Sfide contemporanee del cattolicesimo globale
With over 70 per cent of the world’s Catholics now living outside Europe and North America, the Catholic Church is truly a global Church. However, it faces many challenges. That is why the Church of tomorrow must be more synodal, polycentric, and more open to lay voices and ministers, with a less cl...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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2021
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La civiltà cattolica
Year: 2021, Volume: 172, Issue: 4101, Pages: 272-287 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KDB Roman Catholic Church NBN Ecclesiology |
| Summary: | With over 70 per cent of the world’s Catholics now living outside Europe and North America, the Catholic Church is truly a global Church. However, it faces many challenges. That is why the Church of tomorrow must be more synodal, polycentric, and more open to lay voices and ministers, with a less clerical priesthood and fewer privileges; its mission must reach out to the excluded, the disaffiliated, and the growing Pentecostal communities in the Global South, where most Christians live today. Therefore, there must be a new ecumenism and a more effective dialogue with the other religions of the world. Pope Francis’ vision is that of a global Church, but from a polycentric, not Eurocentric perspective. |
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| ISSN: | 0009-8167 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: La civiltà cattolica
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