{"id":11431,"date":"2016-08-03T22:24:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T20:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/?p=11431"},"modified":"2016-08-04T22:32:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T20:32:22","slug":"pave-frans-vi-ma-vaere-naer-det-sekulaere-samfunnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/2016\/08\/pave-frans-vi-ma-vaere-naer-det-sekulaere-samfunnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Pave Frans: Vi m\u00e5 v\u00e6re n\u00e6r det sekul\u00e6re samfunnet"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Allen skriver<\/a> om pave Frans’ m\u00f8te de de polske biskopene for noen dager siden, og sier at pave Frans der fremhevet «vicinanza» (n\u00e6rhet) heller enn konfrontasjon for \u00e5 overvinne sekulariseringen:<\/p>\n

On Tuesday the Vatican released the transcript of a July 27 question-and-answer session Pope Francis held with the bishops of Poland, in which he seemed to suggest that the right way to resist secularism isn\u2019t to prevail in intellectual arguments, but to \u201cout-love\u201d the opponents of the faith. … There are several fascinating nuggets, including:<\/p>\n

– Francis\u2019 reflection on what he sees as a contemporary form of Gnosticism that seeks to separate the individual from the community, especially the Church.<\/p>\n

– His fiery rejection of \u201cideological colonization,\u201d especially the promotion among children of the theory that people are free to choose their own gender.<\/p>\n

– His insistence that the roots of the contemporary refugee crisis are in wars driven by financial interests.<\/p>\n

– The pontiff\u2019s ringing defense of the parish as the basis of ecclesiastical life, that must not be \u201cthrown out the window.\u201d<\/p>\n

– Francis\u2019 call to treasure the elderly, the \u201cgrandpas and grandmas\u201d of society, as the \u201cmemory of a people.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the big-picture level, however, perhaps what\u2019s most fascinating is the alternative way of reading the \u201cprogressive\u201d social and ecclesial agenda that\u2019s been associated with Francis since the beginning of his papacy.<\/p>\n

Clearly, Francis has shifted the focus away from the \u201cwars of culture\u201d in the West and open confrontation with secularism, towards a more pastoral and social action-oriented approach. In the eyes of some observers – including, it has to be said, some senior Churchmen – that\u2019s risked confusion about Catholic doctrine and the traditional spiritual pillars of the faith, opening the door to ever-greater capitulation to secularism.<\/p>\n

What becomes clear listening to Francis speak to the Polish bishops, however, is that seen through his eyes, the aim isn\u2019t giving in to secularization – it\u2019s staging the battle on a different field, away from abstract debates towards hands-on pastoral proximity – what Francis likes to call vicinanza, \u201ccloseness\u201d – especially to people in greatest difficulty.<\/p>\n

Though he doesn\u2019t quite put it like this, the idea seems to be that the right way to resist secularism and to win souls isn\u2019t to prevail in intellectual arguments, but to \u201cout-love\u201d the opponents of the faith and thereby draw people to the Church.<\/p>\n

There are several places in the text where, if one hadn\u2019t paid careful attention to the header, it would be tempting to think this was actually a transcript of Pope Benedict XVI. That\u2019s especially true of Francis\u2019 diagnosis of Gnosticism and Pelagianism as the most worrying contemporary heresies, and his insistence that neither God can be found without Christ nor Christ without the Church. …..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Allen skriver om pave Frans’ m\u00f8te de de polske biskopene for noen dager siden, og sier at pave Frans der fremhevet «vicinanza» (n\u00e6rhet) heller enn konfrontasjon for \u00e5 overvinne sekulariseringen: On Tuesday the Vatican released the transcript of a July 27 question-and-answer session Pope Francis held with the bishops of Poland, in which he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-katolsk","category-paven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11431"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11435,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11431\/revisions\/11435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}