Original scientific paper
Mons. Frane Franić Interventions and Contribution in Preparation of II Vatican Council Dogmatic Constitutions LG and DV
Dušan Moro
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split
Abstract
The work treats the interventions of the Split-Makarska
archbishop Mons. Frane Franić (1912-2007) at the Second Vatican
Council, especially in preparation of two Constitutions: Lumen
Gentium and Dei Verbum.
In the first part three essential terms and contributions to
the debate De Ecclesia are analysed. It is his insisting on the term
Ecclesia militans, along with other pictures about the Church,
prompted by the actual state of some Christian Churches behind
the “Iron Curtain”, under the communist regimes, after the Second
World War.
The second aspect is his contribution to the debate on
sacramentality of Episcopal order, where he, from the beginning, even interceded for defining that centuries-old problem, then to
hold a view, in the role of a relator of so called “minority”, that it
was not wise to define it!
The third term and issues are related to the collegiality of
Bishops College in relation to the Bishop of Rome. Although
he recognizes and gives supremacy to the Bishops College, he
strongly emphasizes the primacy of the Bishop of Rome and puts
it all together under the syntagm “cum Petro et sub Petro”, and he
names it the “integral primacy”.
The second part of the article analyzes two of his interventions
on the origin of divine Revelation, i.e. on Tradition and the Scripture.
His attitude is interesting, because he talks about Revelation as
about two brooklets (duo rivuli), thus staying halfway, from the
very Draft, to the final formulations of the Council in DV.
The emphasis is on the very interventions of Frane Franić,
who confronts the contribution of other relators and the final text
in concluding debates.
Using that methodology, one can more clearly see the results
and come to conclusions. And that is: Frane Franić is one of the
important protagonists in the debates about 3 chapters of LG and
DV, and in this way he contributed to a clearer and more complete
expression of the Council itself on the essential theological issues.
Keywords
Frane Franić; Pope’s primacy; episcopacy; Bishops College; Holy Scripture; Tradition; Orthodoxy; ecumenism; restoration of Church
Hrčak ID:
38884
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Publication date:
30.6.2009.
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