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APOSTOLIC LETTER
IN THE FORM OF A “MOTU PROPRIO”
OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF
FRANCIS
Ad theologiam promovendam
WITH WHICH ARE APPROVED
NEW STATUTES OF THE
PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF THEOLOGY
1. Promoting theology in the future cannot be limited to abstractly re-proposing formulas and schemes of the past. Called to prophetically interpret the present and glimpse new itineraries for the future in the light of Revelation, theology will have to confront profound cultural transformations, aware that: “What we are living through is not simply an era of change, but a change of epoch” (Address to the Roman Curia, Dec. 21, 2013).
2. The Pontifical Academy of Theology, which arose in the early 18th century under the auspices of Clement XI, my Predecessor, and was canonically established by him with the brief Inscrutabili on April 23, 1718, throughout its centuries-long existence has constantly embodied the need to place theology at the service of the Church and the world, modifying when necessary its structure and expanding its aims: from an initial place of theological formation of clergymen in a context where other institutions were lacking and inadequate for that purpose, to a group of scholars called upon to investigate and deepen theological themes of particular relevance. The updating of the Statutes, desired by my Predecessors, marked and promoted this process: think of the Statutes approved by Gregory XVI on August 26, 1838, and those approved by St. John Paul II with the Apostolic Letter Inter munera Academiarum on January 28, 1999.
3. After almost five years, the time has come to revise these norms, to make them more suitable for the mission that our time imposes on theology. A synodal, missionary and “outgoing” Church can only be matched by an “outgoing” theology. As I wrote in my Letter to the Grand Chancellor of the Catholic University of Argentina, addressing professors and students of theology, “Do not settle for a desk theology. Let your place of reflection be the frontiers. […] Good theologians, like good pastors, also smell of the people and the street and, by their reflection, pour oil and wine on the wounds of men.” Openness to the world, to man in the concreteness of his existential situation, with its problems, wounds, challenges, and potential, cannot, however, be reduced to a “tactical” attitude, extrinsically adapting now-crystallized content to new situations, but must urge theology to an epistemological and methodological rethinking, as indicated in the Proem of the apostolic constitution Veritatis gaudium.
4. Theological reflection is therefore called to a turning point, to a paradigm shift, to a “courageous cultural revolution” (Encyclical Letter Laudato si’, 114) that commits it, first and foremost, to be a fundamentally contextual theology, capable of reading and interpreting the Gospel in the conditions in which men and women daily live, in different geographical, social and cultural environments, and having as its archetype the Incarnation of the eternal Logos, its entering into the culture, worldview, and religious tradition of a people. From here, theology cannot but develop into a culture of dialogue and encounter between different traditions and different knowledge, between different Christian denominations and different religions, openly confronting everyone, believers and non-believers alike. Indeed, the need for dialogue is intrinsic to human beings and to the whole of creation, and it is the particular task of theology to discover “the Trinitarian imprint that makes the cosmos in which we live ‘a web of relationships’ in which ‘it is proper to every living being to tend toward another thing'” (Apostolic Constitution Veritatis gaudium, Proem, 4a).
5. This relational dimension connotes and defines, from the epistemic point of view, the status of theology, which is urged not to close itself in self-referentiality, which leads to isolation and insignificance, but to grasp itself as embedded in a web of relationships, first and foremost with other disciplines and other knowledge. This is the approach of transdisciplinarity, that is, interdisciplinarity in a strong sense, as distinct from multidisciplinarity, understood as interdisciplinarity in a weak sense. The latter certainly promotes a better understanding of the object of study by considering it from multiple points of view, which nevertheless remain complementary and separate. Instead, transdisciplinarity should be thought of “as the placement and fermentation of all knowledge within the space of Light and Life offered by the Wisdom that emanates from God’s Revelation” (Apostolic Constitution Veritatis gaudium, Proem, 4c). Hence the arduous task for theology to be able to make use of new categories elaborated by other knowledges, in order to penetrate and communicate the truths of faith and transmit the teaching of Jesus in today’s languages, with originality and critical awareness.
6. Dialogue with other knowledge evidently presupposes dialogue within the ecclesial community and an awareness of the essential synodal and communal dimension of doing theology: the theologian cannot but live fraternity and communion in the first person, at the service of evangelization and in order to reach the hearts of all. As I said to theologians in the Address to the Members of the International Theological Commission, November 24, 2022: “Ecclesial synodality therefore commits theologians to do theology in a synodal form, promoting among themselves the capacity to listen, dialogue, discern and integrate the multiplicity and variety of instances and inputs.” It is therefore important that there are places, including institutional ones, in which to live and experience theological collegiality and fraternity.
7. Finally, the necessary attention to the scientific status of theology should not obscure its sapiential dimension, as already clearly stated by St. Thomas Aquinas (cf. Summa theologiae I, q. 1, a. 6). Therefore, Blessed Antonio Rosmini considered theology a sublime expression of “intellectual charity,” while calling for the critical reason of all knowledge to be oriented to the Idea of Wisdom. Now the Idea of Wisdom inwardly holds Truth and Charity together in a “solid circle,” so that it is impossible to know truth without practicing charity: “because the one is in the other and neither of the two is found outside the other. Hence he who has this Truth has Charity with it that fulfills it, and he who has this Charity has Truth fulfilled” (cf. Of the Author’s Studies, nn.100-111). Scientific reason must expand its boundaries in the direction of wisdom, lest it dehumanize and impoverish itself. By this route, theology can contribute to the current debate of “rethinking thinking,” showing itself to be a true critical knowledge insofar as it is sapiential knowledge, not abstract and ideological, but spiritual, elaborated on its knees, pregnant with adoration and prayer; a transcendent knowledge and, at the same time, attentive to the voice of the people, thus “popular” theology, mercifully addressed to the open wounds of humanity and creation and within the folds of human history, to which it prophesies the hope of ultimate fulfillment.
8. It is a matter of the pastoral “stamp” that theology as a whole, and not only in one of its particular spheres, must assume: without opposing theory and practice, theological reflection is urged to develop with an inductive method, which starts from the different contexts and concrete situations in which peoples are inserted, allowing itself to be seriously challenged by reality, in order to become discernment of the “signs of the times” in the proclamation of the salvific event of the God-agape, communicated in Jesus Christ. Therefore, it is necessary that the knowledge of people’s common sense, which is in fact a theological place in which so many images of God dwell, often not corresponding to the Christian face of God, only and always love, be privileged first of all. Theology is at the service of the Church’s evangelization and transmission of faith, so that faith becomes culture, that is, the wise ethos of God’s people, a proposal of human and humanizing beauty for all.
9. Faced with this renewed mission of theology, the Pontifical Academy of Theology is called to develop, in its constant attention to the scientific nature of theological reflection, transdisciplinary dialogue with other scientific, philosophical, humanistic and artistic knowledge, with believers and non-believers, with men and women of different Christian denominations and different religions. This will be able to happen by creating an academic community of shared faith and study that weaves a network of relationships with other formative, educational and cultural institutions and is able to penetrate, with originality and a spirit of imagination, into the existential places of the elaboration of knowledge, professions and Christian communities.
10. Thanks to the new Statutes, the Pontifical Academy of Theology will thus be able more easily to pursue the goals that the present time requires. Accepting favorably the vows that have been addressed to me to approve these new norms, and indulging them, I desire that this egregious seat of study may grow in quality, and therefore I approve, by virtue of this Apostolic Letter, and in perpetuity, the Statutes of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, legitimately drawn up and newly revised, and I confer upon them the force of Apostolic approval.
All that I have decreed in this Apostolic Letter motu proprio given, I order to have stable and lasting force, notwithstanding anything to the contrary.
Given in Rome, at Saint Peter’s, on the 1st day of November in the year 2023, Solemnity of All Saints, the eleventh of the Pontificate.
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Hegel, Smith and Marx lacked quantitative international data for analysis hence also qualitative data. Both these data were supplied by economist/statistician, Colin Clark, awarded a papal medal by Pope St Paul V1 for this keeping, as in his person as consenting to be joined in uncertainty of his belief in a consecrated male female marriage keeping from 1946 in uncertainty of his belief their inseparability confirmed in HV, 1968, 12 after his exercise of an absolute power of his simultaneous authorisations of applications of his quantitative finding in 1964 by/of the UNO Food and Agriculture Organisation and the Vatican Council 2 Pope St Paul V1’s “Commission on Population” when simultaneously employed by both.
Qualitative equality was added by his son from 1991 explaining the multiplier in economics exercising an absolute power of simultaneous authorisations of quantitative ensuring and qualitative insuring as reference point for Pope Francis not insisting on “higher vocation” since St Paul’s “opinion” ‘not given by God’ at 1Cor7:25-34 in his General Audience on 15 March 2023 consistent with his data analysis in an exercise of an absolute power of his simultaneous authorisations in his own cases c. 17 June 2021 of:
1. his own ensuring (alleged embezzlement by Cardinal Angelo Becciu + nine Vatican state citizens/employees),
2. his own insuring (Italian state Parliament “Zan” anti-homophobia bill as an unacceptable risk of fraud on his identity as a consecrated celibate married by vows to man in Christ) .
This confirmed the John 6 ‘present moment’ Real Presence multiplier and was “a fulfilment” Elizabeth is quoted believed there would be by Mary at Lk 1:45 that withstood regression in “humanisation” warned against at the UNO by Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia as President of Pope Francis’ Council for the Family at the UNO on 15 May 2013, the UNO “The International Day of the Family”.
In such a way was “withstood … Extreme tensions … only to be expected from renewal” (Bishop Paul Cordes, “Charisms and new evangelisation”, in German 1991, English translation, St Paul, 1992, p.150) caused by occult as hidden, incest connected as substitute mate, grooming by diseased ‘familyist’ family members of their psychologically and or emotionally vulnerable family members in their discerning their vocation with a non-economic status inducement of this false “higher vocation” for economic advantage of their families by tax-exemption embezzlements and lower insurance cost by fraud.
Mr. Clark, please RE-read YOUR paragraph below:
“ . . In such a way was “withstood … Extreme tensions …
only to be expected from renewal” (Bishop Paul Cordes,
“Charisms and new evangelisation”, in German 1991,
English translation, St Paul, 1992, p.150) caused by
occult as hidden, incest connected as substitute mate,
grooming by diseased ‘familyist’ family members of
their psychologically and or emotionally vulnerable
family members in their discerning their vocation
with a non-economic status inducement of this false
“higher vocation” for economic advantage of their
families by tax-exemption embezzlements and lower
insurance cost by fraud.”
Apologies, but that kind of communication is NOT
for the lowly BA-level reader; the above would be
easier to comprehend if written in German.
Would you kindly have the courtesy to write/ speak
IN PLAIN, STRAIGHT-FORWARD, ORDINARY,
ENLISH ?
Would be much appreciated.
Pairie Grandpa, Bob, BA philosophy/ English/ 1969/
Gonzaga Univ., Spokane, Wash. , USA.
bsontrop@gmail.com
Airdrie, Alberta, C a n a d a
Bob, Cardinal Angelo Becciu’s and five others’ convictions and sentencing by Pope Francis’ criminal court reported yesterday illustrate what you quote of me.
Only one consenting in uncertainty of their belief to be joined in a consecrated marriage either celibate or male female on the reference point of Mary joined in both as inseparable and qualitatively equal could have the objective social confirmation by Mary of their judgement on their own conceptions and their own capabilities to in uncertainty believe without understanding what you quote I wrote since the deception is occult as hidden and incest connected as substitute mate.
From Oliver Clark,
(a) catechist in my family member identity-role: in my anglo-catholic role religious educator as my right on Pope St John Paul 2’s Council for the Laity’s written direction, dated 28 September 1994, of roman catholic helper of the family role groups’ procreation gift role religion so as “to sustain what you consider to be your rights” (this letter of direction of me from the Vice President of the PCL, Bishop Paul Cordes+,
(b) joined in successive consecrated marriages. male female from 1991 then celibate from the death of my wife on All Saints Day 1/11/17, on this reference point of Mary,
Brisbane, Australia, oliver_clark5@telstra.com
Re. Francis’ conclusion: ” . . I ORDER [ this motu proprio ]
to have stable and lasting FORCE” . . ain’t the way a Vicar of
Christ talks. But Brrrgoglio has rejected the role of Vicar,
and, in so doing, has set his Péronist Latin American
Dictator Self along side and equal to Christ.
Go on home, you insufferable imposter ! You’re more
than SENSUS FIDELIUM baptized flesh and blood
Cathoolic can stand.
They’re afraid of Y O U ? . . sittin’ in the “Chair” of
St. Marta’s ?? I’ll
remember to “fear fear itself” before I fear Y O U
Jorge! We’re at war.
Fear ?? . . joyful hastening to the Cross instead,
Our Lord’s Cross itself this time.
And what might that be? . . oh, merely “My God!
My God! Why have You forsaken me !??” You,
Dictator Bergoglio, will have left an idol, a false
christ and a false “people of God”, as your legacy,
. . fittingly entombed in your sepulchre at Santa
Maria Maggiore.
Bob, “stable and lasting force” required to “withstood … [e]xtreme tensions … only to be expected from renewal … [caused by] man’s judgement on his own capabilities and his own conceptions remain[ing] unstable and mutable” (Cordes, Bishop Paul, Vice President of Pope St John Paul 11’s Council for the Laity, book: “Charisms and new evangelisation”, 1991 edition in German, English translation, St Paul, 1992, p.150).
Oliver Clark
I think I “get it”. Am lacking in overwhelming historical
details [ persons; decisions made etc. ]. Thanks for
essential “fill-in”. It’s kind of a verbalized short-hand
which you use . . PhD-level explaining, whereas my
remarks are modelled in 1940s American human-
interest reporting.
Keeping by definition is in uncertainty, otherwise it is knowing.
Keeping unity means keeping inseparability and qualitative equality of thinking “mind” {reason) and having faith “heart” as “one” (NIV Acts 4:32) as in uncertainty belief.
Referring to “faith” as John Brown does at c.29.30: “faith informing how I read Genesis” without referring to its inseparability and qualitative equality with thinking suggests psychological and or emotional vulnerability; that is, dependence illness.
St Ignatius of Loyola, a religious, at n. 356 of his “Spiritual Exercises” (Louis J Puhl, Loyola University Press, 1951) has “matrimony ought not be praised as much as any of these … religious life, virginity and continency”.
St Thomas Aquinas, a C13th AD religious, has faith and reason inseparable but not qualitatively equal and did not know of the active part of the female in conception that awaited microscopy from the C19th AD thus asserting procreation as the purpose of marriage and not the keeping in uncertainty of belief of the inseparability and qualitative equality of union and procreation.
Even Pope Francis, a religious, in his General; Audience on 15 March 2023 refers to “higher vocation” in referring to consecrated celibate marriage vowed to man in Christ compared to consecrated male female marriage vowed to God.
It is clear that since St Paul giving his “opinion” (‘not given by God’) at 1Cor7:25-35 of this higher vocation of consecrated celibate marriage that diseased ‘familyist’ family members have groomed psychologically and or emotionally vulnerable family members to take vows as helpers of families as consecrated celibates married by vows to man in Christ in roles as helpers of families with this relatively non-economic false inducement of their “higher vocation” for economic advantage of families of these groomers by tax-exemption embezzlements and lower insurance cost by fraud.
This groomed occult as hidden, incest connected sexual abuse has been endemic in the roman catholic church helper of families’ role group since St Paul.
Inductive role thinking and deductive identity having faith are advantageously combined in valid consecrated marriage, either celibate vowed to man in Christ or male female vowed to God, on the reference point of Mary keeping in uncertainty of her belief (Lk 1:29-45; Mt 1:24) their inseparability and qualitative equality.
This completes Aquinas holding inseparability of reason and faith by adding qualitatively equal only proved by identification by microscopy in the C19-20th AD of the active part of the female in conception presumed passive by Aquinas in the C13th AD and by Malthus in his book: “Principles of Population”, 1798.
Oliver Clark, son of Colin Clark, economist and statistician, awarded a papal medal by Pope St Paul V1 for his contribution to: “Two inseparable aspects: union and procreation” in marriage, either celibate or male female, in Humanae Vitae, 1968, 12 with ‘qualitatively equal’ added by Pope Francis on 17 June 2021 in his inductive ensuring and deductive insuring in his consecrated celibate marriage; Catechist, joined in consecrated marriages, male female from 25 February 1991 until the death of my wife, Jane Clark, nee Churchill, relative of Winston Churchill, on 1 November 2017, All Saints’ Feast Day, the feast day of the issue of Ad Theologiam Promovedam, motu proprio apostolic letter of Pope Francis, 1 November 2023, and then celibate to the present, Brisbane, Australia: oliver_clark5@telstra.com
Paragraph 9 is the critical point: 9. Faced with this renewed mission of theology, the Pontifical Academy of Theology is called to develop, in its constant attention to the scientific nature of theological reflection, transdisciplinary dialogue with other scientific, philosophical, humanistic and artistic knowledge, with believers and non-believers, with men and women of different Christian denominations and different religions. This will be able to happen by creating an academic community of shared faith and study that weaves a network of relationships with other formative, educational and cultural institutions and is able to penetrate, with originality and a spirit of imagination, into the existential places of the elaboration of knowledge, professions and Christian communities. Victor Clore, PhD
“scientific” and “faith and study” and “existential places” refers to Pope Francis in his ensuring in his Cardinal Becciu plus nine Vatican state citizens/employees alleged embezzlement of his procreation role gift charity donations case and his insuring in the “Zan” anti-homophobia bill unacceptable risk of fraud on his identity as a consecrated celibate married by vows to man in Christ case by his simultaneous authorisations on 17 June 2021 de facto completing Humanae Vitae, 1968,12 adding ‘qualitatively equal’ to marriage has “Two inseparable aspects: union and procreation”. It is consecrated marriage, celibate vowed to man in Christ or male female vowed to God with either on the reference point of Mary’s consecrated marriages, celibate at Lk 1:38: “let it be to me”, and male female at Mt 1:24:”Joseph … took his wife”, as qualitatively equal as well as inseparable, that exercises an absolute power of simultaneous authorisations of its applications of its role existence ensuring its procreation role gift and its identity essence insuring its need of union of its identity.
Oliver Clark, anglo-catholic catechist of roman catholic religion joined in immediately successive consecrated marriages, male female till death of my wife on 1 Nov 2017 then celibate. oliver_clark5@telstra.com
Good Morning, What caught my eye is this document is instructing theologians to use the “inductive method” for finding the truth.
8. It is a matter of the pastoral “stamp” that theology as a whole, and not only in one of its particular spheres, must assume: without opposing theory and practice, theological reflection is urged to develop with an inductive method, which starts from the different contexts and concrete situations in which peoples are inserted, allowing itself to be seriously challenged by reality, in order to become discernment of the “signs of the times” in the proclamation of the salvific event of the God-agape, communicated in Jesus Christ.
See the following: https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/7urXRV. The inductive method is inverted from the Thomistic deductive method. (Inversion is satanic) I think it is at the base level a form of the logical fallacy of “begging the question.”
Since all Truth is in God, and God (the Holy Spirit) will lead us to all truth. It follows that when confronted with a question or new idea we should start from Scripture, Divine Law and natural law. Investigate the fathers and tradition, and when we encounter a discontinuity or novelty (referring to St Vincent of Larens) then the novelty should be discarded as either heresy or at least erroneous.
The inductive method is flawed, condemned by popes and is therefore incapable of finding truth.
My two cents.
Joe
The inductive and deductive methods are inseparable and qualitatively equal the keeping of which is in uncertainty belief.
Oliver Clark, catechist, consenting in uncertainty of my belief to be joined in successive consecrated marriages, male female vowed to God from 1991 to 1 Nov. 2017 on death of my wife, then celibate vowed to man in Christ.
Thanks, Joe, for providing the Vennari article. [ Please
don’t believe your surname, Falter; you’re not faltering
in this issue! ]
Venari quotes OT, 1965, 16 that is relevant to OT, 10: “Students ought rightly to acknowledge the duties and dignity of Christian matrimony, which is a sign of the love between Christ and the Church. Let them recognize, however, the surpassing excellence of virginity consecrated to Christ, so that with a maturely deliberate and generous choice they may consecrate themselves to the Lord by a complete gift of body and soul.”
Consecrated male female marriage vowed to God is inseparable and qualitatively equal with consecrated celibate marriage vowed to man in Christ. This is the “paradigm shift” (Pope Francis) applied by Pope Francis on 17 June 2021 in his subjective inductive ensuring and deductive objective insuring simultaneously authorised by him in his consecrated celibate marriage vowed to man in Christ in his own cases of his role with the Vatican state ten citizens/employees, including Cardinal Angelo Becciu, and of his identity with the Italian Parliament “Zan” anti-homophobia bill.
My post 12/16/2023 at 10:30
“scientific” and “faith and study” and “existential places” refers to Pope Francis in his ensuring in his Cardinal Becciu plus nine Vatican state citizens/employees alleged embezzlement of his procreation role gift charity donations case and his insuring in the “Zan” anti-homophobia bill unacceptable risk of fraud on his identity as a consecrated celibate married by vows to man in Christ case by his simultaneous authorisations on 17 June 2021 de facto completing Humanae Vitae, 1968,12 adding ‘qualitatively equal’ to marriage has “Two inseparable aspects: union and procreation”. It is consecrated marriage, celibate vowed to man in Christ or male female vowed to God with either on the reference point of Mary’s consecrated marriages, celibate at Lk 1:38: “let it be to me”, and male female at Mt 1:24:”Joseph … took his wife”, as qualitatively equal as well as inseparable, that exercises an absolute power of simultaneous authorisations of its applications of its role existence ensuring its procreation role gift and its identity essence insuring its need of union of its identity.
Oliver Clark, anglo-catholic catechist of roman catholic religion joined in immediately successive consecrated marriages, male female till death of my wife on 1 Nov 2017 then celibate. oliver_clark5@telstra.com
Anthony, Francis can keep his text; I think he’s
cleverly weeding out us dummies so’s the
intellectual elite can rise to the top . . and do
his bidding . . and send us packing.
Rafael did the correct Ecclesiastical “take” on
that letter. Thank you for that !
Most Loved Anthony ,
The document you provide is a marvel of “soliloquy” ; many fancy words of scholarly vocabulary used to elaborate upon a circular “apologetic” as might support an agenda of modernism. When broken down , in context of cultural social scientific “fields” (economics , social , and anthropological), it is HEGALIAN .
The argumentation introduces the thesis – anti-thesis mode of “theological evolution”. It presents that the understanding of doctrinal realities should be subject to the novel paradigm of critical historical thinking ( CRT ). In short , it is atheistic, Marxist, and transported into and superimposed upon divinely revealed theology ( there is no God in academic economics , social science , or anthropology) . Indeed , anthropology, views all “religious” ideation as mythical expressions of men’s minds as they live out their “progression” into a future that does not exist ( anthropology has no prediction on where Man’s journey is headed – it’s just going somewhere). Hegel also had no idea where man was “going”
( in his construct there is no heaven or hell ) . Only in economics is a hint is Spirit acknowledged. Adam Smith accurately points out that the “force” behind economic relationships is the INVISIBLE HAND. Smith, writing before
Marx, likely considered the mystical of economic activity as consequent to the action of The Holy Spirit upon men’s minds and heart . Marx , by distinction , an atheist ( forerunner of LIBERATION Theology ) , conforms his theories to the Hegelian dialectic as both consciously and unconsciously embrace the “spirit of god “ ( fallen angels ) .
That’s my take .
Blessings , Raphael ( aka Dr.Scott )