A CHURCH WHICH GOES FORTH. THE ACTUALITY OF POPE FRANCIS' APOSTOLIC
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CRKVA KOJA IZLAZI. AKTUALNOST APOSTOLSKE POBUDNICE EVANGELII GAUDIUM PAPE FRANJE
A CHURCH WHICH GOES FORTH. THE ACTUALITY OF POPE FRANCIS' APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION EVANGELII GAUDIUM

Author(s): Nikola Vranješ
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History of Church(es), Family and social welfare, Pastoral Theology, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Katolički bogoslovni fakultet u Đakovu
Keywords: Evangelii Gaudium; evangelization; joy; pastoral care; family; parish;

Summary/Abstract: The Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis Evangellii Gaudium is surely one of the documents that will mark the pontificate of the present Pope, but also mark this period in the life of the Church in which we live and work. The document reflects the needs and challenges of the Church today. It views the entire scope of Church activities through the prism of evangelization. It outlines all essential elements of Church's life and activities, the elements for which there are given clear guidelines with respect to the transformation of some existing models of pastoral care, as well as to meet the challenges and problems that are clearly identified and called by their proper name. In the paper, we try to identify the essential points that reflect the actuality of this document with respect to the situation in our domestic Church. We approach the subject with the intention of theological-pastoral discernment of concrete pastoral in the light of the guidelines of this document. Here we refer to those elements of the existing pastoral care where the Church 'goes forth' to the peripheries of human lives that are in this respect particularly present.

  • Issue Year: 22/2014
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 447-468
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Croatian