National Minorities: A Chance or Challenge for the Catholic Church

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Szabolcs Orban
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
The Catholic Church

"The issue of national minorities in the past century has often given rise to conflicts, becoming a peace-threatening issue and consequently a source of serious distress. Thus, from this perspective, it had become a topic that the churches could not remain silent about. This article aims to present briefly the way in which the Catholic Church related to the national minorities from the perspective of the Catholic social teaching. At first, we will present a few ecclesiastical documents (papal documents, writings, speeches, etc.) that touched upon this topic one way or another during the past more than 100 years. In the light of these, we shall see the main aspects that the Catholic Church deemed to be important to emphasize in relation to minorities. Next, as an example, we shall also mention a few local ecclesiastical documents pointing out the manner in which the general principles are manifest in the toilsome everyday life of the local communities experiencing concrete historical situations. The third part of the study will refer to the important basic principles of social teaching – namely, common good and subsidiarity –, and we will try to pin down certain insights that would guide both the majority and the minority on the path towards the opportunity of welfare, thereby bringing hope for the mitigation of tensions. Keywords: national minorities, social teaching, the Catholic Church, common good, subsidiarity."

scholarly journals The Principle of Subsidiarity: Lessons from the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church

2018 ◽  
pp. 42-48
Author(s):  
Sergiy   Prysukhin
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
Proper Functions ◽  
The Catholic Church

The article by S. Prysukhin “The Principle of Subsidiarity: Lessons from the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church” analyzes the achievements of the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church, represented by the works of Leo XIII, Pius XI, Pius XII, John Paul II, revealing the meaningful characteristics of the concept of “the principle of subsidiarity”, its role and meaning in the system of Christian values. The principle of subsidiarity makes possible such relationships in social life, when the community of higher order does not interfere in the internal life of the community of the lower order, taking over the proper functions of that function; for the common good it gives it when necessary support and assistance, thereby coordinating its interaction with other social structures. The principle of subsidiarity guides social practice to the promotion of the common good in the human community. The spread and application of the principle of subsidiarity opposes the danger of "nationalization" of society and the most terrible manifestations of collectivism, restricts the absoluteization of power, bureaucratization of state and socio-cultural structures, becoming one of the guarantors of respect for the rights and freedoms of citizens of their country.

scholarly journals Voices of Justice in Non-Fiction Films and in Christianity.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luís Proença
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Catholic Church

Environmental degradation and one of its effects, global warming, have worsened the inequalities between the rich and the poor among people and nations. The Catholic Church has demonstrated its deep commitment to social justice visibly since the Vatican II, while the most recent Encyclical, Laudato Si1, offered by Pope Francis moves the Church in an unprecedented manner toward the coupling of sustainability and religion to address global inequalities.This paper features a few important dimensions of inequalities to heighten the urgency of global social justice work. It then reviews documents connected to sustainability in Catholic social teaching, with an emphasis on Laudato Si by Pope Francis.Finally, through a brief analysis of a contemporary documentary film, “Virunga” (2014),2 which focuses on a crisis that recently occurred in the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, this paper illustrates an impactful and effective way to articulate global inequality and mobilize coalitions to protect people, creatures and land against violence and environmental degradation.Social documentaries, in general, represent voices for justice and the common good shared by all major religions, and the documents of the Catholic Church highlighted in the paper offer a concrete trajectory for global justice that we see in cinematic form.

The Lancashire Irish and the catholic church, 1846-71: the social dimension

1976 ◽  
Vol 20 (78) ◽  
pp. 129-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. J. Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Catholic Church

One of the most important influences on Irish life during the past century and a half has been the Roman Catholic church. This is true not only in Ireland, but also in Irish emigrant communities. What I hope to demonstrate is that the emergence of the catholic church in Lancashire as a primary social institution. which fostered the growth of a community identity, gave the immigrant Irish a valuable sense of constancy and continuity and paralleled developments in Ireland during the first half of the nineteenth century. But the church’s influence, which was scarcely diminished, and was perhaps strengthened, by the experience of emigration, must have been founded on a very sound base to be in a position to assume such a dynamic role among the Irish in Ireland and the Irish living elsewhere.

scholarly journals The Mission of the Catholic Church for the State in the Discourse of “Gosc Niedzielny” during Poland’s Interwar Period

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 188
Author(s):  
Rafał Śpiewak ◽  
Wiktor Widera
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Common Good ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Level Of Involvement ◽  
Historical Reflection ◽  
The Catholic Church

The essence of the Catholic Church implemented in the modern world is of crucial importance for the understanding its mission towards the state, especially when developing appropriate civil attitudes. One sources of cognition is the historical reflection made on an analytical basis of Catholic media content. This article presents the discourse analysis of Gość Niedzielny (i.e., Sunday Guest), which was one of the most important Catholic publications in Poland, during the reconstruction of the Polish statehood. The pro-state mission of the Catholic Church was an expression of responsibility for common good, was nonpartisan and was connected with the promotion of values that condition the social order. It was believed that the condition of the state is determined by the moral form of its citizens and their level of involvement in social life. Christian values were though to secure and protect also the good of non-Catholic citizens. Here, the research and discourse analysis allows us to define the conclusions regarding contemporary relations between Church and the state in Poland. The key thoughts included in the publications of Sunday Guest, have contemporary application and their message is extremely up-to-date.

A Catholic Inclusive Approach to Homosexuality in Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 396-408
Author(s):  
Daniel Ude Asue
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Inclusive Society ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

This essay discusses Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill in Nigeria, with a focus on the contribution of the Nigerian Catholic Church to the law. Though the Catholic Church in Nigeria did not actively contribute towards the public debates about homosexuality that resulted into the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill it nevertheless welcomed the bill. However, the official teachings of the Catholic Church and elucidations from the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria could potentially contribute to creating an inclusive society. In what way can we potentially utilize the principles of Catholic Social Teaching to make room for an inclusion of homosexual persons in the life of the church and in society?

Lamennais

1947 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Waldemar Gurian
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Early Church ◽  
The Third ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Papal Infallibility ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

The history of the Catholic Church includes men who, after brilliant services to the Church, died outside her fold. Best known among them is Tertullian, the apologetic writer of the Early Church; less known is Ochino, the third vicar-general of the Capuchins, whose flight to Calvin's Geneva almost destroyed his order. In the nineteenth century there were two famous representatives of this group. Johann von Doellinger refused, when more than seventy years old, to accept the decision of the Vatican Council about papal infallibility. He passed away in 1890 unreconciled, though he had been distinguished for years as the outstanding German Catholic theologian. Félicité de la Mennais was celebrated as the new Pascal and Bossuet of his time before he became the modern Tertullian by breaking with the Church because Pope Gregory XVI rejected his views on the relations between the Church and die world. As he lay deathly ill, his niece, “Madame de Kertanguy asked him: ‘Féli, do you want a priest? Surely, you want a priest?’ Lamennais answered: ‘No.’ The niece repeated: ‘I beg of you.’ But he said with a stronger voice: ‘No, no, no.

scholarly journals The problems of marriage in the social teaching of the Catholic Church

2014 ◽  
pp. 112-122
Author(s):  
S. Prysuhin
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Catholic Church

In the article S. Prysukhin “The problems of marriage in the social teaching of the Catholic Church” reveals substantial characteristics of the concept of "Christian marriage", its positive value in overcoming the social structures of sin in modern civilization.

Review Essays Recent Books on the Catholic Church in Poland

2000 ◽  
pp. 401-405
Author(s):  
John T. Pawlikowski
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Ritual Murder ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Catholic Church

This chapter explores four review essays. The first essay considers recent books on the Catholic Church in Poland, which raise issues that are crucial to a continued Polish–Jewish dialogue. The second essay recounts how, in the course of 1997, a handful of publications of a distinctly antisemitic character found their way onto the shelves of bookshops in Poland, and some contain the infamous nonsense about ‘ritual murder’. Some of the publications also talk about a ‘Jewish-masonic plot’ aimed at world domination. The third essay presents a Lithuanian account of life in the Nazi concentration camps. Finally, the fourth essay considers analyses of world antisemitism published between 1991 and 1997.

A Historiographical Critique of The Inquisition by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongwoo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
The Past ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Catholic Church

Butterfield defined Whig historiography as studying ―the past with reference to the present‖ to make a simple binary categorization of the good and the evil and make history a story of progress. Originally, the Anglo-American historians used Whig historiography to present the Catholic Church as the antithesis of modernity and liberalism in a reductive manner. Baigent and Leigh further this kind of historiography in The Inquisition.

Finnish humanity and independence The breadth of Bawa's oeuvre

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-103
Author(s):  
DAVID ROBSON
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Third World ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
The Third ◽  
Population Explosion ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Catholic Church

I would like to respond to one of the points raised by Richard Murphy in his perceptive review of my book on Geoffrey Bawa (arq 7/1, pp86–88). His description of Bawa as an architect ‘in the Third World but decidedly not of it’ exercised by the fact that Bawa, like Luis Barragán, failed to address ‘pressing problems of population explosion and rapid urbanization’ in his work and that ‘with the exception of some work for the Catholic Church, Bawa's opus was built exclusively for the country's elite’.

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