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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Newspaper international coverage: from Pope Francis’ death to Leo XIV’s election
This study examines international newspaper coverage of the transition from Pope Francis’ papacy to the election of Leo XIV, analyzing 13 major newspapers from six countries (Argentina, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States ...
Giovanni Tridente +2 more
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Pope Francis the Roman Catholic Church and citizen attitudes towards climate change in Latin America
Studies on the relationship between religious attitudes and attitudes towards climate change and other environmental issues have tended to focus on the United States. While there is good reason to expect such a relationship to exist, our understanding of
Alejandro Ecker +2 more
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The Value of Old Age in the Teaching of Pope Francis
The demographic changes taking place before our eyes regarding the structure of our society show that the proportion of older people is increasing quite rapidly.
Mirosław Brzeziński
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism
ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
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The Unity of the Virtues in a Missionary Key [PDF]
The thesis of the unity of the virtues—one must possess all of the virtues to possess even one of them—was upheld in different forms by Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas.
Kim, Andrew J.
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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
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This article addresses the need for liturgical formation that Pope Francis recently highlighted for the whole Catholic Church in his apostolic letter Desiderio Desideravi. The current American Eucharistic Revival encourages engagement in this. Based on a
Marco Benini
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Robert McKim, ed., Laudato Si’ and the Environment: Pope Francis’ Green Encyclical
Robert McKim, ed., Laudato Si’ and the Environment: Pope Francis’ Green Encyclical (New York: Routledge, 2020), 254 pp, $48.95 (pbk), ISBN: 9780367777210.
Christiana Zenner
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The impact of the media on the reception of social themes in pope Francis’ speeches during World Youth Day in Krakow [PDF]
Przeprowadzone na potrzeby artykułu analizy przemówień papieża Franciszka pokazały, że podejmowane przez niego wątki społeczne nie wpłynęły na poglądy Polaków, ani też nie zmieniły ich postaw.
Przyczyna, Wiesław, Załazińska, Aneta
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