Focolare

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postiosoitteella: Focolare, Amurinkuja 21 A, 33230 TAMPERE (puhelin: 03-2133 769).

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Yhteystiedot:
Focolare Amurinkuja 21 A,
33230 Tampere
Puh. 03-2133769
Sähköposti focolare.fi(at)kolumbus.fi

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Tässä kiinostava englannin kielinen artikkeli.

Church or Little Churches? The Sectarian Threat of Catholic Movements
In the journal “Concilium,” Luca Diotallevi addresses the problem created by the new Church movements. And he bets on Catholic Action and the “religious choice”

by Sandro Magister



ROMA - “Concilium” is the most read and most cited theological journal in the world. Published in seven languages, its founders include Karl Rahner, Edward Schillebeeckx, Hans Küng, Johann Baptist Metz, Yves Congar and Gustavo Gutierrez – the cream of the crop of 20th-century progressive Catholic theology. The Italian edition, printed by Queriniana in Brescia, is directed by Rosino Gibellini.

The journal’s latest release, No. 3 of 2003, is titled: “Catholic Sects?”. It was edited by Alberto Melloni, an Italian historian of Christianity, and Miklós Tomka, a Hungarian sociologist of religion.

One of its essays is titled, “Catholicism on the way to Sectarianism? An Old Hypothesis for New Problems,” and is written by Luca Diotallevi, who is a professor at the “Roma Tre” University and a consultant for the “cultural project” of the Italian bishops’ conference.

Diotallevi focuses on the problem created by the “movements”: Opus Dei, the Sant’Egidio community, Communion and Liberation, the Legionaries of Christ, Renewal in the Spirit, the Neocatechumenal Way, Focolare, etc. They see their respective founders, rather than their local bishops, as heads and supreme rulers. They refer directly to the pope as their one connection to the Church. To different degrees they bear the distinctive features of a sect. The risk is that they will transform the Catholic Church into a body of memberships in juxtaposed groups that don’t communicate with each other: each movement with its own liturgy, its own discipline, its own system of authority and beliefs.