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Practices of Dialogue in the Roman Catholic Church - Aims and Obstacles, Lessons and Laments (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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Practices of Dialogue in the Roman Catholic Church - Aims and Obstacles, Lessons and Laments (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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One of the principal buzzwords of the Second Vatican Council
(1963-65), along with collegiality, co-responsibility, full
participation, and aggiornamento, was dialogue. This is a history
of how the practices of dialogue have actually worked or failed to
work at every level of the church over the past forty years.
Beginning at the most basic level, that of the parish, the book
moves up the ecclesiastical ladder from parish councils, to
diocesan synods, to the (Roman) synod of bishops. The book moves
laterally as well to include ecumenical and interreligious
dialogues. A chapter is devoted to the fractious Call to Action
Conference, initiated by the U.S. bishops in 1976; another to the
new inclusive style of drafting pastoral letters by the U.S.
bishops - "The Challenge of Peace" (1983), "Economic Justice for
All" (1986), and the never approved pastoral on women ("Partners in
the Mystery of Redemption"). A further chapter is devoted to
Cardinal Bernardin's Catholic Common Ground Initiative, which is
still going on, though it was initially publicly attacked by four
U.S. cardinals. Finally, there is a chapter on what was perhaps the
most radical and far-reaching exercise of dialogue of all, namely,
the dialogical and democratic processes by which women religious
revised their constitutions. This is a cautionary tale, filled with
thick description of advances and retreats. In a curious way, the
book is a sequel to the multi-volume "History of the Second Vatican
Council", edited by Giuseppe Alberigo and Joseph Komonchak If those
volumes tell us what transpired at the council, Hinze's volume
tells us what happened when the council fathers went home and all
the good ideas of the council were either put into effect or left
to gather dust in the dead-letter bin. Vatican Council II is an
ongoing experiment, and "Practices of Dialogue" is a series of
reports from the labs.
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