Laicato e corresponsabilidade: protagonismo no Documento de Aparecida

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Fiore, André Gustavo De
• Orientador(a): Souza, Ney de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Teologia
• Departamento: Teologia
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Protagonismo leigo; Discipulado missionário; Corresponsabilidade laical
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Lay protagonism; Missionary discipleship; Lay responsibility
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/18377

The final text of the V CELAM Conference brings Missionary Discipleship as a central element for the pastoral and evangelizing action of this Church in Latin America and directly takes up the conciliar ecclesiology of People of God Church. In this sense, the missionary activity of the Latin American Church face of today's realities urges the entire People of God to assume a proactive stance where all the baptized are called, from his gifts, charisms, conditions and ministries to stay on a permanent state of mission. We can see then that this call is directed strongly to the laity. Once belonging to the mystical body of Christ, which is the Church, they are called to be protagonists and share responsibility in continuing the mission of Jesus Christ. However, despite the clarity of the document, some barriers prevent the practical application of the aspirations of the V CELAM Conference. The traditional tension between clergy and laity; the lack of a theological and integral formation of the People of God; the difficulty of dialogue between hierarchy and society; the self-indulgence and lack of awareness on the part of the laity prevent the missionary discipleship becomes, in fact, an established practice in the communities. Given these observations, this paper presents three urgencies in the Latin American Church that can stimulate missionary discipleship and prevent the Aparecida document to be summarized as a beautiful theoretical text, but without practical application: The first consists of a mentality change by the whole Church, leaving aside historical trends hierarchized; the second is investment in a theological and integral formation of the whole People of God; Finally, it is vital a reform in church structures so that the Latin American Church gets a ministerial face, where the co-responsibility and communion of all, clergy and laity in the Church's mission be recognized