In its mission of evangelization, the Church has focused on pastoral care of vocations in recent years. Confronted with the many challenges facing civilization and the progressive secularization of the societies of materialistic Europe, the Church has been seeking appropriate methods, means, and formation strategies to help young people recognize their vocation. Undoubtedly today many formators and vocation animators are aware of the significant role that the psychological sciences play in the understanding human identity. God is always calling, but man alone can respond.In the human formation and maturation process, a person has the opportuni ty to come to know himself and understand his own history. A person who has responded to God’s call must also agree to ongoing long-term formation. From this point of view, personal accompaniment plays an important role, since no person is capable of progressing towards human and spiritual maturity alone.
{"title":"Pastoral Care of Vocations and Personal Identity","authors":"Adam Skreczko","doi":"10.15290/rtk.2021.20.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15290/rtk.2021.20.09","url":null,"abstract":"In its mission of evangelization, the Church has focused on pastoral care of vocations in recent years. Confronted with the many challenges facing civilization and the progressive secularization of the societies of materialistic Europe, the Church has been seeking appropriate methods, means, and formation strategies to help young people recognize their vocation. Undoubtedly today many formators and vocation animators are aware of the significant role that the psychological sciences play in the understanding human identity. God is always calling, but man alone can respond.In the human formation and maturation process, a person has the opportuni ty to come to know himself and understand his own history. A person who has responded to God’s call must also agree to ongoing long-term formation. From this point of view, personal accompaniment plays an important role, since no person is capable of progressing towards human and spiritual maturity alone.","PeriodicalId":346997,"journal":{"name":"Rocznik Teologii Katolickiej","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126708436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this article, the author presents and critiques of Antonio Socci’s substantiations for the historicity of Jesus. This Italian apologist is a writer, journalist, and Catholic publicist is known for his controversial theses. By taking up a defense of Jesus, and thereby Christianity itself, Antonio Socci seeks first to unmask the lies that underpin the foundations of antichristian ideology and then demonstrate the credibility of the events described in the Gospel by referring to archeological and historical studies. As he himself admits, Socci’s publications are not the works of an expert, exegete, papyrologist, or historian, but rather the fruit of his journalistic investigations that takes the form of an apology. The author of this article reconstructs Socci’s defense of Jesus and then critiques his most controversial theories. He then proceeds to formulate conclusions based on this research.
{"title":"A Substantiation of the Historicity of Jesus in Antonio Socci’s Apology: A Presentation and Critique","authors":"Przemysław Artemiuk","doi":"10.15290/rtk.2020.19.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15290/rtk.2020.19.06","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the author presents and critiques of Antonio Socci’s substantiations for the historicity of Jesus. This Italian apologist is a writer, journalist, and Catholic publicist is known for his controversial theses. By taking up a defense of Jesus, and thereby Christianity itself, Antonio Socci seeks first to unmask the lies that underpin the foundations of antichristian ideology and then demonstrate the credibility of the events described in the Gospel by referring to archeological and historical studies. As he himself admits, Socci’s publications are not the works of an expert, exegete, papyrologist, or historian, but rather the fruit of his journalistic investigations that takes the form of an apology. The author of this article reconstructs Socci’s defense of Jesus and then critiques his most controversial theories. He then proceeds to formulate conclusions based on this research.","PeriodicalId":346997,"journal":{"name":"Rocznik Teologii Katolickiej","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126019541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The project is funded by the Minister of Science and Higher Education within the program under the name “Regional Initiative of Excellence” in 2019-2022, project number: 028/RID/2018/19, the amount of funding: 11 742 500 PLN.
{"title":"The Roman Catholic Church’s Late Medieval Teaching on Eschatology as the Basis for Visual Catechesis","authors":"P. Mąkosa","doi":"10.15290/rtk.2019.18.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15290/rtk.2019.18.10","url":null,"abstract":"The project is funded by the Minister of Science and Higher Education within the program under the name “Regional Initiative of Excellence” in 2019-2022, project number: 028/RID/2018/19, the amount of funding: 11 742 500 PLN.","PeriodicalId":346997,"journal":{"name":"Rocznik Teologii Katolickiej","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121572321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article considers the difficulties associated with grief, mourning, and healing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The current pandemic has affected the way individuals overcome grief, since the bereaved must grieve without the usual social, cultural, and religious supports. Due to the ban on visiting the sick in hospitals as well as gathering and mourning in funeral homes, many people are experiencing pathological grief. This article indicates the importance of pastorally accompanying people who are going through the complicated process of mourning, and it emphasizes that, through spiritual help and psychological accompaniment, this period can lead to healing that results in posttraumatic adaptation (resilience) and inner development.
{"title":"Grief and Mourning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Psychological and Pastoral Perspective","authors":"K. Trębski","doi":"10.15290/rtk.2021.20.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15290/rtk.2021.20.10","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers the difficulties associated with grief, mourning, and healing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The current pandemic has affected the way individuals overcome grief, since the bereaved must grieve without the usual social, cultural, and religious supports. Due to the ban on visiting the sick in hospitals as well as gathering and mourning in funeral homes, many people are experiencing pathological grief. This article indicates the importance of pastorally accompanying people who are going through the complicated process of mourning, and it emphasizes that, through spiritual help and psychological accompaniment, this period can lead to healing that results in posttraumatic adaptation (resilience) and inner development.","PeriodicalId":346997,"journal":{"name":"Rocznik Teologii Katolickiej","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128864521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
REV. JOZEF BUDNIAK, PhD, Hab. Was born in Cieszyn, Poland; ordained to the priesthood in the Diocese of Bielsko-Żywiec; and conducts research and teaches at the University of Silesia in Katowice’s Department of Theology. He is a member of the Faculty of Canon Law and Ecumenism; Chaplain to His Holiness; serves as the Secretary for Ecumenism in Diocese of Bielsko-Żywiec Diocese. He is the former President of the International Ecumenical Fellowship as well as the former Chairman of Polish-Czech and Polish-Slovak Relations Commission at the Polish Academy of Science in Katowice. Currently, he is a member of the Commission Chairman of the Society of Theologians on Ecumenism; a member of the Polish Bishop’s Conference Committee for Dialogue with the Evangelical-Augsburg Church Community.
JOZEF BUDNIAK牧师，博士，Hab。出生于波兰切森;被任命为别尔斯科教区-Żywiec的神父;并在卡托维兹的西里西亚大学神学系进行研究和教学。他是教会法和普世主义学院的成员;教皇陛下的牧师;担任别尔斯科教区(-Żywiec教区)大公主义秘书。他是国际普世奖学金的前主席以及卡托维兹波兰科学院波兰-捷克和波兰-斯洛伐克关系委员会的前主席。目前，他是普世主义神学家协会委员会主席的成员;波兰主教与福音派奥格斯堡教会团体对话委员会成员。
{"title":"The Reception of the Decree on Ecumenism Unitatis Redintegratio in Cieszyn Silesia","authors":"Józef Budniak","doi":"10.15290/rtk.2019.18.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15290/rtk.2019.18.12","url":null,"abstract":"REV. JOZEF BUDNIAK, PhD, Hab. Was born in Cieszyn, Poland; ordained to the priesthood in the Diocese of Bielsko-Żywiec; and conducts research and teaches at the University of Silesia in Katowice’s Department of Theology. He is a member of the Faculty of Canon Law and Ecumenism; Chaplain to His Holiness; serves as the Secretary for Ecumenism in Diocese of Bielsko-Żywiec Diocese. He is the former President of the International Ecumenical Fellowship as well as the former Chairman of Polish-Czech and Polish-Slovak Relations Commission at the Polish Academy of Science in Katowice. Currently, he is a member of the Commission Chairman of the Society of Theologians on Ecumenism; a member of the Polish Bishop’s Conference Committee for Dialogue with the Evangelical-Augsburg Church Community.","PeriodicalId":346997,"journal":{"name":"Rocznik Teologii Katolickiej","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115939013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article presents the Congregation for the Clergy’s reflection on the state of the parish and conditions for pastoral care. The congregation’s most recent instruction entitled The Pastoral Conversion of the Parish Community in the Service of the Evangelizing Mission of the Church presents the authors’ vision for renewal of the parish community and pastoral care within the parish setting. This article is the first of its kind to present the bases for, the conditions of, and the direction that such renewal should take. The need for renewal stems primarily from ongoing cultural changes that are taking place in the modern world. The renewal should transform the parish into a sanctuary where the Word of God is proclaimed in a way that the faithful understand. The parish should become a place of deep devotion to the Eucharist and a shelter for every person in need. In order to renew the parish, it is necessary to change parish structures. It is also fitting to introduce changes concerning the agents of pastoral care and to engage the laity in pastoral care of the parish. Through textual and comparative analysis as well as textual criticism, the author presents the model of parish pastoral care according to the Instruction The Pastoral Conversion of the Parish Community in the Service of the Evangelizing Mission of the Church.
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Contemporary legislation which regards the legal relations between parents and children has been undergoing transformation. At the beginning of the People’s Republic of Poland the legislation regarding the regulations was unified during the years 1945-1946, then there were codifications from 1950 and 1964 and the law amendments from 1975 and 2008. Moral and customary elements were particularly significant in the family law as they exerted crucial influence on the contents of the regulations. It should be emphasised that Father Michal Sopoćko devoted a lot of his work and attention to these very regulations. Contemporarily we cannot disregard the whole range of nuances of the term “contemporary family”. This term significantly differs from the meaning which functioned in the period of creating the Family and Guardianship Code from 1964. In that period the concept of the family was based on the foundation of marriage. Currently the alternative forms of family life are being developed and civil unions are becoming more and more popular. Thus the family outside marriage is also recognized in different relationships.
{"title":"Relationships between parents and children and the child’s affiliation in the provisions of the family codes in the former and contemporary Republic of Poland","authors":"Helena Ciepła","doi":"10.15290/rtk.2022.21.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15290/rtk.2022.21.04","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary legislation which regards the legal relations between parents and children has been undergoing transformation. At the beginning of the People’s Republic of Poland the legislation regarding the regulations was unified during the years 1945-1946, then there were codifications from 1950 and 1964 and the law amendments from 1975 and 2008. Moral and customary elements were particularly significant in the family law as they exerted crucial influence on the contents of the regulations. It should be emphasised that Father Michal Sopoćko devoted a lot of his work and attention to these very regulations. Contemporarily we cannot disregard the whole range of nuances of the term “contemporary family”. This term significantly differs from the meaning which functioned in the period of creating the Family and Guardianship Code from 1964. In that period the concept of the family was based on the foundation of marriage. Currently the alternative forms of family life are being developed and civil unions are becoming more and more popular. Thus the family outside marriage is also recognized in different relationships.","PeriodicalId":346997,"journal":{"name":"Rocznik Teologii Katolickiej","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124324811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This journal article discusses articles about the Catholic Church in Poland that appeared in the daily Polish newspaper Trybuna Ludu [The People’s Tribune] in 1949. This official publication of the Polish United Workers’ Party (Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza) played an important role in spreading propaganda during communist rule in the Polish People’s Republic. During this time, the communist authorities sought to subordinate and neutralize the Church. The year 1949 was particularly important in the history of the relationship between the state and the church because it was then that the communist authorities launched a media offensive against the Catholic Church. While the authorities officially claimed to guarantee religious freedom, they forbid religion from being taught in Polish schools and supported only pro-government “patriot priests.” Specifically, Trybuna Ludu reported lawsuits filed against priests who supported the anti-communist underground. An analysis of these articles demonstrates how the communist party used Trybuna Ludu as a tool to spread propaganda.
这篇期刊文章讨论了1949年波兰《人民论坛报》(Trybuna Ludu)刊登的有关波兰天主教会的文章。波兰统一工人党(Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza)的这份官方出版物在波兰人民共和国共产主义统治期间发挥了重要的宣传作用。在此期间，共产党当局试图使教会服从和中立。在国家与教会关系的历史上，1949年是特别重要的一年，因为正是在那一年，共产党当局对天主教会发起了媒体攻势。虽然官方声称保障宗教自由，但他们禁止波兰学校教授宗教，只支持亲政府的“爱国者牧师”。具体来说，Trybuna Ludu报道了对支持反共地下组织的牧师提起的诉讼。对这些文章的分析表明，共产党是如何利用Trybuna Ludu作为传播宣传的工具的。
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Contemporary man is particularly sensitive to the issues related to his freedom. However, not everything perceived as freedom is in fact freedom. In the face of this fascination with apparent freedom, which is presented as unlimited but in fact leads to enslavement, the Church has a particular task in forming a proper understanding of freedom. This task was undertaken, among others, by John Paul II. This article is an attempt to present the Pope’s concept of freedom based on truth, love and responsibility.
当代人对与他的自由有关的问题特别敏感。然而，并非所有被视为自由的东西都是真正的自由。面对这种对表面上的自由的迷恋，这种自由似乎是无限的，但实际上却导致了奴役，教会有一项特殊的任务，就是形成对自由的正确理解。这项任务是由约翰·保罗二世(John Paul II)等人承担的。这篇文章试图呈现教皇基于真理、爱和责任的自由观念。
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This article is an analytical and interpretive reading of the Mexican film director Carlos Reygadas’ work in light of “semina Verbi” (seeds of the Word). In his films, Reygadas explores the alienation and confusion that man, who has rejected traditional values and faith in God, experiences in the modern world. At the same time and like his characters, Reygadas seeks transcendence and the possibility of spiritual rebirth. His films are not strictly religious, but they do contain faint echoes the Gospel or semina Verbi, meaning “seeds of the Word” that are present in non-Christian cultures and secular works of art. As John Paul II said, the Spirit sows seeds of the Word in different rites and cultures that open them up to the fullness of meaning in Jesus Christ. Viewers can find semina Verbi in different elements of Reygadas’ films, including: the characters’ motivations, aspirations, and actions; the symbolic structure of the film’s space and time; and in the specific narrative style that invites viewers to meditate and contemplate. This Mexican director’s films echo man’s hidden longing for the spiritual world and for union with the sacred, with nature that surrounds him (which is “divinized” in many films), with himself, and with his spirituality that has been lost.An essential element of Reygadas’ work is the pursuit of transcendence understood in a specific way. The director does not seek metaphysical order in his works. Instead, he uncovers the biological and bodily dimensions of the world and recalls the eternal cycle of death and rebirth in nature. This is why transcendence often has a sexual dimension in Reygadas’ films; his characters experience a renewed physical interaction by which they transcend themselves. This type of experience leads the characters from passivity, stagnation, and death to the vitality and life. Reygadas’ characters’ search for metaphysical and spiritual transcendence and their experience of bodily transcendence are motivated and characterized by something similar: the desire to transcend their own limitations and barriers—an experience of contact with the One Who surpasses man, or that which man surpasses. The presence of images of transcendence and hidden semina Verbi are important determinants of Reygadas’ creative works. The cinematic reality that he creates is a distant sign of a higher order established by something other than man, and, yet, it is an order over which man has an overwhelming influence.
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