The (Unrealised Conciliar Theological-pastoral Themes in the Croatian Church. Pastoral Practice and Conciliar Renewal Today

Pedeseta obljetnica otvorenja Drugoga vatikanskog koncila povlaštena je prigoda cijeloj Crkvi za razmišljanje i preispitivanje dosadašnjeg tijeka koncilske obnove. Našoj domovinskoj Crkvi ta prigoda mora dodatno pomoći u rasvjetljavanju onih teološko-pastoralnih tema koje je Koncil snažno afirmirao, a koje se u dosadašnjoj pastoralnoj praksi nisu na prikladan način i u dovoljnoj mjeri ostvarile. U ovome radu pokušava se upozoriti na važnost tih tema te na, što je još značajnije, njihovu dodatnu afirmaciju i ostvarivanje. Izdvojeno je deset tema koje predstavljaju svojevrsno uporište razvijenoga pastoralnog djelovanja polazeći od koncilske ekleziologije i pastoralnih naputaka. Iako bi popis sličnih tema mogao biti puno duži, ovdje se zaustavljamo na proučavanju deset tema, budući da bi drukčiji pristup daleko nadišao okvire ovoga rada. Ovdje izdvojene teme u našoj pastoralnoj praksi se ostvaruju, ali ne uvijek na prikladan način. Stoga se u ovome radu, koristeći metodu teološko-pastoralnog raspoznavanja, pokušava upozoriti na one elemente koji su u ostvarivanju izdvojenih tema potrebni dodatne pastoralne aktualizacije.The fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council is a privileged opportunity for the whole Church to reflect and review the course of the Conciliar renewal up until now. For our home Church this opportunity has to be used as an additional help in a further reflection on those theological-pastoral themes which were strongly affirmed at the Council, but which have not received an adequate attention and were, therefore, somewhat neglected in the pastoral practice up until now. In this article, the author tries to emphasise the importance of these themes, which would, hopefully, lead to their affirmation and implementation. In that effort, he selected ten themes that are of utmost importance for a developed pastoral practice, considered in the light of the Conciliar ecclesiology and pastoral guidelines. The author is aware that the list of themes could be substantially longer, but he chose to limit himself to these ten themes in order to stay within the bounds of this article. As already stated, the selected themes are somewhat affirmed in our pastoral practice, but not always in an adequate way. Therefore, the author utilises a method of theological-pastoral discernment, in order to identify those elements of the selected themes which need to receive more pastoral attention