Synodálne rozlišovanie ako nástroj organizačnej obnovy cirkevných štruktúr
Synodal Discernment as a Tool for the Organisational Renewal of Church Structures

Summary/Abstract: This study analyses the reform of the councils and commissions of the Conference of Bishops of Slovakia (KBS) as a case of synodal pastoral and organisational discernment. It follows three steps of the process: a working meeting in Nimnica, a questionnaire, and a working meeting of secretaries of councils and commissions in Žilina. In this sequence, participants first named the present reality and emerging questions of vision, then specified the experience of individual bodies, and finally reflected on strategic challenges facing the Church in Slovakia towards the year 2033. Methodologically it combines the pastoral-theological method see – judge – act, the synodal method of spiritual conversation, an expert focus group, phenomenological work with experience, and criteria of organisational development. The study also presents a catechumenal-mystagogical-synodal model of formation as one possible working stimulus, reads human experience as a secondary locus theologicus, and broadens the ad extra line. The results suggest that structural reform need not be reduced to redrawing an organigram; it can be supported by a process of shared discernment that relates organisational tools to the Church’s mission.

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