scholarly journals Interpretazioni di Gaudium et spes e recezione di Humanae vitae

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2(24)) ◽  
pp. 67-81
Author(s):  
Livio Melina
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
The Body ◽  
Gaudium Et Spes ◽  
Humanae Vitae ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Theological Debate ◽  
Amoris Laetitia

The conflict of interpretations on Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae vitae in his relationship with the pastoral constitution Gaudium et spes of the Vatican Council II was rekindled with the triggering of the idea that Amoris laetitia represents a “paradigm shift” for the pastoral. The essay explores the contents of the theological debate around four themes: anthropology (which personalism?), the theology of marriage (what love?), morality (what conscience?), ecclesial practice (which pastoral care?).It results that there is the truth of the incarnation against a neo-gnostic drift in the interpretation of Humanae vitae, which unhinges love from the body, the person from nature, marriage from procreation and which ends up abandoning the doctrine of Church for the conveniences of an ambiguous primacy of pastoral care.

Pope Francis and Bioethical Concerns in Amoris laetitia

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (10) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
James McTavish ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Gaudium Et Spes ◽  
Humanae Vitae ◽  
The Family ◽  
Church Teaching ◽  
Amoris Laetitia ◽  
The Catholic Church

Amoris laetitia (The Joy of Love), Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation on love in the family, provides the pontiff’s reflections following the 2014–2015 Synods of Bishops on the Family. In it, he examines the situation of families in today’s world and calls readers’ attention “to the parts dealing with their specific needs.” The Pope anchors Amoris laetitia in the continuity of Church teaching, supporting his observations with various documents from the magisterium, including Humanae vitae, Gaudium et spes, Familiaris consortio, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Pastoral Bagi Keluarga Dalam Situasi Khusus Menurut Paus Fransiskus Dalam Anjuran Apostolik Amoris Laetitia

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-200
Author(s):  
Gerardus Rahmat Subekti
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The Face ◽  
Families First ◽  
Difficult Situations ◽  
The Church ◽  
Amoris Laetitia ◽  
Crisis Situations

The article deals with pastoral care for family according to Amoris Laetitia. The author’s concern is to discuss the pastoral steps for the families in the face of crisis situations: What kind of pastoral steps can be organized to assist families in crisis situations? This article is based on the study of ecclesial document Amoris Laetitia, a post-synodal apostolic exhortation by Pope Francis addressing the pastoral care of families. First of all, the article describes the basic thoughts of this document, especially those related to the reality and ideals of family life. Then, it shows some practical pastoral thoughts for assisting families in special situations. The results can be a significant contribution for the Church in terms of its important duties and responsibilities in assisting the families today, but also for family pastoral activists. This description concludes that the crisis situation faced by families is not a fact to be constantly regretted, but an opportunity for the Church to show God's mercy to those who are struggling in difficult situations.

scholarly journals “The genealogy of the person is inscribed in the very biology of generation”. Towards the heart of the dispute on Humanae vitae

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2(24)) ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
Paweł Bortkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Human Person ◽  
Human Action ◽  
The Body ◽  
Pope John Paul Ii ◽  
Conjugal Love ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Humanae Vitae ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Theological Vision

Since the publication of the encyclical "Humanae vitae" by Paul VI in 1968, a heated discussion has been taking place around this document. It comes alive in a particularly intense way on the occasion of the subsequent anniversaries of the publication of the document. Subsequent decades showed a number of problems related not only to the ethics of marital life and sexual ethics, but also to the concept of conscience or recognition or rejection of the seriousness of the Church's Magisterium. Recent months have brought further opinions of antagonists and protagonists of this document.Among opponents or critics of the encyclical, there are views questioning the teaching that contraception is intrinsically evil. This, in consequence, means accepting the thesis that there are no intrinsically evil acts at all. What is more, it should be noted that every human action is determined in its moral nature only by the proportion between its good and bad effects.In confrontation with these views, the article presents an outline of the anthropological and theological truth underlying "Humanae vitae" which was analysed with insight by St. John Paul II. This allows for the extraction of several basic theses relating to the theological vision of marriage and parenthood: 1) to read the truth about marriage and parenthood, it is necessary to fully recognize the truth about the dignity of the human person, 2) the person realizes fully in the reality of the gift that creates interpersonal communion with the participation of the human body, 3) communion and endowment made with the help of the "sign" of the body are realized in interpersonal conjugal love, 4) the special (though not the only) act of conjugal love is a sexual act, 5) marital logic of being a mutual gift is specific and this is inseparability of the bond between the inter-marital gift (between spouses) and the non-marital gift (between parents and children). Ultimately, this leads to the thought of St. Pope John Paul II, ordering to combine the order of the marriage act with the creative act "the genealogy of the person is inscribed in the very biology of generation".

“Guard Your Heart!”

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-150
Author(s):  
Katherine Dugan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Family Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sexual Ethics ◽  
Humanae Vitae ◽  
Theology Of The Body ◽  
The Us ◽  
Personal Ethics

This chapter examines missionaries’ romantic relationships and argues that the way these young adults date, marry, and procreate shapes their position in the US Catholic landscape. These emerging adults develop wide-ranging and gendered interpretations of chastity. They discipline themselves and their co-missionaries to follow Catholic dictums articulated in Humanae Vitae and Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body More than personal ethics, however, this chapter posits that missionaries’ practices of Catholic romance are part of their pro-life politics. How and why these Catholic millennials embody the transitions from singlehood to family life proclaims their proud, dynamically orthodox Catholic alternative to contemporary sexual ethics in the United States.

scholarly journals Neuro–Immune Cell Units: A New Paradigm in Physiology

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Godinho-Silva ◽  
Filipa Cardoso ◽  
Henrique Veiga-Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Adipose Tissue ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Tissue Repair ◽  
Immune Cell ◽  
The Body ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Environmental Signals ◽  
The Past ◽  
Physiological Processes ◽  
The Impact

The interplay between the immune and nervous systems has been acknowledged in the past, but only more recent studies have started to unravel the cellular and molecular players of such interactions. Mounting evidence indicates that environmental signals are sensed by discrete neuro–immune cell units (NICUs), which represent defined anatomical locations in which immune and neuronal cells colocalize and functionally interact to steer tissue physiology and protection. These units have now been described in multiple tissues throughout the body, including lymphoid organs, adipose tissue, and mucosal barriers. As such, NICUs are emerging as important orchestrators of multiple physiological processes, including hematopoiesis, organogenesis, inflammation, tissue repair, and thermogenesis. In this review we focus on the impact of NICUs in tissue physiology and how this fast-evolving field is driving a paradigm shift in our understanding of immunoregulation and organismal physiology.

scholarly journals Leaving Military Service with a Military Body: Insights for Pastoral Care and Counseling

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Grimell
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Military Service ◽  
The Body ◽  
Civilian Life ◽  
Pastoral Care And Counseling ◽  
Counseling Needs ◽  
The Mind

The significance of the body has emerged as a vital yet neglected element in the transition from military to civilian life. The recognition of a military body enhances the understanding of potential pastoral and counseling needs among veterans beyond the mind and the soul. This article attempts to contribute to further knowledge about this topic, drawing from both theory and empirical research, in an effort to provide insights for pastoral care and counseling.

Wives and Husbands

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Body ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Spousal Relationship ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Theology Of The Body ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
New Generation

The chapter provides an overview of recent developments in the theology and ethics of marriage. It places the debates first in a sociocultural context of deinstitutionalization and individualization which has rendered marriage more optional and more fragile, but not weakened its symbolic meaning. It is then shown how the Christian churches have responded to the challenges of late modern society, in particular the Roman Catholic Church with its new emphasis on conjugal love at the Second Vatican Council. Three main strands have marked the theological and ethical discourse subsequently: a revisionist position which defends the subjective and interpersonal aspects of marriage, a traditionalist position which insists on a divine plan for marriage and a corresponding theology of the body, and the approach of a new generation of scholars who accuse the traditionalists of an abstract and idealistic description of the spousal relationship and criticize the revisionists for their narrow focus on private interiority. In a third and final section three major trends are explored and perspectives developed: first, possible arguments for commending marriage over alternative forms of living together are assessed; second, it is argued how heterosexual marriage can still be proclaimed as the ethical norm without discriminating against deviant forms of sexual expression; third, the tension between interpersonal and institutional approaches to marriage is explored and the search for a balance between both poles suggested as a future challenge for the theology of marriage.

scholarly journals Does Periodic Continence Harm Spousal Love?: Pope John Paul II’s Response to the Pastoral Difficulties of Living Out Humanae Vitae

2018 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 358-374
Author(s):  
Irene Alexander
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Humanae Vitae ◽  
Theology Of The Body ◽  
Pastoral Response ◽  
Practical Level

The main reason for the widespread dissent from Humanae vitae is not primarily academic. Rather, dissent arises first on a practical level by couples themselves on account of the difficulty they experience in living out the teaching. More specifically, couples often feel that there is a “contradiction” between the responsible regulation of birth and the unity of their love. This essay addresses this pastoral objection head on through a candid appreciation of the “difficulties” couples experience and through demonstrating Pope John Paul II’s idea of cultivating a “conjugal spirituality,” which moves couples interiorly from merely following rules to fostering reverence both for one’s spouse and for God. Summary: This article provides a pastoral response to the difficulties of living out the teaching of Humanae vitae, by explaining the teaching of Humanae vitae through the lens of Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. Specifically, I explain John Paul II’s exhortation to couples to develop a “conjugal spirituality” through the virtues, so that they will grow in reverence for their spouse and for God.

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