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Katarzyna Leszczyńska, Płeć w instytucje uwikłana. Reprodukowanie wzorców kobiecości i męskości przez świeckie kobiety i świeckich mężczyzn w organizacjach administracyjno-ewangelizacyjnych Kościoła Rzymskokatolickiego w Polsce
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In this study I started from the assumption that every human being has an existential sense which, throughout his life, is possible to pervert or even lose him. The postmodern era has become incompatible with a noble, transcendent sense of actual man. In this state of confusion, the human person needs more than ever the orientatio, that is, a clear path towards something that does not limit it to materialism and consumerism. One of the factors that positively influence the existential meaning of man is commitment (toward oneself, toward others and toward God). The Christian life has permanently demonstrated that the sense par excellence of man is the eternal life to which it can be directed with the help of a feeling of the ephemeral (world) and immortal (soul). With the loss of the soul balance, man approaches the existential emptiness. The impatient time, the overabundant activities, the sensory over stimulation, the superficiality of the relationships, predispose him to the drama of meaninglessness. Therefore, in this study we will emphasize the current human situation and possible resolutions regarding its inner recalibration. Solutions such as contemplative life, self-discovery through meditation, self-awareness through awareness of its psycho-spiritual contents, disillusionment with the world’s offerings, communion with God through prayer, are as many chances of reunion with oneself and with the Source of life, from which the personal meaning of existence certainly emerges.
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In 1903, during the treatment course in Tashkent, Rev. Juozas Sabas (1868–1926) from Seinai Diocese wrote review about the catholic life in Middle Asia “Turkiestan – Polacy i Litwini w Taszkiencie“ (“Turkestan – Poles and Lithuanians in Tashkent”). It is a rare narrative source about Catholic Church in this region. This review by Rev. J. Sabas was published in Polish press in 1903. Here it is being published with added critical scientific notation and a wide article based on the latest historical research of Tashkent parish. This valuable source is an aid to learn more about the work and life of Catholics and their pastors in this region.
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The sacramental priesthood is a special participation in the mission of Christ. Ordained priests - bishops and priests, serve in the Church in persona Christi Capitis. This particular mission has a threefold character: prophetic, priestly and royal. The service of the sacramental priesthood is also expressed in acting in persona Ecclesiae. In fulfilling their mission, priests depend on Christ, the Church and their own bishop, and the place of their ordinary ministry is the particular Church and the parishes that make it up. This article outlines the essence of priesthood at the priesthood level and the relational nature of priesthood ministry to Christ, the Church and the diocesan bishop.
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W jednym ze swoich opracowań eklezjologicznych kard. Ratzinger podzielił się następującą refleksją: „Kościół nie jest aparatem; nie jest zwykłą instytucją; nie jest też wyłącznie jedną ze zwykłych formacji socjologicznych – jest Osobą. Jest Kobietą. Jest Matką. Jest Istotą żyjącą. Maryjne pojmowanie Kościoła stanowi najsilniejszy i najbardziej zdecydowany kontrast w stosunku do czysto organizacyjnej czy biurokratycznej koncepcji Kościoła. Nie możemy tworzyć Kościoła, musimy być Kościołem. Jesteśmy Kościołem, a Kościół jest w nas jedynie w mierze, w jakiej wiara, wykraczająca poza czyny, kształtuje nasz byt”.
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Review of: O. Regis Norbert Barwig - Bp Andrzej F. Dziuba. Humanizująca funkcja kultury. Z nauczania kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego Prymasa Polski. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego. Warszawa 2013, ss. 293. Bp Andrzej F. Dziuba - Ks. Antoni Balcerzak, Spotkanie z Jezusem na Drodze Krzyżowej. Rozmyślania ewangeliczne, Kunke Poligrafia Sp. z oo, Inowrocław 2018, ss. 215. Bp Andrzej F. Dziuba - Red. Henryk P. Błaszczyk, Robert Wiraszka. Modlitewnik Zakonu Maltańskiego. Wydawnictwo Diecezji Radomskiej AVE. Radom 2017, ss. 704. Bp Andrzej F. Dziuba - Claudio Ferlan. I Gesuiti. Societa editrice il Mulino. Bologna 2015, ss. 202. Bp Andrzej F. Dziuba - Krzysztof Nykiel, Paolo Carlotti (a cura di) in collaborazione con Sabatino Majorano, Agostino Montan, Manlio Sodi, Sofia Tavella. La formazione morale della persona nel sacramento della Riconciliazione. Presentazione di S. E. Mons. Giovanni Tonucci. Delegato Pontificio per il Santuario Lauretano. IF Press srl. Roma 2015, ss. 164. Ks. Wojciech Kućko - Michał Marian Grzybowski, Duchowni katoliccy w pracach Towarzystwa Naukowego Płockiego 1820-2020, P.P.-H. „Drukarnia” Sp. z o.o. Sierpc, Płock 2019, ss. 104. Joseph G. M. Le Sanche - Bp Andrzej F. Dziuba, Matka Boża z Damaszku, Wydawnictwo Sióstr Loretanek, Warszawa 2018, ss. 109.
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With technological advancement, the Internet has become a useful tool in various research tasks, not only in humanities and social studies but also religious studies. Therefore, the main purpose of this article is to present online research as a new method of gathering empirical data, which deserves to be recognised by Polish catechists just like the traditional research methods. A point of departure in online research is the paradigm of pastoral and theological analysis developed at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. This paradigm of research ensures both efficiency and reliability of research outcomes; it allows to properly study and assess the state of affairs within a given field of study as well as to draw conclusions relevant to practical catechetics pertaining to its improvement. It requires the application of research tools typical of quantitative and qualitative research carried out in social studies. Predominantly, such tools involve questionnaire surveys distributed via email or made available on websites. Analyses of blogs, chats, and discussion forums are also important. All of these social media should be reliable and credible.
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In the article is described aspectual hagiology as the proposal of new discipline descending from the classical hagiology. The thesis is developed in five points: the Warmian description of hagiology research, the distinction of notions – the hagiology classical and aspectual; the hagiology specialization in ‘the aspect’ (here is sketch of the systematization of the aspectual hagiology in comparison with the classical one: the object, sources, the aim of research, fundamental research), the multidisciplinarity and the transdisciplinarity of the aspectual hagiology and the innovativeness of its research. A subject of study of the classical hagiology is the sainthood as the matter investigated in sources revealed and in the religious ethos of candidates for the altars. The subject of study of the aspectual hagiology includes some elements the sacrum in the culture and belonging to sources of disciplines outside the field of theological researches. Sacrum in culture should be examined by various specialist methods, therefore research on this subject is interdisciplinary. The correlation of interdisciplinary specialist research calls for the creation of two research teams: transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary. Concentration on the hagiological subject as common to different theological and non-theological disciplines leads to the creation of an independent specialization – which the author of the article calls an aspectual „hagiology”. The development of research within the framework of aspectual hagiology is open to social and economic (that is innovative) needs with the preservation of the human dimension.
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The article investigates the teaching about evil in the philosophy of Christian theologian Maximus the Confessor. The problem is being solved in the sphere of eschatological views of the thinker, which are yet to be thoroughly covered in science. Using the historic-philosophical methodology, the author looks into the most influential concepts of evil in philosophies of Maximus’s both non-Christian and Christian predecessors. Having borrowed their concept of voidness of being and weakening of natural powers in relation to evil, Maximus also developed his own understanding. It reveals in his eschatological teaching in which the goal of human’s being is the state of deification and ever-moving repose. In this state, gnomic will responsible for committing evil is deactivated. Maximus denies the concept of eternal return, strongly pronounced metaphysically in the Neoplatonic triad of “remaining – procession – reversion”. Approaching to solving the source of evil through investigation of the eschatology of Maximus the Confessor, the author gives a new viewpoint on the Reverend Father’s teaching.
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The article’s topic is participation of the (Roman Catholic) Church in social prevention schemes, resocialization of juvenile offenders, and in penitentiary work. Selected initiatives by representatives of the (Catholic) clergy, priests, and monastic orders are subject to the analysis, the context for which are resocialization pedagogics, dialogue, and support provided to persons who are in danger of committing a crime. Charity work and improvement of offenders’ behaviour through prison-based pastoral work is aimed at implementing the principle of mercy. Such notions as conciliation crosses, the riches of mercy, the separate system (of penance), social work amongst the neglected youth environment, and care and education centres (Fr. B. Markiewicz, brother A. Chmielowski, Fr. Honorat Koźmiński, and others) are analysed, along with today’s religious services in penitentiaries and Pope Francis’s calling to aim at sanctity and acknowledging the good in people belonging to our immediate surrounding.
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Using data from a nationally representative survey of Poles, the principal question I examine is whether anti-Muslim prejudice in Poland primarily stems from negative stereotypes of Muslims, a general discomfort with difference (or ethnocentrism), or threats related to economic insecurity. I also seek to determine whether interpersonal contact with Muslims dilutes prejudice toward Muslims as a group and investigate how the links between stereotyping and ethnocentrism on the one hand and anti-Muslim prejudice on the other depend on respondents’ education. While I find that anti-Muslim prejudice is shaped by negative stereotypes of Muslims and pessimistic perceptions of Poland’s economy, it primarily reflects a more general discomfort with difference. As expected, the strength of the link between stereotypes of Muslims and prejudice toward them depends on how educated Poles are.
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Review of: Janusz MARIAŃSKI - Ewa Stachowska’s Światowe Dni Młodzieży w Krakowie w perspektywie socjologii religii, Warszawa: Zakład Wydawniczy Nomos, 2019
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The article focuses on the theme of faith in the Epistle of St. Jude. The hagiographer emphasizes the fact that the true faith was communicated only once, and as such it must be guarded and consolidated. According to the Epistle, the greatest threat to faith is posed by teachers of a false doctrine: the one based on their own ‘fantasies.’ Such teachers are compared to negative characters portrayed in the Old Testament (such as Cain, Balaam, and Korah), while the community of the Church they succeeded in penetrating is described as credulous. The article also discusses the threats to the true faith, as perceived by the hagiographer and his exhortations to protect it and to build oneself and the community through prayer, vigilance, and hope for God’s grace.
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The 2011 Slovene Public Opinion Survey and World Values Survey have determined that trust in the Roman Catholic Church in Slovenia has fallen to an all-time low in the post-independence era: only 25 percent of Slovenes expressed a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the Church. This article considers how the Church’s social power has been impacted by the so-called Holy Crash, namely, the 2010 collapse of the Archdiocese of Maribor’s financial empire and its investments and interests in various enterprises controlled through its Gospodarstvo Rast financial management company. Revealed is the fact that, in recent years, trust has been eroded most in the Podravje (Drava) and Koroška (Carinthia) regions of Slovenia, both of which lie within the Maribor archdiocese. This decline supports the central hypothesis that the scandal and secrecy surrounding the collapse have negatively impacted trust in the Roman Catholic Church.
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In the article below, I offer a systematic overview of the financial and accounting regulations in Romania, of the church’s internal regulations regarding financial and accounting obligations and customs, as well as some of the accounting principles. This article addresses primarily reformed pastors, church auditors and office managers who work with church bookkeeping, accounting and finances, but it can also be used by students, who inevitably need to become familiar with the rules of bookkeeping and financial management.
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The authentic interpretation of the teachings of the Islam, based upon theoretical framework derived from the texts of the Qur’an and the Hadith and the Sunnah of God’s Messenger p.b.u.h, is a practically applicable model. Undisputed significance of marital union and the significance of family in general along with the crises which these institutions are facing today have raised the issue of living the principles of Islam emphasising the importance of communication in marriage and family. One of the main challenges of Muslim communities is protection of marriage and family from failure, calamity and disintegration. Muhammed s.w.s. is paradigm of devotion to God and he is the model of a living Tawheed of His Revelation and for this reason it is of crucial relevance to study, analyse and present various aspects of his mission. The present article analyses a number of different dimensions of marital and family communication, as the Messenger p.b.u.h. also fulfilled these very important roles in human life. The text also points to the disturbed system of values, materialism and lack of emotional sensitivity as relevant issues of contemporary world. For better understanding of marital communication and communication within a family we took three starting points in accordance with the model and the lifestyle of the Messenger p.b.u.h, without which we believe the realisation of Islamic values, in this context, would be impossible. These are: common identity, common reference framework and interaction of values. These starting points represent essential guidelines of a communication that is based upon the model of Allah’s Messenger p.b.u.h. It is important to note that without accepting God as the absolute and supreme authority, which is the essence of Islamic identity, the principles and values of teachings of Islam regarding family and marital life will not be accomplished. Communication, both verbal and nonverbal, is extremely significant in Islamic identity because it is the way to transmit the values of faith. Essential features of messenger’s model in family and marital communication are: credibility, moral integrity and inclusiveness.
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The magazine Novi Mullim published 26 hutbas with reviews by renowned ulama in issues published from December 2007 to the Spring of 2011. This article analyses the content and the critical review of these hutbas published in the mentioned time period. The text attempts to point out the fact that such public presentation of hutbas and reviews of these hutbas presents an innovative approach to scholarly evaluation of hutba. The author here presents some remarks and observations regarding the methodology of this approach. Thus, the author concludes that in view of the overall mission of the Islamic Community, this approach which implies that reviews of hutbas are presented to the public represents a positive example of transparency. In the column “Muallim’s hutba” each sentence of hatib, his each thought was the subject of detailed analysis of reviewers who sometimes approached their reviewers’ task with the utmost critical vigour. Finally, the author asserts that from present time distance this column can be regarded as an encouragement for further improvement of the skills of hatibs which have been lacking some methodological and technical aspects.
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Theoretical insights in the field of sociology, as well as in any other humanities, often reflect ideologized aspects of human knowledge. Sociological reflections about religion are no exception. In this paper, taking that into account, I will try to point out on some of the methodological and theoretical problems of providing an unambiguous definition of religion with special reference to secularization theories. Absence of consensus in normative definition of religion is a consequence of varieties of theoretical conceptualizations about secularization and vice versa. It is shown that understanding religion and its role in the context of modernity is contingent upon our understanding of secularization. Inter alia, in this text I lay out three main perspectives of studying religion in the field of sociology of religion.
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