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Discipleship, Vocation, Formation: On Antiquum Ministerium: Instituting the Ministry of Catechist – Catholic World Report
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Pope Francis on May 11 promulgated
Antiquum Ministerium, creating a formal, installed (instituted) ministry of catechist. The document was released with considerable Vatican fanfare, but many could be forgiven for viewing it with some skepticism as little more than a modest institutional concession within a larger ecclesiological framework that remains thoroughly clericalist and hierarchical.
After all, ordinary baptized Christians have always been the principal figures in the ministry of catechesis, and generally have had to undertake that ministry within a thoroughly clericalist paradigm that treated them as little more than priest-helpers. Does the pope s letter, issued
motu proprio (on his own initiative), change this in any substantial way? The document does present some difficulties, as we will see, but I will argue that it also moves the ball forward toward a more adequate ecclesiological framework for church ministry.
Description
With this Apostolic Letter issued “motu proprio,” Pope Francis established the lay ministry of catechist, intended to respond to an urgent need for the evangelization of the modern world, and undertaken in a “secular” manner, avoiding clericalization.
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Vatican, May 11, 2021
1. The ministry of Catechist in the Church is an ancient one. Theologians commonly hold that the first examples are already present in the writings of the New Testament. The service of catechesis may be traced back to those “teachers” mentioned by the Apostle in writing to the community of Corinth: “Some people God has designated in the Church to be, first, apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then, mighty deeds; then, gifts of healing, assistance, administration, and varieties of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work mighty deeds? Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? Strive eagerly for th