Otázka pred odpoveďou: mediácia polarizácie v LGBTQ+ témach
The Question Before the Answer: Mediating Polarization in LGBTQ+ Issues

Summary/Abstract: The study examines LGBTQ+ issues as a site in which polarization becomes particularly visible in the Slovak Catholic context. Its central claim is that the pastoral and theological quality of a response depends in part on how the preceding question is framed. The article develops a theology of listening into a pastoral hermeneutics of the question: an approach that begins with the dignity, faith, experience and vulnerability of concrete persons and proceeds toward responsible ecclesial discernment. It draws on Slovak empirical data, selected magisterial and synodal documents, pastoral voices, and reflections on artificial intelligence as a digital mirror of the assumptions embedded in questions. The study distinguishes personal dignity, doctrine, pastoral practice, language, fear and experiences of exclusion, and proposes mediation as a way of sustaining disagreement without turning difference into hostility. Its aim is not to replace truth with compromise, but to create conditions in wh

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