Care for Incomplete Families

2020

The problem of infertility today constitutes a challenge for pastoral theology and pastoral care of families. This article, of a theological-empirical character, addresses the correlation between marital satisfaction and a sense of life’s meaning among infertile married couples who seek help in Catholic clinics for infertility treatment. It first discusses the theoretical background and selected results of existing scholarship on the influence that infertility has on conjugal relations and a sense of life’s meaning. Then, it outlines the group of infertile married individuals studied and elucidates the research methodology employed. Then, the results of the research into a sense of life’s meaning and marital satisfaction are presented, together with the correlation between the two factors. The final section of the article offers conclusions drawn from the research conducted. The article argues that a sense of life’s meaning is visibly contingent on the respondents’ martial satisfact...

Roczniki Teologiczne, 2017

The aspirations of Pope Francis for the renewal of pastoral care of the family are based on the deeply theologically rooted principles of the Church's proper role. In the exhortation Amoris Laetitia, the principle of God's grace, the principle of pastoral love, the paschal principle of sacrifice and the principle of the Church's missionary activity are all clearly visible. In the document , we can also find a few directions for the renewal of the pastoral care of the family. The strengthening of the focus of the parish as well as the strengthening of the focus of spouses and the domestic Church on pastoral care of the family are crucial. Further on, we find encouragement for the renewal of the preparation for marriage within the ecclesial community, and for the development and strengthening of the pastoral care of married couples. The Pope sees the care for those in irregular situations as an extension of the pastoral care of engaged and married couples. Consequently, for the realization of the desired directions in the development and renewal of pastoral care of the family, it is necessary to expand and deepen the formation of seminarians and priests for their pastoral work with engaged persons, married couples and families.

Rocznik Teologii Katolickiej 17/1 (2018), 2018

This article discusses four specific pastoral challenges associated with accompanying families presented in Pope Francis' Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia. The first challenge is to come to a new understanding of pastoral care of families, which should primarily include parishes and the families that belong to them. The second challenge is pastoral concern for couples and their bond of marriage and maturation of marital love. The third challenge involves helping married couples in the spiritual life of their families. The fourth and final challenge is accompanying divorced people who are living in new unions and helping them to discern their moral responsibility, which will enable them to interpret God's teaching and seek the path to reconciliation with God and the Church.

Roczniki Teologiczne

In this critique of a six-volume ›Cultural History of Race‹, I state that although all authors agree with the statements »that there are no biological races« and that »there are many forms of oppression that can take on the form of racism«, many of them conflate race and racism, de-contextualize and de-historicize race, retroject it to epochs where it did not exist and, as a result, fail to itemize the diversity of racisms as well as their particular connection with other forms of social classifications. This hypertrophy of ›race‹ obscures the emergence of different racisms linked to different class societies. ›Race‹ is substituted for the heterogeneous manifestations of racism. Whether purportedly barbarian or savage, infidel or heretical, impure or polluted – all ›others‹ are ›racialized‹. Thus, the ›transhistorical‹ understanding of race inadvertently reveals the inevitable essentialism of its construction, even in the critical use of the category. This corresponds with the telling (and exclusive) decoupling of race and racism in cases where race is the foundation of resistance.

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Emerald Publishing Limited eBooks, 2019