When Poland regained its independence in 1918, there was a need to launch a fight for the health of polish citizens, mainly the elimination of omnipresent tuberculosis. The state was not able to afford the intensive creation of preventive health care system by building medical infrastructure. In such circumstances, many holiday houses, health houses, and even sanatoriums were...
Among manifold symbolic interpretations of the Christian temple, of special importance was the perception of the church as a projection of the reality of Paradise (ecclesia est paradisus). This interpretation was especially popular in medieval monasteries (claustrum est paradisus). The abbey church on the Plan of Saint Gall is presented as Paradise, with the entrance flanked by...
After World War II, the sociopolitical situation in Europe changed. At that time, Poland lost its eastern areas and Volynia. The nuns, who worked there were forced to leave their current institutions and move within the borders of the country. It also concerned the Missionary Sisters of St. Benedict. One of the new institutions chosen by the nuns was Zagórów. It was where, in...
The aim of the study was to analyze the existing differences in the severity of state and trait anxiety between two groups of young people including the sex factor. This research involved two groups of adolescents: youth offenders from correctional facilities for minors and high school students constituting the control group. In total 266 people were assessed. The study used The...
In November 1918, our country regained independence after 123 years of partitions. A new state came into existence of three different statehoods (Prussia, Austria, Russia). Therefore, the process of creating the Polish statehood came across incredibly great problems. Everything was missing: political, economic, legal structures, uniform system of education. The already difficult...
Nowadays, numerous scientific reports point to the increasing phenomenon of addiction in Europe and the USA, thus highlighting the need to cope with this situation. This article begins with a description of addiction from the main diagnostic manuals (DSM-5, ICD-10) and from the perspective of several acknowledged experts. Next, it analyses the occurence of this phenomenon in...
Support system for individuals and families includes numerous institutions and forms, but it demands on-going changes and modifications adjusted to social needs. An important, if not the most important human need, is the need for housing where a human being can function and feel safe. The state responds to human needs in this respect, which is reflected, inter alia, in the...
In this article, we consider the relationship between obedience and freedom in the light of the thought of H. U. von Balthasar. On the example of Mary, the Swiss theologian notes the paradoxical reversal of the interdependence between obedience and individual freedom. Usually, the increase of obedience is associated with the restriction of freedom, whereas, according to Balthasar...
The analysis refers to the consequences of the baptism received in the sphere of the participation in the priestly mission of Christ. It emphasizes the theological and ecclesiastical aspect highlighted by Vatican II and legal consequences of the distribution of sacraments. Baptism and marriage are the only two sacraments in the Catholic Church where the lay faithful can take on a...
The article combines grammar data with historical facts in the matter of Roman censuses. Presence of the define article before the adjective ἀπογραφή suggests a new perspective. Data from Roman Egypt show an acceptable basis, known through grammar, and allow more precise meaning of ἡγεμονεύοντος from Lk 2.2. The census from the time of Jesusʼ birth can therefore be understood as...
Artykuł recenzyjny książki pod redakcją Stefana T. Kwiatkowskiego i Dominiki Walczak, zatytułowana Kompetencje interpersonalne w pracy współczesnego nauczyciela. Książka ukazała się w roku 2017. Dotyczy podstawowych kompetencji zawodowych współczesnych nauczycieli i stanowi przyczynek do pogłębionej dyskusji nad nowoczesnym ich kształceniem.
The present article describes the role of Archbishop Antoni Baraniak in the Polish Episcopate in the last decade of the metropolitan’s life. It is a continuation of the analysis published in 2019 in “Seminare”. Despite the passage of many years since the death of the steadfast bishop, his full biography still has not been written. The paper is aimed at filling this gap in the...
Polish Episcopal Conference involved the bishops of all three rites who jointly served their pastoral functions. The resolutions of the conventions did not have the character of particular law, only bishops could implement them in their dioceses. The conferences were headed by primates of Poland or the bishops with the hierarchically highest ranks. The meetings in Gniezno in 1919...
The author analyzes “Gratulemur in honore” - an office on St. Catherine of Alexandria. The author proved that this is an endemic work, created in the 13th century in Liège or the surrounding areas. It did not, however, spread in Europe. In Poland the only code that includes this (incomplete) office is “Pontificale Plocense”, probably also created in 12th c. in Liège, which...
A linguistic picture of the world is such a vision of reality existing in the minds of people forming a language community which is fixed in words. The results of empirical research presented in this paper lead to the conclusion that no elements of the so-called striptease culture or confessing culture, or the phenomena of de-tabooisation or eroticisation, perceived as inherent...
Violence in relation to each human is classified as a socially reprehensible act in civilized societies, especially when it affects pregnant women. An analysis of the world literature allows us to assume that the scale of violence against this social group varies from 0.9% to 29% (depending on the country, the adopted definition of the phenomenon and methods of assessment) as...
Support offered to ill people by H. Chrzanowska had a pedagogical dimension which found its manifestation in her educational activity among nurses, her direct support offered to ill people and care for her own development. A method which she used at work fell into the category of meeting, dialogue and real involvement. Moreover, axiology and a personalistic reference which...
This article presents genesis of unconsecrated women’s rights in the Catholic Church from XX century and shows their importance from the perspective of social pedagogy. Women’s rights in Catholic Church can be analised from the perspective of such pedagogic concepts as: educational environment, social identification, empowerment, social forces.
Based on the work of Gilbert Keith Chesterton and Clive Staples Lewis, the author analyzes the role of humor in the Christian spirituality and the connection between humor and other values such as love, humility, freedom and truth. One of the conclusions is that both writers regarded and showed humor as an indicator, of the authenticity and depth are lived and realized in the...