Taken from author:- http://www.ncronline.org/authors/joshua-j-mcelwee
VATICAN CITY - A Vatican reading guide sent to Catholic bishops globally ahead of the release of Pope Francis' widely anticipated document on family life says the pontiff wants the church to adopt a new stance of inclusion towards society and to ensure its doctrines are: "at the service of the pastoral mission." The Vatican reading guide came to bishops alongside a letter signed by Cardinal Lorenzo Baldiserri, the head of the Vatican Synod office. The cardinal’s letter tells bishops that the exhortation is:- "first and foremost a pastoral teaching." The reading guide says Francis "wants to express himself in language that truly reaches the audience -- and this implies discernment and dialogue." Discernment, it says, "avoids taking truths and choices for granted; it has us examine and consciously adopt our formulations of truths and the choices."
McElwee concludes by quoting the summary document:-
"The Pope's concern is therefore to re-contextualize doctrine at the service of the pastoral mission of the Church," it states. Using a Greek word for the proclamation of salvation through Jesus, it states: "Doctrine should be interpreted in relation to the heart of the Christian kerygma and in the light of the pastoral context in which it will be applied."
http://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/vatican-guide-says-francis-family-document-puts-doctrine-service-pastoral-mission
VATICAN CITY - A Vatican reading guide sent to Catholic bishops globally ahead of the release of Pope Francis' widely anticipated document on family life says the pontiff wants the church to adopt a new stance of inclusion towards society and to ensure its doctrines are: "at the service of the pastoral mission." The Vatican reading guide came to bishops alongside a letter signed by Cardinal Lorenzo Baldiserri, the head of the Vatican Synod office. The cardinal’s letter tells bishops that the exhortation is:- "first and foremost a pastoral teaching." The reading guide says Francis "wants to express himself in language that truly reaches the audience -- and this implies discernment and dialogue." Discernment, it says, "avoids taking truths and choices for granted; it has us examine and consciously adopt our formulations of truths and the choices."
McElwee concludes by quoting the summary document:-
"The Pope's concern is therefore to re-contextualize doctrine at the service of the pastoral mission of the Church," it states. Using a Greek word for the proclamation of salvation through Jesus, it states: "Doctrine should be interpreted in relation to the heart of the Christian kerygma and in the light of the pastoral context in which it will be applied."
http://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/vatican-guide-says-francis-family-document-puts-doctrine-service-pastoral-mission
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