Medellín as synodal event. A collegial ecclesiality begotten and accomplished

• Autor(a) principal: Luciani, Rafael
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Horizonte - Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ciências da Religião
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/horizonte/article/view/P.2175-5841.2018v16n50p482
• topic: Medellín; Collegiality; Sinodality; People of God; Latin American Church; Religion Science; Theology; Medellín; colegialidad; sinodalidad; Pueblo de Dios; Iglesia Latinoamericana; Ciencias de la religión; teología

The Medellin Conference represented a unique reception of the Second Vatican Council, positioning the Latin American Church as a Source Church. This Conference not only created a collegial way of interacting at a continental level through the Latin American Council of Bishops (CELAM), but also inaugurated a way of being and working, and a mode of interaction that gave birth to a way of proceeding that would characterize the Latin American Church own`s identity. In this article, we understand Medellín as an epochal event that can not be reduced to a mere text. The way in which the Conference proceeded, more environmental than thematized, gave rise to a spirit of prophetic convergence among bishops, priests, religious and lay, that took shape in the method of work, the relationships among the participants, the daily liturgy, the disposition for listening and having open discussions among all. In this article we explain how all this inaugurated a unique ecclesiality inspired by a collegial practice, and completed by a Synodal Spirit that advanced the ecclesial model of People of God of the Second Vatican Council.