Kościół wiarygodny dziś w nauczaniu Jana Pawła II

Abstract

Because of the contestation of the contemporary Church the arguments for its credibility should be presented once again. This is mainly the Pope’s task. John Paul II meets the challange of our times showing the Church as a divine-human reality transcending human comprehension. Presenting his teaching about the Church he mainly uses the Second Vatican Council categories such as: the Mystical Body, sacrament, community. The category of community seems to be valorized in a special way by John Paul II. This allows him to show the Church as an „environment” in which faith, hope and love are the leading categories; in which a communion of Divine and human persons is realized; and where there is a synergy of all charismata and the spirit of advent is constantly experienced. The category of the Mystical Body allows the Pope to show a Church that is radically oriented towards Christ in whom it finds the basis of its existence. The category of the sacrament applied to the Church allows the Pope to present the Church as a place where a universal salutary will is realized through its visible structures. The Church is a sign that God gives people calling them to gather together in His Son by the power of the Holy Spirit. In the sacrament the sign fulfils the function of a transparent designed to show the reality of the mystery, and in the same way the Church is a transparent of the onthological connection between itself and Christ.