Obcojęzyczne duszpasterstwo migrantów - najważniejsze dokumenty Kościoła katolickiego
Foreign language pastoral care of migrants – the most important documents of the Catholic Church

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the most important documents of the Catholic Church on the foreign-language pastoral care of migrants. The phenomenon of migration itself has existed since the beginning of mankind, and we find many references to it in both the Old and New Testament. From the very beginning, the Church has seen in migrants the face of Christ Himself, and hence has provided them with special care over the centuries. Interestingly, the first document to deal comprehensively with the pastoral care of migrants was created only in 1952, followed by others in 1969 and 2004. Their analysis unequivocally confirms the right of migrants to special pastoral care in their mother tongue. Among other things, one can clearly see: consecutive evolution of these documents towards a shift of responsibility for this pastoral care to the level of the local churches, an increasing number of proposed structural solutions and a deepening of cooperation between churches of origin and churches receiving immigrants.

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