Parish as a communion of...?
Parish as a communion of...?

Summary/Abstract: This paper attempts to show one of the first pieces of empirical research on a parish from the perspective of practical theology in the Czech Republic. It focuses on the Magisterium’s teaching on the parish after the Second Vatican Council. A parish is seen as the Church in its fullness, but it must be in harmony with the diocese and the whole universal Church with an emphasis upon the cooperation between a parish pastor and the lay members. The parish is theologically a communion, being the key concept of the Second Vatican Council and the time since. The emerging results from the ethnographic research show that the explored parish has been influenced by the work of its last two pastors and is a place that realises the functions of the Church relatively well.

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