As soon as it was clear that Pope Francis's 2015 Encyclical, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, would discuss, among other issues, the moral imperative to address global climate change, U.S.
A. Landrum, R. Vasquez
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“Protector of religion”: the fate of the quotation from the Encyclical of the eastern patriarchs of 1848 in Russian religious thought of the Synodal period [PDF]
The article focuses on references to the Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs of 1848 in Russian religious thought. It highlights the particular attention Russian theology paid to the fragment of the letter that characterizes the «people» as the «body of
Anna Makarova
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The Culture of Life and the New Maternity
Within the divergent streams of late-modern and largely Western feminism, the experience and ethos (and ethics) of motherhood and the significance of the “maternal body” have been hotly contested and problematic.
Anna Krohn
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The World Is the Road to God: The Encyclical Laudato Si’ and the “Ecological” Vision of Pope Francis
Today, the response to the consequences of present and future environmental catastrophes tends to take three forms: one purely technological-productive coming from the alliance between States and the Market; another one, which is essentially movementist,
Fabio Tarzia, Emiliano Ilardi
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Czas w encyklikach Jana Pawła II
The article contains the description of temporal relations in encyclicals of John Paul II. Encyclical is an official letter of pope to his church, which main functions are: propaga- tion, elucidation and interpretation basie truths of faith in doctrinal
URSZULA GAJEWSKA
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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\u3cem\u3eCaritas in Veritate\u3c/em\u3e and Africa\u27s Burden of (Under)Development [PDF]
Providing a critical reading of Pope Benedict\u27s Caritas in veritate from an African perspective, the note examines several key issues in the encyclical to determine their relevance to the situation of development and underdevelopment in Africa.
Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E.
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Germ Panic and Chalice Hygiene in the Church of England, c.1895–1930
The late‐Victorian medical revolution in bacteriology, and growing public awareness of hygienic standards and the danger of disease infection from germs, created alarm about the traditional Christian practice of drinking from a common cup at Holy Communion.
Andrew Atherstone
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Groaning with Creation: ecological spirituality in Laudato Sì [PDF]
In this sequel to his overview of Pope Francis’ second encyclical in the August issue of Open House, an environmental engineer reflects on the spirituality it ...
Younger, Paul L.
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The Revival of Scholastic Sacramental Theology after the Publication of Aeterni Patris [PDF]
The article explores Neo-Scholasticism, a period in Catholic theology which, normally nowadays, attracts little attention. The publication of Leo XIII’s encyclical Aeterni Patris, in 1879, and its effects on theology are studied with particular ...
Scerri, Hector
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