was the time of the Cologne Declaration, ie for more than twenty years, so numerous that a cartel theologians do not put together to produce a document against the centralism of Rome calling for reforms to the Church. Centoquarantatrè professors of faculties Theological German, Swiss and Austrian announced in recent days, a text entitled "Church 2011 - a change necessary." What do you ask? Of course, "radical reforms", such as the abolition of compulsory celibacy for priests of the Latin rite, and therefore open to the ordination of married men, the adoption of 'structures at all levels of the Synod of the Church ", the involvement selection process of the faithful priests and bishops, openness to women "in the ministry of the Church", the welcome of gay couples and the divorced and remarried.
The signatories believe that only by opening up to these reforms, precisely "a necessary turning point," the Church will accelerate again and go back to talking to the men and women of the twenty-first century. The list does not appear at all surprising. Those who believe the theologians who signed the proposals are in fact needed to be done very well known and debated for decades.
Some of these appear to be very self-referential and clerics. It is true, for example, that the decline in vocations is beginning to be a problem in the West, and it is true that in Germany and Austria there are many cases of priests who live with women and do not hide it, but really the abolition of rule of celibacy is the answer to this situation? Again, really the answer to the crisis of faith is open to women in ministry the Church? I really think that a change in doctrine on homosexuality would lead to refill the half-empty churches?
Just look at what happened in the Anglican Church to realize that the answer to secularization secularization can not be another, as evidenced by the constant hemorrhage of the faithful in spite of the increasingly liberal place (up from the priesthood and the episcopate to women 'openness to gay priests living together). What is striking about the 143 initiative is the fact that theologians are cyclically re-open questions without taking into account the fact that these issues reflected the teachers' union and has taken more than once.
Yet, despite pronouncements, encyclicals, pastoral letters, papal intervention, it is as if every time you ripartisse from scratch. Themes proposed in the document there is only one that really has to do with the experience of a number, unfortunately, more and more people, and that's about the attitude of the divorced and remarried and the question of the sacrament Eucharist.
Benedict XVI, homily Saturday at the ordination of five new bishops, said: "The pastor must not be a reed swamp which bends according to the wind, a servant of the spirit of the time. Being brave, the courage to oppose the current of the moment belongs to an essential task of the shepherd. It should not be a reed swamp, but - according to the image of the first Psalm - it must be like a tree that has deep roots in what is solid and well founded. This has nothing to do with the rigidity ol'inflessibilità . Only where there is stability there is also growing. "
Of course, the Pope spoke of bishops, not the theologians. But these words offer food for thought for all. We are very confident that the 'change necessary' to strengthen their faith in the secularized and de-Christianized society should have to do with church ministries, the discipline of celibacy, etc..? The
11 May 2010, in Lisbon, the Pope said: "It is perhaps putting too much trust in the structures and programs of the Church, the distribution of powers and functions, but what will happen if the salt becomes tasteless?.
Two days later, Fatima, said: "When, in the views of many, the Catholic faith is no longer the common heritage of society and often seen as undermined and overshadowed by a seed" gods "and the lords of this world very difficult it can touch hearts by a simple conversation or moral appeals, much less through general references to Christian values \u200b\u200b... What fascinates above all is an encounter with people who believe that through their faith, to attract the grace of Christ, bearing witness to Him. "
(Source: Andrea Tornielli, The Daily Compass, 7 February 2011)
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