Il nostro tempo «non ammette una ordinaria amministrazione». L’arcivescovo Montini e i fermenti della Chiesa milanese

The essay analizes the pastoral action of Giovanni Battista Montini, archbishop of Milan, during the transformation of the city and the diocese that challenged the cornerstones of the pastoral tradition of Milan: parishes, oratories and associations of Catholic Action. From the analysis of the records conserved from the secretariat of the archbishop is possible to discover the way that Montini dealt with new ecclesial experiences and groups that involved a growing number of laymen and priests. These groups had required an accurate evaluation from who had the administration of the diocese because their characteristics put them out of the ordinary pastoral action. The purpose of the paper is to show the approach of the Archbishop to the whole overview of the extra-parish experiences of aggregation that flourished in the Ambrosian diocese, not connected with the Catholic Action. Among these there were spiritual families, associations of lay and clergymen, first attempts of «new communities» and ecclesiastical movements in fieri, as the Focolare movement and Gioventù Studentesca of father Luigi Giussani, which first developments correspond with the years of the Montini’s episcopate.