scholarly journals Words to Encourage Evangelization: A Comparison of Lexical Frequencies in the Writings of Pope Francis and Fr. Tomás Morales, SJ

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1 (19)) ◽  
pp. 29-46
Author(s):  
María Á. Martín-del Pozo
Keyword(s):  
Software Package ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Linguistic Style ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Vatican Council

Studying language through naturally-occurring data is easily feasible nowadays thanks to the use of concordancers. Using the software package AntConc by Laurence Anthony, the author approaches the linguistic style of Pope Francis in four of his apostolic exhortations. His lexical frequencies are compared to those of Venerable Fr. Tomás Morales, a Spanish Jesuit (1908–1994) who is considered a prophet of our time for anticipating the teachings of the Second Vatican Council twenty years beforehand. The two have several aspects in common, mainly in making laypeople aware of the universal call to sanctity and the missionary responsibility acquired in baptism. The results of the comparison show a similarity in the lexical choices. The article’s conclusions and implications are considered in relation to the word in education and in evangelization.

Exploring the Possible Contributions of the African Palaver towards a Participatory Synodal Church

Exchange ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 209-237
Author(s):  
Stan Chu Ilo
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Consensus Building ◽  
Traditional Society ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Church

Abstract This essay argues for a participatory synodal Church and the possible contributions of the African palaver as a model for participatory dialogue in the Roman Catholic Church. The African palaver is the art of conversation, dialogue, and consensus-building in traditional society that can be appropriated in the current search for a more inclusive and expansive participatory dialogue at all levels of the life of the Church. I will develop this essay first by briefly exploring some theological developments on synodality between the Second Vatican Council and Pope Francis and some of the contributions of the reforms of Pope Francis to synodality in the Church. Secondly, I will identify how the African palaver functions through examples taken from two African ethnic groups. I will proceed to show how the African palaver could enter into dialogue with other new approaches to participatory dialogue for a synodal Church.

scholarly journals “Nada será como antes”. A controvérsia eclesiástica sobre o Sínodo dos Bispos da Amazônia (2017-2019)

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (316) ◽  
pp. 282
Author(s):  
Carlos Eduardo Sell
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
The Self ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Ecological Concern ◽  
Political Disputes ◽  
The Catholic Church

O artigo analisa as controvérsias entre elites eclesiásticas católicas ao longo do processo de preparação do Sínodo Pan-Amazônico entre 2017 e 2019. Na primeira parte são identificados os atores e posicionamentos que emergiram nas disputas políticas em torno do Sínodo, buscando-se mostrar como elas estão implicadas em lutas pela auto-compreensão da Igreja católica enquanto organismo político, além de colocar em discussão estratégias distintas de inserção do catolicismo no mundo moderno. Na segunda parte, a partir da análise do documento que foi o epicentro da disputa (Instrumentum Laboris), argumenta-se que, na sua dimensão intra-eclesial, ele colocou em debate o processo de aprofundamento das reformas democratizantes iniciado com o Concílio Vaticano II e intensificado sob o governo do papa Francisco. Já na sua dimensão extra-eclesial (Igreja/mundo), o texto indica deslocamentos na compreensão e na estratégia de posicionamento da Igreja católica frente ao plano global e sinaliza para um processo que, mediado pela problemática ecológica, incorpora elementos da agenda pós-colonial. Abstract: The article analyzes the controversies among Catholic ecclesiastical elites during the process of preparation of the Pan-Amazon Synod between 2017 and 2019. In the first part we identify the actors and positions that emerged in the political disputes about the Synod, seeking to show how they are implicated in struggles for the self-understanding of the catholic church as a political organism, besides discussing different strategies of insertion of catholicism in the modern world. In the second part, from the analysis of the document that was the epicenter of the dispute (Instrumentum Laboris), it is argued that, in its intra-ecclesial dimension, it put into debate the process of deepening democratizing reforms that began with the Second Vatican Council. and intensified under the rule of Pope Francis. Already in its extra--ecclesial dimension, the text indicates shifts in the understanding and strategy of positioning of the Catholic church in relation to the global plan and points to a process that, mediated by ecological concern, incorporates elements of the postcolonial agenda.Keywords: Catholic church; Pope Francis; Synod; Amazon; Ecology.

scholarly journals Mistério da Encarnação no Magistério do Papa Francisco: fundamento da missão da Igreja

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
José De Souza Paim ◽  
Pedro Iwashita
Keyword(s):  
Central Nucleus ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Dei Verbum ◽  
God's Love ◽  
The World ◽  
Theological Study ◽  
The Church

Resumo: Este é um estudo teológico sobre o mistério da Encarnação do Verbono pensamento do Papa Francisco como fundamento sobre o qual ele se apoiapara propor, a partir da Evangelli Gaudium, uma renovação eclesial inadiável1,uma Igreja em permanente estado de missão2, a partir do Evangelho, núcleocentral do anúncio, para a manifestação da beleza do amor de Deus, reveladoem Jesus Cristo morto e ressuscitado3. Para o desenvolvimento desta pesquisaserá feita a análise de alguns números da Constituição Dogmática Dei Verbumcom o fim de melhor explicitar a revelação divina e a encarnação como ápiceda revelação. O resultado desta pesquisa é ajudar na percepção que o Papatem do Concílio Vaticano II sobre a Igreja e sua dimensão pastoral no mundo ecomo ele, nos passos do Concílio, propor uma renovação eclesial.Palavras-chave: Revelação. Papa Francisco. Evangelii gaudium.Abstract: This is a theological study on the mystery of the Incarnation of the Wordin the thought of Pope Francis as the grounds on which he relies to propose,from Evangelii Gaudium, an unchanging ecclesial renewal (EG 27), a Church in permanent state of mission (EG 20), from the Gospel, the central nucleus ofthe announcement, for the manifestation of the beauty of God’s love, as well asrevealed in Jesus Christ died and resurrected (EG 36). For the development ofthis research some numbers of the Dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum will beanalyzed in order to better explain divine revelation and incarnation as the apexof the revelation. The result of this research is to help understand the Pope’s per-ception of the Second Vatican Council on the Church and its pastoral dimensionin the world and how he proposes an ecclesial renewal in the steps of the Council.Keywords: Revelation. Pope Francis. Evangelii gaudium.

Magisterium, Theologians, and the Need for Dialogue

Horizons ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-112
Author(s):  
Todd A. Salzman ◽  
Michael G. Lawler
Keyword(s):  
Important Change ◽  
Theological Ethics ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Theological Methodology

Throughout history there have been theological tensions between official church teachers and church theologians, creating at times a divide between both the magisterium and theologians and also between theologians of different methodological approaches. We offer as examples of tension the declarations by the USCCB's Committee on Doctrine (CD) on the “inadequacies in the theological methodology and conclusions” of our book and of the books of three other contemporary theologians. These examples afford us the opportunity both to consider the theological tensions in general and to propose a solution to them. We establish some ecclesial context for dialogue with the CD, calling attention to four factors in this context: first, recent patterns of discourse between theologians and the magisterium in statements issued against particular theologians; second, an important change in the Catholic concept of church; third, an equally important change in how Catholic theologians set about doing theological ethics; and fourth, the reaffirmation of the importance of conscience by the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s and, more recently, by Pope Francis.

scholarly journals Fraternity in the Teaching of Pope Francis

2021 ◽  
Vol 90 (5) ◽  
pp. 701-740
Author(s):  
Wojciech Kućko
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Social Character ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Catholic Church

The time of the coronavirus pandemic and the COVID-19 disease was an opportunity to ask anew many questions concerning interpersonal relations. In this context, Pope Francis tries to take up the therapy of fraternity in order to effectively and consistently contrast the “globalization of indifference” with the “globalization of fraternity and solidarity.” The aim of this article is to show the essence of fraternity in the teaching of Pope Francis (before the publication of papal encyclical letter Fratelli tutti about fraternity) in the context of the teaching of the Catholic Church. The article presents the biblical roots of fraternity as well as its inclinations in the Magisterium of the Second Vatican Council and subsequent popes. The reinterpretation of the term “fraternity” in Francis’ thought includes: the “mysticism of the fraternity,” its inter-religious and social character, its global fraternity on the level of bioethics and ecology, and its connection to the “theory of contradictions” (Germ.: Gegensatz), which the Pope took from R. Guardini.

scholarly journals Making Fraternity an Essential Link in Christian-Muslim Relations

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-38
Author(s):  
Luboš Kropáček
Keyword(s):  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Personal Involvement ◽  
The Past ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Saint Francis

The article provides a survey of ideas and initiatives advanced by Christian and Muslim religious leaders and believers towards a mutual religious rapprochement in the past more than fifty years. On the Christian side, the process was started at the Second Vatican Council and developed with the great personal involvement of all popes of the following half-century. Muslim positive initiatives, from official centres as well as from committed intellectuals, have appeared somewhat later and still have to combat hostile moves of partisans of radical Islamism. Our article discusses the culminating point reached so far in the positive efforts of Pope Francis in his meetings with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmad al-Tayyib, including their agreement on the fraternity as a desirable bond for all believers in God. Our reflections try to mark out the main points of understanding achieved by the two religious leaders in the document signed by them in Abu Dhabi in February 2019 and, thereafter, further developed by the Pope in his comprehensive encyclical Fratelli tutti, issued in Vatican on the feast of Saint Francis in October 2020.

scholarly journals Le pape François et la mondialisation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Vian
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary History ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Church

The essay aims to analyse Francis’s pontificate in the context of globalisation. First of all, it sights to understand the conception of time and the role of the Church in contemporary history according to Bergoglio. Secondly, it is Pope Francis’ own report to globalisation that is examined. The main axes of the mission of the Church traced by the pontificate of Francis draw inspiration from the Second Vatican Council, in a non-static and formalistic way, but rather dynamic, in order to give strength to the announcement of the Gospel of mercy in contemporary history and to help humanity overcome its dramatic conflicts.

scholarly journals The Teaching of Pope Francis About Synodality in the Context of Contemporary Theological and Ecumenical Reflection

2021 ◽  
Vol 91 (5) ◽  
pp. 147-173
Author(s):  
Janusz Bujak
Keyword(s):  
Local Church ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Lumen Gentium ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Church

The article deals with the ecclesiology of the local Church and synodality. Both topics have been present in Catholic theology since the time of the Second Vatican Council, which laid the foundation for the ecclesiology of the local/particular Church, collegiality of bishops and synodality. This ecclesiology was developed both theoretically and practically in the post-conciliar period, but there are some theologians who believe that during the pontificate of John Paul II there was a return to the universalist ecclesiology, as evidenced by the documents published by the Roman Curia, especially Communionis notio. Pope’s Francis teaching on synodality and strengthening the Church at local and regional levels addresses the demands of those theologians who believe that Chapter III of the Lumen Gentium Constitution has not yet been properly implemented. The Pope emphasizes, that synodality is a constitutive dimension of the Church and therefore what the Lord is asking of us is already in some sense fully present in the word “synod” itself.

scholarly journals Renovação carismática como movimento pós-conciliar: 50 anos depois, balanço e perspectivas

2017 ◽  
Vol 77 (308) ◽  
pp. 852-879
Author(s):  
Pedro Rubens
Keyword(s):  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Third Place ◽  
Charismatic Movement ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The Third ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Future ◽  
Golden Jubilee ◽  
The Church

Síntese: A hipótese dessa reflexão é a Renovação Carismática Católica (RCC) como movimento pós-conciliar. Mas o Concílio que renovou a Igreja é apenas uma referência remota para o movimento carismático ou, de fato, é também uma bússola de orientação de seus rumos? No horizonte dos mais de 50 anos pós-concílio e na celebração do jubileu de ouro do movimento, o artigo propõe-se, primeiramente, fazer a memória das três grandes fases da RCC, sobretudo no Brasil: gênese, evolução e consolidação. Em um segundo momento, o artigo mostra a apreciação geral do movimento, tanto por parte da hierarquia eclesiástica, quanto dos teólogos, ao longo desses 50 anos de existência. Em terceiro lugar, o Autor propõe um discernimento em forma de balanço, ponderando entre as contribuições da RCC e os principais questionamentos feitos ao movimento. Enfim, Pedro Rubens retoma sua hipótese com base nas orientações conciliares e nos apelos do Papa Francisco à RCC, indicando, assim, uma agenda aberta ao futuro, tendo o concílio Vaticano II como referência e bússola.Palavras-chave: Renovação Carismática Católica. Jubileu RCC. Vaticano II.Abstract: The hypothesis of this reflection is the Catholic Charismatic Renovation (RCC) as a post-conciliar movement. But is the council which renewed the Church only a remote reference for the Charismatic movement, or is it, in fact, also a compass of orientation for its course? In the light of more than 50 years passed since the closing of the council and of the celebration of the golden jubilee of the movement, the article proposes, in the first place, to recall the three big phases of RCC, principally in Brazil: genesis, evolution and consolidation. In a second part, the article shows the general appreciation of the movement as well by the ecclesiastic hierarchy as by theologians during these 50 years of its existence. In the third place, the author proposes a judgement in the form of a balance, reflecting the contributions of the RCC and the principal questionings of the movement. Lastly, as a conclusion, Pedro Rubens again takes up his hypothesis on the basis of the orientations of the council, and principally remembering the last appeals of Pope Francis to the RCC, thus indicating an appointment book open to the future, which has the Second Vatican Council as reference and compass, as it should be regarded by all Catholics.Keywords: Catholic Charismatic Renovation. Second Vatican Council. 50 Years CCR

scholarly journals LA REFORMA DE LA CURIA ROMANA DEL PAPA FRANCISCO Pope Francis reform of the Roman Curia

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Enrique Somavilla
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Canon Law ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Pope John Paul Ii ◽  
Code Of Canon Law ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Holy See ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Apostolic See ◽  
City State

La Iglesia Católica ha llevado a cabo varias reformas de la Curia romana, semper reformanda, de acuerdo con las exigencias de los nuevos tiempos, de la vida eclesial y del propio espíritu conciliar.Pablo VI consiguió la acomodación a los postulados del Concilio Vaticano II mediante la Constitución apostólica Regimini Ecclesiae Universae. Los cambios efectuados por Juan Pablo II, con la Constitución apostólica Pastor Bonus, significaron la adaptación al Código de Derecho canónico de 1983. La reforma de la Curia romana acometida por el papa Francisco deja de lado muchas de tradiciones protocolarias propias de la Sede Apostólica a lo largo de los siglos y nos manifiesta un cambio de época que afecta, de forma singular, a instituciones como el Estado de la Ciudad del Vaticano, la Santa Sede y propia la Iglesia Católica, tal y como veremos en la nueva Constitución Apostólica, cuya publicación está prevista para febrero de 2015._________________________Catholic Church has carried out several reforms of the Roman Curia, semper reformanda, in accordance to the requirements of the new times, the ecclesiastical life and the conciliar spirit. Pope Paul VI accomplished the adaptation to the Second Vatican Council through the Apostolic Constitution Regimini Ecclesiae Universae. Pope John Paul II reform, the Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus, meant the accommodation to 1983 Code of Canon Law. The reform of the Roman Curia undertaken by Pope Francis puts aside many ceremonial traditions of the Apostolic See, showing us a change of an era affecting, particularly, to institutions as the Vatican City State, the Holy See and the Catholic Church itself, as we´ll see in the new Apostolic Constitution, to be published in February 2015.

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