FUTURE KEYS TO A GLOBAL CHURCH TODAY: CHALLENGES FOR THE MISSION AND TEACHING OF THE CHURCH

The first part of this text gives some generalities on globalization. It emphasizes one of the ecclesiological issues of the transition from a European Church to a world Church: the consolidation of catholicity. The author illustrates this by developing some features of the articulation of unity with diversity. The question of the catholicity of the Church does not arise in the abstract but requires matching structures. This is the subject of the last part of the text. With the challenge being to renew the question of the teaching office of episcopal conferences, the author evokes the reform of the configuration of the Latin Catholic Church and opts for the rediscovery of the model of the communio ecclesiarum and the articulation from episcopal collegiality to the synodality of the churches.