The family is the oldest and common natural institution and the community of mankind. The unquestionable role of the family stems from the continuous impact on the human being from an early age. It is the family that offers the possibility of development of the personality of an efficient and disabled human being. For a disabled person, the family becomes the most important...
The beauty revealed oneself in two spheres of the one reality: in nature and in culture – but as trancendentalium, beauty as exceeding beyond this reality. This way temporary beauty which is present in nature and culture is leading to Absolute Beauty. Article is presenting specifity of the beauty for nature and culture. So article is presenting the natural, craft and artistic...
The dogmatic formulas are already created by the authors of books of the Bible, afterwards they are appeared in the liturgy and also within the whole tradition of the Church. The most important formulas are that which were created during the first ecumenical councils. They present precise synthesis of the manifested content. They answer for fundamental questions of the Christian...
The necessity of maintaining and storing parish registers is an important part of church administration. This article addresses a canonical aspect of such registers. First the regulations regarding the necessity to maintain parish registers have been discussed. Second different types of such registers which have to be maintained based on universal and particular law have been...
In contemporary culture is emerging a problem, which interest the public opinion – it is about faith in God, which is a challenge for the world. Existing difficulties, never-ending doubts, as well as objections to the Christian conception of life are the causes of departing the XXI century man from God. Requirements of Christianity are seen as too arduous and outdated, and as a...
Literary texts show and introduce people to some useful truths and messages, moral guidelines and warnings, tips concerning the progress, ideals and guiding lights, instructions and models of the decent life. They also provide the important help in the religious education. On the basis of the textbooks for teaching the religion for junior high school from the series “Odsłonić...
The text, which follows the teachings of the Rev. Aleksander Zienkiewicz, a legendary academic chaplain from Wrocław, is an attempt to elicit and discuss his anthropological thought. The first part of the text emphasizes the inseparability of Zienkiewicz’s theology from anthropology. His discussion of God constitutes a discussion of man and, conversely, he never regards man as an...
The scene where Jesus and Nicodemus talk at night is sometimes named a rabbinic discussion. Even if on the literary level we may see certain features of this kind of discussion, in reality it cannot be perceived as such. The used terms ῥαββί (rabbi) and διδάσκαλος (didaskalos) not necessarily mean the same. It should be noted that the first of these words most probably is not yet...
The event connected with the imprisonment of Bishop Thomas I of Wroclaw has been described in chronicles and other sources referring to the history of church in Silesia. The article focuses on the efforts undertaken by Polish Episcopate to defend and release the imprisoned Bishop of Wroclaw Thomas I and to punish Duke Boleslaw II the Horned. The aim of the publication is to...
It is hard for an human being to accept his suffering as a part of a process of spiritual growth. However St. Faustyna proves that identification and union with Jesus through the suffering is beneficial to save the lost souls. All her work on the internal life had been based on the union of her own will with God’s will, and her obedience without her logic and opinions. The Saint...
Theologians do not make use of the term ‘emanation’, since it has connotations of gnosis and pantheism. Careful analysis that takes into account all necessary and sufficient aspects defining the person allows for a more in-depth reflection, thus broadening the Christian understanding of God. The term ‘emanation’ is a suitable one, adequate and necessary at the first stage of...
In the sacrament of penance the sinner surrendering to merciful judgement of God anticipates in a certain way the judgment to which he will be surrendered to at the end of earth’s life. Because, just already now, within this life, the human being has got a possibility to choice between life and death, and following only the way of religious conversion one may enter into the...
In the new, post-war circumstances, the Holy See preferred to sign one concordat with the new German state. However, as this turned out impossible, E. Pacelli, the nuncio, arrived at signing a concordat with Bavaria in 1924, and from 1915 led intensive negotiations towards signing one with Prussia. With the important support of the Prussian episcopate and their president...
Totalitarian systems of the 20th century questioned human freedom. Freedom, almost absolute, was then usurped by dictators manipulating with social structures. Liberal society became an alternative then, and the rights of a individual, realised in open economic space became fundamental. As a result, societies of consumers emerged and they questioned a lot of basic moral rules, in...
God knows the heart of man examining his emotions, feelings, moods, passions, thoughts, the will of the believer, and even his conscience (Rom 8:27). The only proper human response is to take such action regarding the rights granted to him by God as to gain admiration in his eyes. Metaphor of this attitude is the “circumcision of the heart” (Rom 2:28-29), which opposes both...
The Middle Ages in Silesia is a time of great dispute between the bishop and the prince, church – political and legal disputes, which liberated the church from the power of the prince. One of these disputes was between Bishop Thomas II (the second) and the Duke Henry IV (the fourth) Probus. In these big disputes were involved not only the main representatives of power, but also a...