Nowa ewangelizacja problematyką kolejnego Synodu Biskupów (2012). Refleksja kanoniczno-pastoralna

Abstract

Pope Benedict XVI announced the meeting of another Bishops Synod, it’ll be XIIIth General Normal Meeting, which will be held from 7th to 28th of October 2012, and it’s main subject will be “New evangelization for the transfer of the Christian faith” It will be the twenty fourth meeting of the institution since its creation by the pope Paul the VIth in 1965. The main task of the general normal meeting of the Bishops Synod is dealing with issues which are directly connected to the good of all Church, in the perspective of new Bishops Synod, the General Office of the Bishops Synod printed relevant “Lineamenta”, which were preceded with a “Foreword”, signed by the General Secretary of the Bishops Synod. They are an important base document, with the doctrine-practical meaning, for a successful carrying out another Bishops Synod. The debate on this document, which is preparing another Bishops Synod for the subject of evangelization, is connected with a reminding the common responsibility of the Episcopal College for evangelization in the modem world; moreover it’s pointing on the role and meaning of the ecclesial communion, which should characterize every Bishops Synod, as also reminds previous meetings of this institution, which were directly dealing with evangelization issues. It seems that the reading of the “Lineamenta” should have common character and not always should be the subject of specialist reflection. Perhaps to such a purpose may serve its multilingual development of the text, which has been divided into three chapters, including the introduction and the summary. In the preface the General Secretary of the Bishops Synod, archbishop N. Eterovic shows the two elements in the perspective of new Bishops Synod. The first element is pointing on the purpose of the closest Bishops Synod, which has to be seen with the relation to previous meetings on the evangelization subject, and the second element describes the preparation and the purpose of the printed document.