![]() ![]() The attentive and sapiential re-reading of the decree Presbyterorum Ordinis and of the successive body of teaching up to the Directory on the Ministry and Life of Priests took place from the 23rd to the 27th of October 1995, and was the occasion for finding a way of summing up the teaching, planning and organizing it for the further education of priests and those who form them. the English volume, Magisterium and Celibacy, the Catecheses of the Pope on Priests and Permanent Deacons, and the semiannual review Sacrum Ministerium), nor in setting up an institute for the permanent formation of priests nor by organizing symposia on crucial dimensions of priestly life. The Congregation has not spared any energy either in its publications (e.g. We have to admit that the attacks on the Church that try to reduce her to the purely horizontal dimension have been aimed at her priesthood. In these years, the Congregation for the Clergy has been guided by an awareness of the indispensable nature of the priesthood, by an awareness of the totality of the priest’s pastoral ministry, as well as by the fact that evangelization cannot prescind from the clarity of priestly identity nor from the sanctity of priests. Richard Malone.Ģ Cardinal Jose Sanchez was then Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy Archbishop Crescenzio Sepe is Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy. There were also the communications given by theologians, pastoral experts and lay persons that were rich, relevant and timely, but limitations of space force us to offer the briefest summaries.ġ Translated from the original Italian by Msgr. In our symposium six Cardinal experts have delivered the six principal papers that dealt with the principal themes of the life and ministry of priests. The Magisterium has produced a coherent body of teaching that began with Presbyterorum Ordinis, moved forward with the Synods of 19, and the Apostolic Exhortation Pastores Dabo Vobis, and has developed with the Directory on the Ministry and Live of Priests published by the Congregation for the Clergy in 1994. Such has been the case in the past thirty years, in which strong winds have blown, social contexts have changed, and dramatic challenges have suddenly appeared, to which the Magisterium has responded carefully and coherently under the guidance of the Spirit of God. ![]() With the passing of time a magisterial document should not lose its validity, but take on an expanded meaning in the light of new questions and challenges which the Church has to take up in a serious study. in a dynamic, missionary, and forward looking way that is faithful to the substance of the decree. We want to do this not with a purely celebratory approach to an event that is over and gone, but in an ecclesial way i.e. International Symposium on the Thirtieth Anniversary of theīy means of the international symposium we want to celebrate the Thirtieth Anniversary of the proclamation of the Conciliar Decree Presbyterorum Ordinis.
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