Pastoral trip
A pastoral trip is the trip of the Pope , a bishop , or a religious superior to a state or an area, which mainly serves the pastoral as well as the strengthening of the local church leadership or pastor . In art, the term is also a synonym for a "country party".
For bishops and abbots , the pastoral journey is similar to the so-called visitation . In contrast, the purpose of the trip for preachers (the latter especially from free churches ) is primarily pastoral care.
The interest and responsibility of the Pope and Bishops for the status and the aspired vitality of a regional church is based on the so-called pastoral service , which Jesus defined with the parable of the Good Shepherd as a model for the later work of the apostles .
In contrast to a simple service, pastoral care is also associated with the exercise of church authority , which, depending on the local state of the church, can also be expressed in pastoral trips - in papal trips, for example, through sufficient time to talk to the bishops of the country visited .
Papal pastoral trips
Pope Paul VI established the pastoral journey during Vatican II in the form of the ambassador of the council as a new instrument of church leadership.
- Foreign trips of Pope John Paul II
- Pope visit to Germany in 2006 and 2011
- Pope visits to Austria (most recently 2007)
- Papal visits to Switzerland (most recently 2004)
Individual evidence
- ^ Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione : Pastoral Journey. ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Getty Museum).
- ^ Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione : A pastoral journey. A drawing in paint. ( Memento of the original from April 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (British Museum).
- ↑ Stefan Nacke: The Church of the World Society: The Second Vatican Council and the globalization of Catholicism. VS Verlag, 2010, ISBN 9783531173399 , page 214.
Web links
- Ross Kingham: Pastoral Journey (English)