De la catequesis escolar a la enseñanza religiosa en la escuela y la catequesis de la comunidad cristiana

Abstract

The article aims to present the step that the Spanish Church takes, in a very short space of time, from a conception of catechesis understood as “school catechesis” to a new reality: “religious teaching in school” and “community catechesis “ The Spanish Church that had remained outside the “catechetical renewal movement” operated in the surroundings of the Second Vatican Council, had to adapt quickly under pressure from two events: ecclesial and political. Ecclesial: the renewal set in motion by the Council and concretized in the Synods of 1974 and 1977 and the apostolic Exhortations that emanated from them. Political: the passage of a political form of dictatorship that favored in some aspects the teaching to the Church, to a regime of democracy where the Church began to be questioned right in that place that had been its best area of catechesis: the school.