Teologia w Polsce, 2024, Tom 18, Nr 2

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    Perszon, Jan (Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II & Towarzystwo Teologów Dogmatyków, 2024)
    The subject of the article is the contemporary papacy in the aspect of its primary task, which is to serve the faith of the Church and effectively care for its unity. Over the past centuries, the Bishop of Rome enjoyed unquestionable authority in the Catholic world as the guardian and teacher of the faith, but also full jurisdictional authority in the universal Church. After the Second Vatican Council (during its reception), the papal prerogatives began to be quite widely (though not always openly) questioned. The reception of Vatican II coincided with the cultural revolution (including the revolution of 1968) and Paul VI‛s encyclical Humanae vitae. The pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI brought relative stability to Catholicism, while Francis proposed − especially by promoting synodality − a thorough reform of ecclesial life. At its core is concern for the „participation” and taking part in the entire life of the Church (including in its management) of all the faithful. This idea of „reconstructing” the Church, which is important for the Pope, is controversial. On the one hand it raises the question about the structure established by Christ, and therefore constitutive hierarchical Church (episcopate with its head, i.e. the successor of Peter), on the other hand, it gives rise to initiatives (see: the German synodal way) that seem to aim at constructing a newforms of ecclesial community. This is happening in an unprecedented context of secularization of Western societies, intentional marginalization of Christianity in public space and blurring the identity of Catholics. All this makes the papal ministry extremely difficult, and the future of Catholicism in the West is uncertain.