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Pope Francis’ Culture of Dialogue as Pathway to Interfaith Encounter: A Special Focus on Islam

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Pope Francis’ leadership has stimulated several debates within the Catholic Church and even in larger segments of the public. One of the most prominently debated issues is the one concerning the relationship with people of different religions and, more ...
Roberto Catalano
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Aspects of Synodality in Recent Catechetical Documents: The Directory for Catechesis and Antiquum Ministerium

open access: yesVerbum Vitae
This article seeks to draw out the implications of synodality as journeying together in some aspects of the Directory for Catechesis (2020) and of Antiquum Ministerium (2021).
Carl-Mario Sultana
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From Change to Transformation: Living Synodality in Ministry with Young Adults

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Pope Francis is calling on Catholic ministry leaders to embrace a more synodal church, a way of listening to the fruits of the Spirit and journeying together as people of faith.
Tracey Lamont
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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Blessed Are Those Who Do Not Know the Future of the Church. A Plea for Negative Ecclesiology

open access: yesStudia Theologica Varsaviensia, 2022
What will the future of the church look like? What type of mission should the church commit herself to? Rather than elaborating one more answer to these important questions, I have pleaded for negative ecclesiology and ‘the grace of self-doubt’. This is
Moons Jos
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Segni dei tempi, sinodalità, "gender" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
My analysis on the category of signs of times (SoT) shows how it can help to explain a few aspects of synodality. I will explain how synodality and SoT support each other and why Synods should teach a correct judgment of SoT. It is a way to educate God's
Migliorini, Damiano
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Synodality as the Listening Church: Pope Francis Continues and Expands Vatican II\u27s Teaching on Collegiality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
At the Ceremony Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Institution of the Synod of Bishops, 17 October 2015, Pope Francis affirmed that synodality is an essential dimension of the Church, and it is what the Lord asks the Church in the third millennium.
Phan, Toan Van, O.Cist
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