Participation – Authority – Leadership
October – December 2022 – no 17 2022
Participation
Authority
Leadership
The Gospel is not therefore solely entrusted to the witness and proclamation by a few “professionals” but involves all the members of the People of God…
EDITORIAL
Three keywords
Hubertus Blaumeiser
POPE FRANCIS
Openness in our ideas
Excerpts from a video message by Pope Francis to the recent plenary session of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America in May 2022 on the theme, “Synodality and Communion”.
MGR MATTEO VISIOLI
The nature of the Church and authority
Mgr. Matteo Visioli, former Undersecretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and Consultor for the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, offered important reflections on the exercise of ecclesial authority in this talk from September 2021.
CALLAN SLIPPER
Living moments of
disagreement well
The Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Communion takes place every 10 years. The theme of the 2022 conference was God’s Church for God’s world.
JESÚS MORÁN
A leadership of
Communion
A brief reflection on the changing images of a leader given by the Co-President of the Focolare Movement at an international meeting of community leaders.
EVA GULLO AND
ALBERTO FRASSINETI
Co-Responsibility
The authors, who have assisted General and Provincial Councils of Institutes, Congregations and Associations of the faithful to redesign and transform themselves, reflect on aspects of organizational leadership.
TIZIANA MERLETTI SFP
Decision-making
processes
The author offers practical suggestions for developing truly participatory processes around group decision-making. Sister Tiziana Merletti was formerly Superior General of the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor and currently works as a canonical consultant and leadership formator with committed religious and lay institutes.
ANDREW RECEPCION
The challenge to be a home
and a school of communion
On the 40th anniversary of the Scuola Epi, the Center of Spirituality for Priests and Seminarians of the Focolare Movement in Tagaytay (Philippines), Fr. Andrew Recepcion walks us through its 40-year history.