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According to Karl Rahner's thesis that Vatican II constituted the begi nning of a World Church, a qualitative leap would have taken place, by leaving behind a historical era in which the Church has exported its European cultural model of Christianity. This thesis provides a key to interpret the processes of ecclesial reform under development with the "Francis case". The article discusses three key conciliar issues that would reveal the transition from a Western Church to a World Church. The liturgical "reform of the reform" has come to an end. In the case of ecclesiology, the category God's people, has "returned". The reception of Gaudium et Spes--more coherent with the will of the Council Fathers--has reached the Church of Rome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The notification by the Congregation of Faith to the christological works of the Jesuit theologian Jon Sobrino starts with a calling to attention about the methodological principles. Since what seems to be under suspicion is the Latin American method and the corresponding hermeneutical method, this paper searches the problem from its roots in the Instruction on some aspects of the Liberation Theology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]