Artykuł przedstawia zadania pastoralne parafii w Polsce w dziedzinie ekologii. Z powodu degradacji środowiska naturalnego cierpią przede wszystkim ludzie. Ponieważ to działalność człowieka przyczynia się do dewastacji natury, dlatego najbardziej skuteczne w ochronie środowiska będą działania podejmowane w obrębie parafii, których „domem” jest terytorium, na którym zamieszkują jej...
Until the Second Vatican Council, Gregorian chant was the only type of sacred song classified as the liturgical monody. Currently, the liturgical monody covers various genres of music, from Gregorian chants to contemporary compositions contained in manifold liturgical books. Preserved manuscripts provide a source of knowledge about the epoch, ways of worshipping God and the...
This study focuses on the question of if and in what sense Origen can be considered as the source of the Evagrian teaching of the eight passionate thoughts. Origen is his source in the indirect sense, as the terminological inspiration of particular passionate thoughts. Evagrius has taken over from the New Testament the three so-called fundamental passionate thoughts (gluttony...
In recent years we have observed rapid aging of societies. An important role in maintaining high quality of life as regards seniors is played by proper medical care as well as physical and mental activity. The aim of the present research was to determine the role of participating in organized forms of recreational activity in the process of successful aging. The conducted...
The subject of the article is a reflection devoted to the limits of freedom in tourism, focusing on the attitudes of tourists moving on the verge of acceptable and unacceptable behavior from a social and moral point of view. The attitude of tourists has the form of egoistic hedonism that can take the form of natural behavior for tourism practice, be gentle and acceptable or take...
There is no single definition of social realism, nor is there a single name - either in Europe or in the world, for the entire propaganda and artistic movement. Technically speaking, the name of socialist realism is not widely used in Russia itself, but its role is difficult to overestimate in the birth of the new myth, a new transcultural code that grew nearly 10 years after the...
In this publication I present a fragment of the results of my doctoral thesis, in which assuming in the sociological perspective that I am dealing with an example or a form of one of five types of adaptation to the situation of anomie named by the American sociologist Robert K. Merton: “retreatism’’, on the example of 24 Japanese Hikikomori clients, described a problem being at...
The paper presents phenomenological and hermeneutical approach of human action in 20th century. There were two important cultural phenomena in the twentieth century. On the one hand, the growing expansion of technopoly, which based its operation on instrumental rationality and therefore affected destructively the spiritual realm of man, was growing, on the other hand, there were...
The main aim of this article is to analyze the transition from communism to post-communism in Eastern Bloc countries after 1989. Post-communism in Central and Eastern Europe gradually transformed into various forms of democracy. The political project implemented in post-communist societies is a selective kind of liberalism, which entailed a number of negative consequences...
The aim of the article is to determine the place of patriotism among other universal values and a philosophical reflection on its current formula. The analysis is based on the classical philosophy of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, J. Maritain, E. Gilson, J. Woroniecki, J. M. I. Bocheński, M. A. Krąpiec and John Paul II. The article consists of two parts. Part 1 poses several...
The aim of this article is to present the research problem of the reconstruction and presentation of the axiological layer of the ethical and social teachings of John Paul II, which is implicitly included in his papal writings and documents. The innovative nature of this research results from the fact that until now none of the known publications of his teachings have...
The present paper raises the issue of social insurance for the clergy in the Catholic Church. The first part provides the historical background, norms of the 1917 Code of Canon Law and indications of the Second Vatican Council. The next part discusses the current decrees of canon law and solutions adopted in Poland. At present, the Church has abandoned the beneficial system...
The present article raises the issue of the methodological status of the Church’s social doctrine from its beginnings, namely, from the social teaching of Leo XIII, to the Second Vatican Council. In the first part, the author highlights the substantial role of the Magisterium in constituting the Church’s social doctrine. The second part, presents an analysis of the key social...
The anthropological and ethical disputes in some conservative Catholic circles often refer to the problem of gender equality, particularly in the educational process. They lead to a confrontation between traditional communities, on the one hand, and on the other hand, open or liberal ones. In this context, the article aims to indicate (1) the anthropological and ethical...
The article explains the concept of a spiritual experience in the context of a broadly understood experience. The author highlights the anthropological aspect of symbols and links them with human spiritual consciousness. The article concentrates on symbols occurring in the Bible and their use in symbolic acts performed by the prophets and by Jesus Christ. It shows the spiritual...
Both in the past and today an act of bearing witness to faith in God through martyrdom has been a unique sign and testimony of love for Christ who himself was obedient to the Father usque ad mortem. It is at the same time a clear judgment against those cultures, which acknowledge odium fidei. In his moral encyclical Veritatis Splendor John Paul II points to several arguments in...
Numerous passages of the Book of Revelations, beginning with the prologue (Rev. 1), through letters to the seven Churches (Rev. 2-3), to the vision of the Heavenly Jerusalem (Rev. 21), accentuate the image of the Church as well as the role of God’s word and the issuing necessity to preach it. Those themes found their reflection in the Commentary on the Apocalypse, composed by...
Mulierum Schola Gregoriana Clamaverunt Iusti is a group with a 10-year history of promoting sacred music – the oldest monodic tradition of the Western Church. In addition to compositions from the Gregorian repertoire, the group chooses also prepolifonic works, including later compositions inspired by Gregorian chant. The proposed interpretation is based on the oldest available...
Artykuł prezentuje pierwszą próbę powołania polskiego centralnego instytutu archeologicznego mającą miejsce w latach 1919-1923. Autor prezentuje główne projekty instytutu dyskutowane w środowisku polskich archeologów oraz stara się wyjaśnić przyczyny upadku idei powołania instytutu na tle rozłamu w polskim środowisku archeologicznym.
W czasie niewoli narodowej oraz w dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym rosła symboliczna rola Gniezna, religijna i narodowa. Symbolika ta skupiała się wokół katedry i wyraziła się w upamiętnianiu tablicami i pomnikami ważnych osób i wydarzeń, w publikacjach książkowych o charakterze historycznym oraz w uroczystościach religijnych. W czasie zaborów Niemcy starali się ograniczać...
Ludvig van Beethoven, well-known in music circles mainly due to his instrumental achievements, was indeed vividly interested in vocal-instrumental field. The focal point of his studies of the works of his predecessors , baroque and classicism masters, was the interrelation between the text and the score. The first Klangrede study was the oratorio entitled Christ on the Mount of...
Since the beginning of their foundation, the Salesians have placed great emphasis on educating young people by developing their passions and interests. The theater has always been present in Salesian work. Today, there are still groups that put emphasis on this form of education. This refers to schools, oratories or student theaters. It is noteworthy that, despite the socio...
Evaluation culture in Poland is still in its initial phase. We are still far from Anglo-Saxon models of socializing evaluation studies, in which both the researcher - the evaluator and the respondents, managers and others involved have the impact on the design and the course of the research. Social evaluation is a difficult research model, requiring the inclusion of diverse...
Starting from the actual situation of a world today, the article analyzes a new religious culture characterized by multi-religiosity and inter-religiosity. The approach to this new phenomenon is however interreligious, in which metaphorically, every religion assumes the "colours of all cultures". In this reality, the transition from the religion of Italians to Italy of religions...
W artykule przedstawiono badania przeprowadzone z udziałem 501 uczniów gimnazjum z miasta Frosinone, w regionie Lazio. W złożonym problemie związanym z przemocą szkolna i cyberprzemocą widoczny jest prymat wirtualnych uwarunkowań, podkreślanych tradycyjnymi metodami, często w ciągłości z formą elektroniczną. Badanie pokazuje, że 12-latkowie bardziej angażują się w sytuacje...