Etyka małżeńska w nauczaniu moralnym Piusa XII
The problem of birth control was not one of the fundamental challenges that the Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops would take.
Piotr Skiba
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The African social question: A challenge to the African church in light of the two synods on Africa
The First Synod of Catholic Bishops on Africa took place in April 1994 in the wake of the Rwandan genocide. That horrendous fratricide has left a dark spot in the history of Catholicism in Africa where “the blood of tribalism is thicker than the water ...
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The Synod of Bishop Leon Wałęga. Preparation and Proceedings
In the 27th year of Bp. Leon Wałęga’s office in the Diocese of Tarnów, he held the first diocesan synod in the history of the diocese. According to CIC/17, a synod should be convoked every ten years. Such a synod should be convoked by the bishop to the cathedral church and only he can preside over it.
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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The Vatican’s Test Through Women, Gender, and Sexual Abuse in the Context of the Synod on Synodality
The Roman Catholic Church faces a number of contemporary problems that are also partly global issues. The place of women in the Church, cases of sexual abuse, and the LGBTQ+ movement are some of these current issues for which the Vatican is trying to ...
Osman Şahin
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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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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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MISSIONARY BROTHERHOOD AT THE PRINTING HOUSE OF ST. JOB OF POCHAEV IN LADOMIROVA IN THE CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS DURING THE SECOND PERIOD OF ITS EXISTENCE (1934–1945). PART 2: LIFE AND LABOURS OF THE BROTHERHOOD IN THE WAR YEARS. MINUTES OF THE SPIRITUAL COUNCIL MEETINGS, NOS. 171–231 (1942–1944) AND NOS. 1–2 (1945) [PDF]
The second part of the publication is devoted to the final — wartime period of the activity of the Typographical Monastic Brotherhood in Ladomirova, when the main dream of its founder was realised — the permanent work for the revival of the Orthodox ...
Alexander K. Klementiev
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Synoden schaffen Räume: Metropolen, Diözesen und Pfarreien in den Synodalkanones des 9. Jahrhunderts [PDF]
This study on »space in canon law« investigates the concepts of provincial, diocesis and parrocchia in the synodal decisions and the capitularies of bishops in the ninth century.
Wilfried Hartmann
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Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983
In 1983 on Waitangi Day, nine Pākehā Christian protesters (including Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist ministers) were arrested and charged with disorderly behaviour for interrupting the morning church service at Waitangi. In solidarity with Māori activists and wider protests, they sought to draw attention to the longstanding failure of the ...
Michael Mawson
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