Bálint Sándor a boldoggá avatás küszöbén

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-83
Author(s):  
Dávid Péter Garai
Keyword(s):  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Lay Persons ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
The Church

This article explores the life of a lay person, Sándor Bálint (1904-1980), who lived an exemplary Christian life and whose process of beatification is currently underway. As a renowned professor and researcher of religious ethnography, a devoted politician, as well as a faithful Christian, Bálint served his country and every person he met with persistent and humble love. His life can be seen as a true realisation of the teaching of the Second Vatican Council concerning sainthood and the role of lay persons in the Church and society.

scholarly journals The Nature and Missionary Role of the Lay People in the Light of Vatican II; Convenience or Conviction?

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-36
Author(s):  
Francis Appiah-Kubi ◽  
Robert Bonsu
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Lay People ◽  
The People ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Church

The nature and the missionary role of the laity in the church is one of the issues currently vital to the church and theologians. From the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) perspective, the word laity is technically understood to mean all the faithful except those in holy orders and those in the state of religious life specially approved by the Catholic Church (LG31). These faithful are by baptism made one with Christ and constitute the People of God; they are sharers in the priestly, prophetic and kingly functions of Christ; and they carry out for their own part the mission of the whole Christian people in the church and in the world. However, the distinction between the ordained and the lay is a real one. A great deal of attention has been paid to the ordained ministry of the Church, its nature, its authority and its functions. The laity tends, by way of contrast, to be taken very much for granted, as though in their case no special problems arise. This study discusses the nature, role, and participation of lay people in the mission of the Church as proposed by the Second Vatican Council. It treats succinctly the historical development of the Laity and the challenges and opportunities inherent in their mission.

scholarly journals DESOCIDENTALIZAR O CRISTIANISMO

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (110) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Víctor Codina
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Local Churches ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Church

Em toda a Igreja surgem vozes pedindo que o cristianismo não continue a identificar-se com a cultura ocidental, mas se abra às diferentes culturas e nelas se inculture, dando continuidade ao dinamismo missionário da Igreja primitiva que o Vaticano II retomou. A ocidentalização do cristianismo, embora tenha produzido frutos positivos, também produziu uma série de efeitos negativos na vivência e expressão da fé cristã, que é necessário corrigir: intelectualismo racionalista, dualismo, imagem de Deus mais ligada ao poder que ao amor e compaixão. Temse a impressão que Atenas predomina sobre Jerusalém. Algumas crises em diversos setores da Igreja podem ser debitadas a esta identificação da fé com a cultura ocidental. Tanto a existência da Igreja cristã Oriental quanto a da Igreja Latino americana mostram que a desocidentalização e a inculturação não são impossíveis. As diferentes configurações das Igrejas locais não podem ser consideradas suspeitas, mas uma exigência da catolicidade da Igreja universal.ABSTRACT: From the entire Church several voices are demanding that Christianity does not continue to identify itself with Western culture, but it welcomes different cultures and incultures in them, moving forth the primitive church’s missionary dynamism that the Second Vatican council has reestablished. Despite some positive fruits, Christianity’s Westernizing has produced several negative effects in Christian life and faith expression which are necessary to correct: rationalist intellectualism, dualism, an image of God more connected to power than to love and compassion. It seems that Athens triumphs over Jerusalem. Some crises in several dimensions of the church are results of the identification faith-Western culture. Both the existence of the Eastern and Latin American Church shows that the de-westernizing and inculturation is not impossible. Different configurations of local churches cannot be considered with suspicion, but they are a fair demand of the church’s universal catholicity.

scholarly journals Gereja Persekutuan Umat Allah

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Novry Dien
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Church

This essay deals with the idea of the church as the people of God according to Lumen Gentium, a Second Vatican Council’s document on the Catholic Church. The author tries to explore and understand the historical background of this idea and its development. This idea can be traced in the patristic time when the church was still limited to some small communities in which the leadership of the church was more charismatic. As the Church grew bigger and needed to be organized, the role of the hierarchy was clearly emphasized and enjoyed its almost absolute privilege during the Middle Ages. The Church restored its initial understanding in the Second Vatican Council which opened the windows for active role of the lay persons in the life of the church, working together with the hierarchy to present salvation to the world. This essay also tries to explore some problem regarding this idea which arose in ecclesiological discourse after the Second Vatican Council.

scholarly journals Interpreting The Council: Archbishop Manning and the Vatican Decrees Controversy

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Paul von Arx
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Ecumenical Council ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Roman Catholics ◽  
The Church

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.

scholarly journals Prawodawca i jego sztuka

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 167-184
Author(s):  
Piotr Kroczek
Keyword(s):  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Law ◽  
Church Law ◽  
Great Love ◽  
The Church ◽  
Correct Translation

This article originated in an effort to present a church lawgiver, his work, and some of the rules the lawgiver’s work needs to follow to become an art. Rules for making the law should not stand in isolation from the rules that govern the interpretation of that law. In fact, rules for making the law should follow the rules of interpreting that very law. The article consists of two parts. The first one presents the theory of lawgiving while the second offers the rules in question. These rules can be grouped into three categories. Rules in terms of the person of the lawgiver: 1. Get to know yourself, 2. Be aware of your philosophical and theological horizon,3. Be prudent,4. Acquire proper knowledge, 5. Thoroughly estimate the results of the chosen law solution and its alternatives.Rules in term s of the community:1. Take under consideration a community you serve,2. Predict an acceptance of law,3. Take care of acceptance and reception of law,4. Listen to voices of community after the law comes into force.Rules in term s of the text of the law:1. Remember the role of the law in the Church,2. Take care of the theological correctness of the law,3. Make the law according to the thought of the Second Vatican Council,4. Be familiar with the existing legislative system,5. Do your best to formulate a clear law,6. Take into account the common law,7. Create a form of the law adequate to its importance,8. Use proper language to write the law (take care of correct translation), use proper words, and remember about the context of used words,9. Be aware that your words will be interpreted in wide or narrow way.The lawgiving activity takes place within the church itself. It does not come to it from the outside. It flows naturally from the Church’s mission to teach. The exercise of authority in the Church, and that includes the legislature, has its roots in love. When it fails to rely on love it is no longer a Church authority. The process of making church law can be called after L. Orsy: a small participation in the great love of God that presently and perpetually creates the Christian community. We see that acting in accordance with love a church legislator is capable of turning his work into art.

scholarly journals Elements of Father Andrei Scrima’s Ecumenical Activity as Reflected in File No. 0005468 from the “Securitate” Archives

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-511
Author(s):  
Iuliu-Marius Morariu
Keyword(s):  
Potential Role ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Political World ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Romanian Orthodox Church ◽  
Romanian Orthodox ◽  
The Church

Abstract The Romanian Archimandrite Andrei Scrima was an important worldwide theological personality. His activity as a kind of ambassador of the Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras to the Second Vatican Council, together with his publications, conferences and activity as a professor, transformed him into a voice that was almost always trusted. His attitudes and speeches that criticized the Romanian Communist regime made him also to be seen as an enemy by Bucharest’s government. In this context, the Securitate was interested in his ecumenical activity and in his ideas regarding the ecumenism and the potential role of the Romanian Orthodox Church there, trying also to see if his theological ideas were related to the political world and contained criticisms of the dictatorial regime or its relationship with the Church. In this paper, we will describe how his ecumenical activity is described in the Securitate Archives. Due to the fact that file no. 00005468 contains the most important information regarding this topic, the main references cited in the paper are extracted from this source.

scholarly journals The First Decree of the Second Vatican Council on the Role of Church Media and Its Present Use in the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine

2013 ◽  
pp. 287-291
Author(s):  
Pavlo Vyshkovskyy
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The United States ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Church ◽  
New Phase

On December 5, 1963, at the end of the second session of the Second Vatican Council, a "Decree on means of public notice" was signed together with the Constitution on the Holy Liturgy. This was the first of the nine decrees issued by the Council, which expressed the views of the entire Ecumenical Church, which represented at the Council more than 2500 bishops, experts and theologians who participated in the General Assembly. Almost half of the Fathers of the Council were pastors of European dioceses. There were also 379 African bishops, 300 bishops from Asia and almost a thousand from the United States at the Council. All of them - the heirs of the College of the Apostles - saw humanity entering into a new phase of dialogue through the media, and wanted to answer the question of whether the Church could use them for their development and proclamation of the Gospel.

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.

The Role of the Catholic Laity in Yorkshire, 1850–1900

1987 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-317
Author(s):  
Jennifer F. Supple
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
The People ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Church

THE ROLE of the laity in the Church is a topic of great interest today. Since the second Vatican Council the part which the people could, and should, play in the Church has been discussed at length, and the shortage of priests has led to demands for the laity to become more actively involved in spiritual affairs. Some, however, still maintain that spiritual tasks must be left to the ordained, but would like to see the laity take a much more active role, as Catholics, in the secular sphere, representing and defending Catholic values in public life. In the light of the current debate, it is interesting to look at the role of the laity in the Catholic Church in Yorkshire during the last century. At that time, too, there was a shortage of priests, while the role of Catholics in public life did not always fulfil the desires of Church leaders.

scholarly journals Paolo VI: la santitta come „dramma di amore”

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-29
Author(s):  
Aldino Cazzago
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

The article presents the teaching of Pope Paul VI on holiness. It shows the context of this teaching, which was the findings of the Second Vatican Council. The article shows how the pope understood what holiness is, how he understood the relationship between holiness and love, the role of the Church and the action of the Holy Spirit.

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