Vision

Develop pastoral processes around territorial and/or thematic networks that contribute to integral conversion and promote and position the papal Magisterium and the Latin American and Caribbean episcopate and develop its corresponding pastoral methodology.

Mission

Develop innovative and relevant guidelines, foster processes, and offer pastoral services so that the Church can more effectively live out its missionary work in proclaiming the Kingdom of God, following Christ, and integral conversion.

Identity

Achieve positioning the proposals of the Church in Latin America and the Caribbean on the agenda of governments and civil organizations for them to recognize the moral authority of the papal Magisterium and the Latin American and Caribbean episcopate and has influenced an explicit response to the most urgent social problems.

Strengthen the institutions of the Church that work for the most vulnerable.

Strengthen the positioning of the Social Doctrine of the Church in society in the political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, educational, and spiritual spheres.

Facilitate the transition from a conservation pastoral to a pastoral of missionary pathways for a synodal Church in mission

Characteristics of its action

Insist on animating processes and not events, privileging listening and accompaniment; outlining concrete, feasible, and relevant lines of action; offering tools for animation and pastoral innovation; creating a methodology on the processual in pastoral.

Multiscalar: Local (diocese), National (Episcopal Conference), Regional (Latin America and the Caribbean), and International (Holy See).

Multidimensional, according to the proposal of the pastoral category of Integral Ecology presented in Laudato Sí, in: the political, the economic, the social, the cultural, the environmental, the educational, and the spiritual.

Multisectoral: involving the whole People of God, in a synodal key and with a focus on a Comprehensive Pastoral.

Concreteness: Territories or themes of special urgency to which the Church wants to respond.

Historical reflection – concrete experience and all its symbolic capital.

Integrating all of Latin America and the Caribbean. Understanding and responding to the different realities of the regions.

Structure

The Center for Programs and Networks of Pastoral Action has defined two priority lines to serve and accompany the mission of CELAM as a whole, the episcopal conferences, and the Church on the continent: integral human development and integral ecology; and the synodal and outgoing Church. This Pastoral Center will work very closely and coordinately with the Dicasteries of the Holy See, SELACC, and CLAR.