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2024 Association of Catholic Publishers First Place Award, Theology
Some are calling the synod on synodality "the greatest consultation effort in human history" and for good reason. It is no small task to listen to the world's 1.36 billion Catholics, especially when many Catholics have felt marginalized or unwelcome. Taking a cue from this ongoing synodal process, the experts gathered for Reforming the Church: Global Perspectives place the broader issues relating to church reform in their historical context, while exploring themes that have ongoing relevance to the universal church. Topics include ecclesial transfiguration and the episcopacy, clerical sex abuse, globalization of the church, and the theology of synodality. A number of chapters address issues of more local, or culturally-specific, significance, in this way mirroring the results of synodal consultations conducted worldwide.
What emerges is a reflection on the theme of reform within the church: what it has meant in the past, what it means for us now, and what it might mean in the future.
Contributors include:
Christopher M. Belitto — Shaun Blanchard — Agnès Desmazières — Massimo Faggioli
Francis Gonsalves, SJ — Julia Knop — Bishop Vincent Long, OFMConv
Rafael Luciani — Declan Marmion — Ethna Regan — Pedro Trigo, SJ
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction
Declan Marmion and Salvador Ryan xi
Synods, Reform, and Pope Francis: A Historical Perspective
Christopher M. Bellitto 1
True and False Reformers in the Church: Congarian Lessons for Today
Shaun Blanchard 17
"A Church That Listens":
Synodality in the Life and Mission of the Church
Declan Marmion 34
Synodality and the Appointment of Bishops:
Issues and Proposals from Vatican II to Global Catholicism Today
Massimo Faggioli 52
Toward an Effective Synodalization of the Whole Church
Rafael Luciani 67
Reforming the Church in the Era of Synodality
Bishop Vincent Long, OFMConv 84
Problems and Prospects of Synodality and Church Reform in India
Francis Gonsalves, SJ 98
Synodality with the People: A Latin American Perspective
Pedro Trigo, SJ 113
Between Crisis and Renewal:
The Synodal Path of the Catholic Church in Germany
Julia Knop 135
A Conversion to Dialogue:
The Church's Dialogical Reform in the Light of Gaudium et Spes
Agnès Desmazières 153
Toward Ecclesial Ethics:
A Reforming God, a Just Church, and Reformed Subjectivity
Ethna Regan 167
Epilogue: Reform and the Church of the Future
Kristin Colberg 180
Notes on Contributors 186
