A catolicidade da igreja à luz da Evangelli Gaudium e os desafios da sociedade plural

Abstract

The present Work: The Catholicity of the Church in the Light of Evangelii Gaudium and the Challenges of the Plural Society aims to approach the relevance of the positive relationship of the Church, understood from its catholicity, with the increasingly diversity in the society, taking into account the Contributions of the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium by Pope Francis. Today's diversity in the society is increasingly bringing humanity to pluralism, understood as a new way of reading, interpreting and living in this new reality. The challenges to the Christian faith are innumerable. However, three challenges stand out: cultural, religious and social. In face of them, the Church, through the category of Catholicity, understood as totality, which grounds its identity and universality, intends to be a sign of communion and hope. In front of cultural pluralism and globalization, Christian faith must recognize its catholicity based on religious identity, highlighting what is essential and what is formal in its identity. That allows being open to a dialogue with cultures. In front of religious and social pluralism, the Church, in the exercise of its mission, must open itself to dialogue and hospitality with the Christian Churches, with the various religions, in a perspective of an "outgoing" Church, going to the existential peripheries, leading to the Joy of the Gospel to all people.