scholarly journals Dignity of human life in the concept of the Catholic Church

2015 ◽  
pp. 240-244
Author(s):  
Neonila Petryshyn
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Current Events ◽  
The Catholic Church

This article analyzes the problem of the dignity of human life in the official documents of the Catholic Church, in the speeches of the Patriarchs of the Catholic Church, their understanding and transfering them to the realities of current events in Ukraine.

The Catholic Church at Puebla

Worldview ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 22 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 13-15
Author(s):  
Renato Poblete
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Human Life ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

The Third General Assembly of the Latin American Episcopate took place last February in the Mexican city of Puebla. Without doubt it will make a profound impact upon the evangelizing action of the Church in Latin America. The documents produced at Puebla, like those produced in Medellin ten years earlier, will give rise to reflections that will find their way into the diverse pastoral plans of each nation.Neither Medellin nor Puebla can be considered isolated phenomenon. On the contrary, each should be seen as fruits of a maturing process in which Christian people, together with their pastors, express both the depths of their anguish and their high hopes and visions. That vision encompasses raising people from subhuman situations to a fuller experience of human life. Such experience should be expected to bring people together in brotherly love and lead naturally to a greater openness to God.

scholarly journals Determinants for the Development of the Activity of the Catholic Church in Poland in the Field of Social Communication

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 845
Author(s):  
Sławomir Gawroński ◽  
Dariusz Tworzydło ◽  
Kinga Bajorek
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Current Attitude ◽  
Current Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
Institutional Church ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

In recent years, the Catholic Church has been forced to change its attitude towards social communication and mass media. It has had to face not only religious but image challenges. Worldview matters, contemporary problems regarding the institution of marriage or pedophilia in the Church are constantly being debated in mass media, thus creating dangers in terms of critical public reception. This situation has also been occurring in Poland in recent years. The observed progress regarding opening the Church to media relations and the use of rich instruments of social communication have their reasons rooted not only in the history of the social and political events of the past several decades but also in the changes in the sphere of mass media and social communication. This article is an attempt to generate a peculiar typology of determinants regarding the development of social communication within the institutional church in Poland. Within our framework of methodological conditions, a literature query with available statistical analyses and observations of current events was applied. Our conclusions show the current attitude of the Catholic Church in Poland regarding issues related to the marketization of faith and the medialization of religion.

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence, ethics, and the catholic church

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
Veronika Čunderlík ČerbováČunderlík Čerbová
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Ethical Approach ◽  
Ai Ethics ◽  
The Catholic Church

The article focused on problems of Artificial Intelligence, questions of ethics and role and position of the Catholic Church. Pontifical Academy for Life, Microsoft, IBM, FAO, the Italia Government, signed on February 2020 the “Call for an AI Ethics”, a document developed to support an ethical approach to Artificial Intelligence and promote a sense of responsibility among organizations, governments, and institutions with the aim to create a future in which digital innovation and technological progress serve human genius and creativity and not their gradual replacement. The objective of the Pontifical Academy for Life is the defence and promotion of the value of human life and of the dignity of the person. Let us pray that the progress of robotics and artificial intelligence may always serve humankind, said pope Francis in November 2020.

scholarly journals Brain-based Criteria of Human Death. Study of the Issue

2020 ◽  
pp. 121-131
Author(s):  
Jacek Norkowski
Keyword(s):  
Brain Death ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Significant Degree ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Moral Problem ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Human Death ◽  
The Catholic Church

In this article I first tried to demonstrate that the theory of so-called braindeath is unsustainable from a scientific point of view. +e data that the medicalprofession provides on this subject clearly contradicts such a theory. It is impossibleto prove, on the basis of the knowledge available to this science thatpeople who are in a state of cerebral death are really dead. +e only thing thatthe doctor can say, without exceeding the limits of the discipline he represents,is that these people have a significant degree of brain damage. +is does notmean, however, that the brain is so damaged that is has ceased to perform all its functions. On the contrary, these patients usually show many symptomsof brain activity. Recognition of these sick people as dead, therefore, contradictsthe principles of the medical art.+e acceptance of the theory of so-called brain death has also given riseto many problems from the legal point of view. Recognition as a living or deceasedperson depends on the criteria for brain death, which vary from countryto country. +e law has therefore become arbitrary in such an important areaas human life and death.+e adoption of the theory of brain death on the basis of such un-robustscientific criteria has undoubtedly become possible only through the acceptanceof certain philosophical assumptions that reduce the human to his or herconsciousness. A permanent loss of consciousness was de facto considered to beevidence of human death. +is position contradicts the achievements of Christianthought in the field of philosophical anthropology, which emphasises theunity of the individual and the importance of his or her bodily aspect. Whatis even more important, however, is the fact that modern man tends to thinkin terms of moral utilitarianism. Many people believe that it is possible to sacrificethe life of a person who is seriously ill and who has no hope of improvement(in this case, a person with cerebral death syndrome) for the benefit of otherpatients. +is attitude explains the passivity of many circles and the failureto discuss such an important issue as the rightness or wrongness of the theoryof so-called brain death. It is not without significance that there is a specifictransplant lobby in individual countries, which puts moral pressure on entiresocieties to accept the removal of organs for transplantation from people whoare in a state of so-called brain death, and suppresses the discussion of moralproblems associated with it.It is necessary for the Catholic Church to develop a clear position on thismatter. +is has not yet happened. +ere is even a surprising lack of consensusamong various the authorities. However, some of the hierarchy of the CatholicChurch have already spoken on this matter. +ese include Cardinal Meissner,Archbishop of Cologne, who clearly rejected the theory of brain death as incompatiblewith the principles of the Church’s teaching8'. Pope John Paul IIalso wrote in the encyclical Evangelium Vitae: “Nor can we remain silent aboutthe existence of other, better camouflaged but no less dangerous forms of euthanasia.We would be dealing with them, for example, if, in order to obtain moreorgans for transplantation, we proceeded to collect these organs from donorsbefore they were declared dead according to objective and adequate criteria.”Although these words do not mention the concept of brain death, theyrefer to it indirectly. +is paper was written in order to draw attention to justsuch a moral problem hidden in the concept of so-called brain death.In conclusion, I would like to give the floor to one of the participantsin the discussion on brain death, Dr Tomoko Abe. She wrote: “It is true thatthe latest developments in science and technology have brought many benefits.At the same time, however, they have brought unprecedented confusion in philosophyand culture to our societies. Due to the destructive tendencies of thepresent day, it is becoming increasingly important to establish social standardsto protect the most vulnerable members of society, such as young children andunconscious patients who cannot defend themselves. We therefore concludethat the current diagnostic criteria for brain death should be abolished andthat a worldwide ban on transplants from people with cerebral death syndromeshould be introduced.”88Dr. Abe is not alone in a desire to overthrow the theory of so-called braindeath and to consider its criteria as non-scientific. +e same is demanded bymany other authors. +e voice of the Catholic Church in this matter is undoubtedlyone of the most important. As the greatest authority in the world in mattersof morality and human rights, it cannot fail to explain the issue of so-calledbrain death in its teaching.

scholarly journals Minar el principio de laicidad: discurso de la Iglesia Católica sobre la homosexualidad en México

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
María De Jesús González Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Homosexual Behavior ◽  
Verbal Expression ◽  
Power Of Words ◽  
Sobre Todo ◽  
The Catholic Church

Resumen: Con base en una investigación histórico-sociológica este artículo ofrece un ejercicio refl exivosobre la postura que sostiene la Iglesia católica enMéxico frente al tema de la homosexualidad. El análisisdel discurso resulta útil para comprender la concepciónque tiene dicha institución religiosa acerca de estaorientación sexual. A través de la expresión verbal setiende a confi gurar una determinada representaciónde las personas. El discurso tiene la capacidad no sólode expresar un pensamiento, sino también de asignarsignifi cados, construir escenarios mentales y socialesque pueden reproducirse. Los pronunciamientos de lajerarquía católica respecto a la cuestión homosexual,pueden incidir en conductas como la exclusión o ladiscriminación, debido a la fuerza de la palabra ya la exhibición de sus aparatos enunciativos. Estopuede minar el principio de laicidad, en rasgos que loconstituyen como la convivencia social, el respeto a losderechos humanos y a la soberanía de los individuos,sobre todo, en ámbitos cruciales de la vida humana,como la elección de sus relaciones afectivas y sexuales.Palabras clave: discurso, Iglesia Católica,homosexualidad, laicidad.Undermining the Principle of Secularism.Discourse of the Catholic Church on Homosexualityin MexicoAbstract: On the basis of historico-sociologicalresearch this article offers a refl ective exercise on theposition the Catholic Church in Mexico holds on theissue of homosexuality. Discourse analysis is useful forunderstanding the concept of that religious institutionabout this sexual orientation. Verbal expression tends toset a specifi c representation of people. Speech has theability not only to express a thought, but also to assignmeanings, mental and social scenarios that can bereplicated. The Catholic hierarchy’s pronouncements onthe issue of homosexual behavior can affect the exclusionor discrimination because of the power of words and thedisplay of their expository devices. This may underminethe principle of secularism, in such aspects as socialcoexistence, respect for human rights and sovereignty ofindividuals, especially in a crucial area of human life, thechoice of affective and sex relationships.Key words: speech, Catholic Church, homosexuality,secularism.

scholarly journals Change of semantic emphasis in the strategy of interaction with the world of the Catholic Church

2009 ◽  
pp. 254-259
Author(s):  
Oksana Gorkusha
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Loss Of Self ◽  
Historical Progress ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Holistic Vision ◽  
The Catholic Church

The colorful worldviews of our contemporaries are a manifestation of world-wide processes in the world, which are usually defined through the concepts of "globalization processes", "information day", "postmodern instruction" and are accompanied in particular by such negative additions as "global problems of humanity", "information gluttony" "," the loss of faith in the reasoning of mankind and its historical progress. " The latter should also include the loss of faith in the true meaning of life, the world, history and, as a consequence, the lack of faith in the guaranteed prospects of achieving a proper state of being. It is clear that these problems are in one way or another rooted in the spiritual realm, since the absence or irrelevance of the foundations of the worldview can lead to information bewilderment, alienation from the world, loss of self-identity and a harmonious and holistic vision of being in its multiple vector time parameters. Obviously, it is religion itself, and the Catholic Church in particular, that has historically developed and proven tools for restoring a human belief in the true, valid foundations and perspectives of human life. After all, religious organizations themselves have a keen interest in their relevance in the modern world, as their future will depend on it.

scholarly journals Criteria of Christian worldview in ancient beliefs of Ukrainians

2003 ◽  
pp. 67-75
Author(s):  
O.O. Volynets
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Church Of Christ ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Christian Worldview ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Ways Of Life ◽  
The Catholic Church

The Second Vatican Council of the Universal Church of Christ, under the slogan “Ajornamento”, called on Christians to take a fresh look at non-Christian religions, as well as those who were preparing the coming of Christ on their earth. “From ancient times and to this day, there is a certain sense of this mysterious power among different nations, which works in the phenomena of nature and in the events of human life, moreover, and sometimes the recognition of the Supreme Godhead, and even of the Father. This knowledge and feeling pervades the deep religious sentiment of their lives. ... The Catholic Church does not reject anything that is true and holy in these religions. With sincere reverence she looks at these ways of life and actions, at these commandments and doctrines, although in many things they are different from what she acknowledges and preaches, not infrequently, however, they reveal the ray of that Truth that enlightens all people. ”

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