Pave Benedikt: Det har ofte vært alvorlige kriser etter de store kirkemøtene
Pave Benedikt er en særdeles dyktig lærer og en klar tenker, og beviste dette på nytt da han for noen dager siden (uforberedt) svarte på ti spørsmål stilt av prester i en bispedømme i Nord-Italia. Spørsmåla handla om svært forskjellige ting, men mange syns det siste spørsmålet var det mest aktuelle (og svaret her det mest interessante); om hvorfor problema, forvirringa og skuffelsene etter Vatikankonsilet har vær så store:
Paven begynner å svare på denne måten:
I, too, lived through Vatican Council II, coming to Saint Peter’s Basilica with great enthusiasm and seeing how new doors were opening. It really seemed to be the new Pentecost, in which the Church would once again be able to convince humanity. After the Church’s withdrawal from the world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it seemed that the Church and the world were coming together again, and that there was a rebirth of a Christian world and of a Church of the world and truly open to the world.
We had such great hopes, but in reality things proved to be more difficult. Nonetheless, it is still true that the great legacy of the Council, which opened a new road, is a “magna carta” of the Church’s path, very essential and fundamental.
But why did this happen? I would like to begin with an historical observation. The periods following a council are almost always very difficult. After the great Council of Nicaea – which is, for us, truly the foundation of our faith, in fact we confess the faith as formulated at Nicaea – there was not the birth of a situation of reconciliation and unity, as hoped by Constantine, the promoter of the great Council, but a genuinely chaotic situation of a battle of all against all.
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