THE (UN) REALISED CONCILIAR THEOLOGICAL-PASTORAL THEMES IN THE CROATIAN CHURCH PASTORAL PRACTICE AND CONCILIAR RENEWAL TODAY

The fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council is a privileged opportunity for the whole Church to reflect and review the course of the Conciliar renewal up until now. For our home Church this opportunity has to be used as an additional help in a further reflection on those theological-pastoral themes which were strongly affirmed at the Council, but which have not received an adequate attention and were, therefore, somewhat neglected in the pastoral practice up until now. In this article, the author tries to emphasise the importance of these themes, which would, hopefully, lead to their affirmation and implementation. In that effort, he selected ten themes that are of utmost importance for a developed pastoral practice, considered in the light of the Conciliar ecclesiology and pastoral guidelines. The author is aware that the list of themes could be substantially longer, but he chose to limit himself to these ten themes in order to stay within the bounds of this article. As already stated, the selected themes are somewhat affirmed in our pastoral practice, but not always in an adequate way. Therefore, the author utilises a method of theological-pastoral discernment, in order to identify those elements of the selected themes which need to receive more pastoral attention.