Reflections on Pope Francis’ address to theologians – NCR article by Daniel P Horan

In an address to a gathering of theologians and academic administrators at the Vatican on Monday, Pope Francis spoke about the importance of theology, while also sharing his own desire for its future and extending an invitation to the assembled scholars to make theology accessible to all.

The event, titled “The International Congress on the Future of Theology” and hosted by the Dicastery for Culture and Education, brought together theologians from all six habitable continents. The structure of the two-day event centered on three questions: Where, how and why?

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The editor of praytell blog writes about the forthcoming publication of the new Italian Missal.
“In September, 2017 Pope Francis issued Magnum principium, which called for translations which are both faithful to Latin and respectful of the characteristics of the receptor language……
More significantly, Pope Francis restored authority over translations to bishops’ conferences, as the Second Vatican Council had decreed, and rolled back the creeping centralism of previous decades at odds with the Council’s decisions.”

It seems the Italian bishops have taken their responsibility to heart and acted accordingly. We struggle on …..

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