In the context of the ecumenical dialogues which have taken place after the Second Vatican Council, few topics have generated as much discussion and reflection as that of the papacy. What has been the function of this service of unity? What are the foundations of its existence? What are its unrelinquishable elements which cannot change? What can be renewed in the manner in which the office is carried out?
John Paul II's encyclical On Commitment to Ecumenism" ("Ut unum sint") inspired these essays originally presented at a symposium in Rome. In this encyclical the Bishop of Rome...
In the context of the ecumenical dialogues which have taken place after the Second Vatican Council, few topics have generated as much discussion an...
Michael S. Driscoll J. F. Puglisi James F. Puglisi
The Process of Admission to Ordained Ministry, in volumes for the early and Medieval periods, the Reformation period, and contemporary times, analyzes the liturgico-canonical institutions of the particular time and the complex structure of ordination ad the relational dimension of the ordained ministry in the Church. Ordination links ministry, local church, confession of faith and communion in a process that is also communitarian, liturgical and juridical, and, through these traits, sacramental. It examines how Christian ordination cannot be reduced to a rite of installation or the acceptance...
The Process of Admission to Ordained Ministry, in volumes for the early and Medieval periods, the Reformation period, and contemporary times, analyzes...
