A VISION OF CHURCH FOR THE FUTURE
Keywords:
Mission, People of God, Reign of God, Signs of the Time, Christian Communities, Solidarity, Women’s Leadership RolesAbstract
The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI brought into public domain the
numerous problems the institutional Church is besieged with but the
election of a Latin American Pope brought us a ray of hope. A man
with his ear to the ground, constantly “reading the signs of the time
and interpreting it in the light of the gospel” (Gaudium et Spes, #;
hereafter GS), he calls upon the entire Church to transform itself. He
outlines the transformation in his first encyclical Evangeli Gaudium
[hereafter EG].
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