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Document Details : Title: Dans une église contestée, promouvoir la dignité des baptisés Author(s): FOSSION, André Journal: Lumen Vitae Volume: 67 Issue: 4 Date: 2012 Pages: 383-394 DOI: 10.2143/LV.67.4.2983505 Abstract : La catéchèse initie à la vie à la suite du Christ dans l’Église et dans le monde. On peut, selon l’A., avancer qu’elle vise à former des chrétiens qui, au contact du Christ et de l’Évangile, soient capables de s’indigner, y compris à l’intérieur de l’Église, pour un monde plus juste et une Église plus conforme à l’Évangile. Il s’agit de former des adultes dans la foi, conscients de leurs droits, capables d’assumer, dans la concertation, des engagements responsables et de faire naître du neuf avec discernement. How to catechize in a contested and contestable Church? This is the question addressed in this issue of Lumen Vitae. It is not by turning itself into a space for debate and struggle about all the controversial or contested questions in the Church that catechesis will be of most service. The Church can, of course, discuss and clarify such issues when questions arise or where current developments so demand. Catechesis aims to lead the catechized into communion with Christ. It initiates them into a life of following Christ in the Church and in the world. The five proposals we make are part of this perspective. They invite us to form Christians who, through contact with Christ and the Gospel, are able to grown indignant, including within the Church, in the quest for a more just world and a Church that is in closer conformity with the Gospel. What is important is to form adults in faith, aware of their rights, capable of assuming, in consultation, responsible commitments, and to awaken new possibilities. |
