O discernimento inaciano: pondus hermenêutico do pontificado de Francisco

• Autor(a) principal: Duarte, Alexandre Freire
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/27378
• topic: Pope Francis; Spiritual discernment; Ignatius of loyola; “Spiritual exercises”

Given the, certainly comprehensible, proliferation of attempts, often mistaken due to several reasons not always honest or well-informed, to assess, interpret and explain the (apparent) coherences and (apparent) inconsistencies manifested during the pontificate of Pope Francis, this article is intended to be an aid to understand a substantial part of the fundamental spiritual network that guides this pontificate. Namely: Ignatian discernment. In this sense, the text will address in successive sections: the importance of discernment for our days; the definition of discernment; the foundational experience of Ignatius of Loyola; the meaning of spiritual “consolation” and “desolation”; the false consolation; the consolation without a preceding cause, and, finally, the election.