities of the Second Vatican Council. Each artist personifies the response to a specific call: to reanimate the original scriptural and historical roots of the religious congregation, to provide leadership in liturgical renewal, to feed the spiritual hungers of the poor, to spread the gospel of justice through contemporary means of social communication. As Dominicans, these artists fulfill their vocation to preach the gospel in the multiple languages of genres ranging from design of sacred space and liturgical music to folk art, musical theatre, videography, and film. Most of the men and women chosen here to demonstrate this theme are active members of the Dominican Institute for the Arts, a national support group whose mission is to promote preaching through the arts.

MEDELLÍN E A LITURGIA FUNDAMENTOS PARA TRADUZIR EM BELEZA O ESPAÇO CELEBRATIVO

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (23) ◽  
pp. 089
Author(s):  
Ney De Souza ◽  
Lucy Terezinha Mariotti
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Great Relevance ◽  
Latin American Theology ◽  
The Church

Este artigo objetiva entrelaçar duas temáticas de enorme relevância para a teologia latino-americana: Medellín e a liturgia. O texto apresenta o capítulo 9 da II Conferência do Episcopado Latino-americano, tendo presente as grandes linhas do mesmo documento. Através da Liturgia se busca encontrar os fundamentos para que a “casa da Igreja” seja ícone da Beleza. Para tanto, se quer reler de forma sinótica o Concílio Vaticano II e a II Conferência no que diz respeito à liturgia e, de consequência, para a arte litúrgica.Palavras-chaves: Medellín; liturgia; arte; beleza; Vaticano IIAbstractThis article aims to interweave two themes of great relevance to Latin American theology: Medellín and the liturgy. The text presents chapter 9 of the II Conference of Latin American Bishops, bearing in mind the broad lines of the same document. Through the Liturgy one seeks to find the foundations for the "house of the Church" to be the icon of Beauty. To that end, the synoptic re-reading of the Second Vatican Council and the Second Conference regarding the liturgy and, consequently, liturgical art.Keywords: Medellin; liturgy; art; beauty; Vatican II

scholarly journals “As by a New Pentecost”: Embodied Prayer in Catholic Charismatic Renewal Following Vatican II

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 591
Author(s):  
Michelle Blohm
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
John Xxiii ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Duquesne University ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Charismatic Renewal ◽  
Catholic Charismatic Renewal

On 25 December 1961, John XXIII convoked the Second Vatican Council with his apostolic constitution Humanae salutis, praying that God would show again the wonders of the newborn Church in Jerusalem “as by a new Pentecost”. Not six years later, in 1967, a group of students at Duquesne University in the United States prayed while on retreat for an infusion of the Holy Spirit that they might also experience the power of Pentecost. They received what they reported to be the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and out of the spiritual experiences of that retreat arose what would become an international movement known as the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. This movement, influenced by Pentecostalism, would develop its own embodied praxis of prayer that seeks a renewed encounter with the power of the Holy Spirit made manifest at Pentecost. This article analyzes the embodied prayer language of the Renewal by drawing from Louis-Marie Chauvet’s distinction between language as mediation (or, symbol) and language as tool (or, sign). It will use Chauvet’s distinction as a hermeneutic to flesh out the relationship between post-Vatican II charismatic prayer practices and their intended purpose of participating in the encounter of Pentecost.

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