Published: 2017-12-06

W kierunku odnowionej wizji rozeznania duszpasterskiego od "peryferii' Kościoła do jego "centrum". Analiza na przykładzie posoborowych reform 'visitas ad limina aspostolorum'

Artur Antoni Kasprzak
Warszawskie Studia Pastoralne
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/wsp.2017.12.3.36.01

Abstract

Pastoral discernment of Pope Francis emphasized the expression “periphery of the Church”. e term is used in the sense of a new awareness of the Church towards the poors and social exclusion. is study intends the periphery of the Church in another sense, that in connection with the post-conciliar debate about the decentralization of the Church. a er Vatican II, the implementation of episcopal collegiality, the central theme of the Council, has shifed the balance point in the pastoral discernment: from the dynamic “from the centre to the periphery” to “from the periphery to the centre”. e centre means the Church of rome and the periphery the local Churches. We propose an analysis of this new dynamic at the base of the Ad limina visits afer Vatican II. In 1975, the functioning of this institution become more collegial. e meetings with the pope and the roman Curia are or- ganized by group of bishops and attention shi s more to the churches in the periphery and to their life they are experiencing. e post-conciliar orientation of Ad limina visits shows that there is a signi cant element of decentralization of the Church a er last Council. 

Keywords:

Ad limina visits, episcopacy, collegiality, Pope, the centre and periphery of the Church, Pope Francis, Pope Paul VI, pastoral discernment, ecumenism, Council Vatican II

Citation rules

Kasprzak, A. A. (2017). W kierunku odnowionej wizji rozeznania duszpasterskiego od "peryferii’ Kościoła do jego "centrum". Analiza na przykładzie posoborowych reform ’visitas ad limina aspostolorum’. Warszawskie Studia Pastoralne, 3(36), 7–30. https://doi.org/10.21697/wsp.2017.12.3.36.01

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