A Parish - European Experience

Rasprava polazi sa stanovišta da suvremena župa na mnogim razinama ne može uspješno voditi pastoralni rad ako ne traži pastoralne obnove. U tom smislu prikazane su najprije tzv. disfunkcije sadašnje župe te modeli traganja za novim licem župe. Neki traže njezino novo lice u obnovi klasične župe, čime se tek djelomično postiže zadani cilj. Mnogo se napora ulaže u obnovu župe s obzirom na njenu mikro i makrostrukturu, to jest župu kao zajednicu zajednica (communitas communitatum) i u odnosu do takozvane pastoralne jedinice, u kojoj župa nalazi svoju teološku i društvenu nadopunu. Neki, međutim, traže obnovu župe u njezinoj socijalnoj i društvenoj dimenziji, koju osobito očekuje društvo i njegove institucije. U svakom primjeru župa mora produbljivati vlastitu teološku i eklezijanu narav da bi mogla pravilno shvatiti i opravdati pastorani rad koji se na mnogim područjima dodire društvenog života čovjeka i zajednice.The starting point of the debate is that a modern parish cannot, at many different levels, carry out the pastoral work without searching for pastoral renewal. First the so-called dysfunctions of a modern parish were presented, then the ways to search for its new face. Some see that new face in the renewal of the traditional parish, but that would fulfill a purpose only partially. A lot of effort has been put into the renewal which regards the micro and macrostructure of a parish, that is to say, a parish as the community of the communities (communitas communitatum), with respect to so-called pastoral unit (l\u27 unita pastorale) in which a parish can find its both theological and social complement. Others, however, search for the renewal of a parish through its social and welfare dimension, most expected by the society and its institutions. In both cases a parish is supposed to deepen its own ecclesiastic nature to be able to understand correctly and to justify pastoral work which, in many diffirent spheres, affects the social life of people and their communities