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By Michael Haynes, LifeSiteNews, Nov 3, 2023 – 11:41 am EDT
Pope Francis’ new mode of theological study directed Catholic theologians to draw from, or promote, the ‘people’s common sense’ in an ‘inductive method.’
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) –– Pope Francis has issued new priorities and statutes for the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Theology, stating that a newly focussed theology is needed, based on a popular “common sense” that is “often not corresponding to the Christian face of God.”
The Pope’s comments came in a November 1 motu proprio, by which he issued new directions and new statutes for the Pontifical Academy of Theology (PATH).
Francis wrote that the PATH has “constantly embodied the need to place theology at the service of the Church and the world,” but that under his new directives, change would be ushered in.
“After almost five decades, the time has come to revise these norms, to make them more suitable to the mission that our time imposes on theology,” the Pope wrote. “A synodal, missionary and ‘outgoing’ Church can only be matched by an ‘outgoing’ theology.”
Operating under the auspices of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, PATH was founded in 1718, and was previously described as having “the mission of promoting dialogue between faith and reason and of deepening Christian doctrine following the indications of the Holy Father.” …
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