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Summary: In the context of the ecclesiology of Vatican II and of the post-Conciliar period, the Author offers a commentry on last year’s document of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a document that empahsises both the continuity-in-development of the Council’s doctrine with the teaching that preceded it, and the historically continuous s... ()

Summary: This article is occasioned by the reactions to the discontinuation, in the Annuario Pontificio of 2006, of the title “Patriarch of the West” referred to the Roman Pontiff, and sets out to show that Pope Benedict XVI made the decision independently and responsibly.

Summary: This year will see the re-launching of the Catholic-Orthodox theological dialogue, which will face the delicate subject of the Primacy of the Roman Pontiff, apparently in relation to Eucharistic ecclesiology. Analysing the views of the dialogue partners on this matter, as they emerge from the most recent literature on the subject, the author highlights th... ()

Summary: The author makes use of his experience as a co-worker, during more than twenty years, with the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation of Faith, to draw up a brief presentation of the new Pope, Benedict XVI, and of his intellectual stature. Particular attention is paid to his thought, as it emerges from many of his studies and document... ()

Summary: Among the many questions proposed by Indian Theology, the author is particularly interested in the possible institution of autonomous Churches. Within a historic panorama, the article describes the nature of such Churches in the light of proposals offered by theologians concerned with the project, demonstrating the risks invol... ()

SUMMARY: In this first part of the author's study, the question is approached by considering the Lutheran perspective on the primacy, within the wider context of Lutheran ecclesiology conditioned by its distinctive understanding of justification.  This is followed by a systematic analysis of the documents of the ecumenical dia... ()

SUMMARY: From a review, above all, of the discourses of recent Popes and various figures in the Eastern Churches, of their common declarations and the documents arising from the dialogue, it is clear that the use of the term «sister Churches», from an original reference to the relationship among the Eastern Churches, has as... ()

Summary: The author takes as his point of departure several criticisms in reviews of his book II Papa Patriarca d'Occidente? Studio Storico Dottrinale (Bologna, 1993), not so much to reite­rate his thesis but to examine more closely a few ecclesiological issues which emerged in the revie­ws themselves. In particular, he tak... ()

Summary — In conclusion to the preceding researches on the title « Patriarch of the West», the Author proposes some doctrinal considerations, examining in the light of Vatican II whether the pentarchic theory and the coexistence of primatial and patriarchal powers in the same person of the Bishop of Rome are reconcila... ()

Summary — At the conclusion of the previous research, which appeared already in this review, dealing with the Western Patriarchate, the author examines the debates of Vatican II. In such debates the question arose especially in the context of revaluating the patriarch of the Eastern Church and the connection of the bishop of Rome with the episcopal College. ... ()

Summary — Following previous research on the origin of the Western Patriarch, the author examines the debates of Vatican I. In some inter­ventions, made with the aim of claiming the rights and privileges of the Patriarchs in comparison with the primacy, one encounters some hint, more or less direct, to the patriarchate of the... ()

L’eucaristia «è la prima ad aver fatto le spese di un’idea di Chiesa non cattolica e perciò di verità relativa» (p. 135). È questa l’espressione che concentra i diversi “misteri” presentati nel libro dell’amico Nicola Bux, come del resto appare dal sottotitolo ... ()

“Giovanni Paolo II ha dimostrato in molteplici occasioni di saper davvero cogliere i segni dei tempi e il loro incessante mutare, con grande libertà e capacità di anticipo rispetto alle opinioni più diffuse. Coerentemente, egli ha potuto non limitar­si a registrare e interpretare gli eventi dopo che erano... ()

Il volume raccoglie precedenti scritti (20) dell’illustre Porporato, concernenti  il dialogo cattolico/luterano, con il preciso intento di esprimere anche un giudizio critico sulle espressioni realistiche o illusorie che l’ecumenismo ha coniato per descrivere i risultati raggiunti.

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Con questo volume l'autore, docente di Ecclesiologia presso la Pontificia Univer­sità della Santa Croce e, da ottobre del 2003, professore ordi­nario presso l’Istituto di Diritto Canonico San Pio X a Venezia, offre un’interessante panora-mica sulla realtà della Chiesa locale.

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Pur nella sua piccola mole, il volume presenta una panoramica completa, approfondita e bene articolata del sacramento dell'Ordine, in 8 capitoli dedicati rispettivamente al suo fondamento (il sacerdozio di Cristo, perpetuato nel sacerdozio degli apostoli, in virtù della successione apostolica), alla sua natura, alla sua diversa gradualità, alle m... ()

Summary: Drawing from certain criticisms of Dominus Iesus, the author demonstrates first how, on the basis of the phrase subsistit in of Lumen Gentium 8, the Declaration reasserts that there is only one Church of Christ, and it subsists in the Catholic Church. From this follows the recognition of the status as Churches, though wounded, of the Orthodox Churches, a... ()

Indubbio plauso meritano i curatori di questa poderosa opera in onore del Prof. Donato Valentini, che vuole essere un doveroso riconoscimento della sua molteplice attività di studioso e docente nel campo dell’ecclesiologia e specialmente dell'ecumenismo.

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