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Fall
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Revisiting A Concert of Charisms
Priestly Spirituality in a Changing Church Franciscans in the Maelstrom: The Politics of Poverty, Peace and Care for Creation Religious Men and Collaboration: A Strategy for Transformation Siding with Victims |
n 1997, after many years of discussion, dialogue, and study, the Conference of Major Superiors of Men published A Concert of Charisms: Ordained Ministry in Religious Life. It summarized and expanded a CMSM project that had been percolating since 1988. The project sought to address practical questions surrounding the identity of religious life in the midst of the ordained ministry and how those questions of identity impacted the efforts of religious institutes since the Vatican II mandate to return to the spirit and charism of our founders. No one seems to be prepared to say that this effort of retrieving community charism through and in the ordained ministry of the Church has reached fulfillment and clarity in these years since the publication of A Concert of Charisms. It is hoped that these papers will help the continuing process and encourage our perseverance. Read
the full introduction. . . Articles in this issue:
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