The Catholic Church and The Modern World

2020 ◽  
pp. 210-213
Author(s):  
Cook Chris
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Catholic Church

scholarly journals The Mission of the Catholic Church for the State in the Discourse of “Gosc Niedzielny” during Poland’s Interwar Period

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 188
Author(s):  
Rafał Śpiewak ◽  
Wiktor Widera
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Common Good ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Level Of Involvement ◽  
Historical Reflection ◽  
The Catholic Church

The essence of the Catholic Church implemented in the modern world is of crucial importance for the understanding its mission towards the state, especially when developing appropriate civil attitudes. One sources of cognition is the historical reflection made on an analytical basis of Catholic media content. This article presents the discourse analysis of Gość Niedzielny (i.e., Sunday Guest), which was one of the most important Catholic publications in Poland, during the reconstruction of the Polish statehood. The pro-state mission of the Catholic Church was an expression of responsibility for common good, was nonpartisan and was connected with the promotion of values that condition the social order. It was believed that the condition of the state is determined by the moral form of its citizens and their level of involvement in social life. Christian values were though to secure and protect also the good of non-Catholic citizens. Here, the research and discourse analysis allows us to define the conclusions regarding contemporary relations between Church and the state in Poland. The key thoughts included in the publications of Sunday Guest, have contemporary application and their message is extremely up-to-date.

Papal Efforts Toward Protestant Representation at Trent

1948 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 427-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Kuttner
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sacramental Theology ◽  
Political Realism ◽  
Council Of Trent ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
The One ◽  
The Catholic Church

It is not within the purpose of this paper to appraise the historical significance which the Council of Trent held for the consolidation of Catholic doctrine on all the points of dogmatic and sacramental theology that had been put into question by the religious innovators. Nor shall we examine the role which its measures of canonical legislation played in the great process of spiritual and disciplinary renewal which eventually determined the position of the Catholic Church in the modern world. We propose rather to turn our attention to the great goal which the Council did not reach: the restoration of the one Respublica Christiana, of the Catholic unity which prior to the sixteenth century had been the only conceivable form of Christian religious existence. To the eye of the historian, it is true, the rift in Western Christendom appears quite obviously prepared by the developments of two centuries preceding Luther's challenge. The exile of Avignon; the great schism; the constitutional unrest of the conciliar epoch of Constance and Basel; the political realism by which Renaissance popes had sought above all to consolidate their position as Italian territorial rulers; the growth of the national states and national sovereignties; the ferment of humanistic ideologies—they all were alarming and distressing symptoms of the radical disintegration of mediaeval unity.

Is Personal Dignity Possible Only If We Live in a Cosmos?

2018 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 223-240
Author(s):  
John G. Brungardt ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
Personal Dignity ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Catholic Church

The Catholic Church has increasingly invoked the principle of human dignity as a way to spread the message of the Gospel in the modern world. Catholic philosophers must therefore defend this principle in service to Catholic theology. One aspect of this defense is how the human person relates to the universe. Is human dignity of a piece with the material universe in which we find ourselves? Or is our dignity alien in kind to such a whole? Or does the truth lie somewhere in between? The metaphysics of creation properly locates the human being in the universe as a part, ordered to the universe’s common good of order and ultimately to God. Human dignity is possible only in a cosmos; that this is concordant with modern scientific cosmology is briefly defended in the conclusion.

scholarly journals BERPIJAK DI BUMI – BERPIHAK KEPADA MANUSIA (Mandat dari Gaudium et Spes)

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Paul Budi Kleden
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Gaudium Et Spes ◽  
John Xxiii ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

Gaudium et Spes is a revolutionary document of Vatican II which can still inspire the Church now and in the future. This document is revolutionary in the sense that it deals with problems, issues and ideas that had never before become the agenda of any Council in the Catholic Church. Gaudium et Spes concretizes what John XXIII named aggiornamento, a process of contextualising the Christian heritage, through which the Church opens itself up to the modern world. This document is also revolutionary because it is entirely a product of the conciliar process of the Council itself. This article presents the process of drafting the document and discusses some issues that are relevant for the Church today and in the future. <b>Kata-kata kunci:</b> proses, Gereja, dunia modern, solidaritas, keadilan ekonomi, martabat manusia, perdamaian.

The Moral Freedom of Man and the Determinism of Nature: The Catholic Synthesis of Science and History in the Revue des Questions Scientifiques

1976 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Jo Nye
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Scientific Society ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
Moral Freedom ◽  
The Catholic Church

In 1877 the first issue of the Revue des questions scientifiques, published by the Scientific Society of Brussels, appeared in France and Belgium. The new journal was greeted with disdain and hostility by Emile Littrè and George Wyrouboff, the disciples of Auguste Comte and editors of La philosophie positive. The Scientific Society of Brussels was a Catholic organization, and the positivists' opinion was that ‘If science is spoken of in this assembly, it is in order to organize a veritable crusade against it’. But the highly prejudiced assessment by Littré and Wyrouboff completely misread the goals of the society. At the time, the Catholic Church was en pleine crise both in France and Belgium. Church attendance had declined dramatically in recent years, as had the number of young people entering religious orders. Many Catholic laymen and church officials were becoming convinced that some rapprochment with the modern world and modern science was essential. It was to this difficult task that the Catholics of the Brussels Scientific Society addressed themselves with determination.

scholarly journals “Nada será como antes”. A controvérsia eclesiástica sobre o Sínodo dos Bispos da Amazônia (2017-2019)

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (316) ◽  
pp. 282
Author(s):  
Carlos Eduardo Sell
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
The Self ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Ecological Concern ◽  
Political Disputes ◽  
The Catholic Church

O artigo analisa as controvérsias entre elites eclesiásticas católicas ao longo do processo de preparação do Sínodo Pan-Amazônico entre 2017 e 2019. Na primeira parte são identificados os atores e posicionamentos que emergiram nas disputas políticas em torno do Sínodo, buscando-se mostrar como elas estão implicadas em lutas pela auto-compreensão da Igreja católica enquanto organismo político, além de colocar em discussão estratégias distintas de inserção do catolicismo no mundo moderno. Na segunda parte, a partir da análise do documento que foi o epicentro da disputa (Instrumentum Laboris), argumenta-se que, na sua dimensão intra-eclesial, ele colocou em debate o processo de aprofundamento das reformas democratizantes iniciado com o Concílio Vaticano II e intensificado sob o governo do papa Francisco. Já na sua dimensão extra-eclesial (Igreja/mundo), o texto indica deslocamentos na compreensão e na estratégia de posicionamento da Igreja católica frente ao plano global e sinaliza para um processo que, mediado pela problemática ecológica, incorpora elementos da agenda pós-colonial. Abstract: The article analyzes the controversies among Catholic ecclesiastical elites during the process of preparation of the Pan-Amazon Synod between 2017 and 2019. In the first part we identify the actors and positions that emerged in the political disputes about the Synod, seeking to show how they are implicated in struggles for the self-understanding of the catholic church as a political organism, besides discussing different strategies of insertion of catholicism in the modern world. In the second part, from the analysis of the document that was the epicenter of the dispute (Instrumentum Laboris), it is argued that, in its intra-ecclesial dimension, it put into debate the process of deepening democratizing reforms that began with the Second Vatican Council. and intensified under the rule of Pope Francis. Already in its extra--ecclesial dimension, the text indicates shifts in the understanding and strategy of positioning of the Catholic church in relation to the global plan and points to a process that, mediated by ecological concern, incorporates elements of the postcolonial agenda.Keywords: Catholic church; Pope Francis; Synod; Amazon; Ecology.

The Role of the Charismatic Renewal Movement in Reigniting the Flame of Spirituality in Contemporary Christians

Pneuma ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 77-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reginald Alva
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Western World ◽  
Charismatic Renewal ◽  
Developed Nations ◽  
Renewal Movement ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

Life in the modern world is hectic. Development in technology has diminished the importance of religion in society. Nonetheless, humans are not satisfied with their ultramodern gadgets and are in a continuous pursuit after something more. The advancements in science in the developed nations have not stopped people from the West from being fascinated by eastern spiritualities. Has Christianity, which has traditionally been the religion of the western world, lost its relevance? How can the Catholic Church offer a “lively” spirituality to people who seek meaning in life? The Charismatic Renewal Movement, which began in 1967 in the Catholic Church, has helped millions to rediscover the beauty of Christian faith and has the potential of making Christianity relevant in the modern world. In this article I will examine the role of the Charismatic Renewal Movement in reigniting the flame of spirituality in contemporary Christians. I will base my study on the documents of the Church and the documents of the Charismatic Renewal Movement.

The Christian Hero, Model 1967

Worldview ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 7-11
Author(s):  
Quentin L. Quade
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

"Christ, to be sure, gave His Church no proper mission in the political, economic, or social order, The purpose which He set before her is a religious one." This is a formulation which the Bishops of the Catholic Church asserted in the Conciliar document The Church in the Modern World in the chapter devoted to "The Fostering of Peace and the Promotion of a Community of Nations." From this statement one should not conclude to the political irrelevance of religion. Rather, he should seek further for the precise mode of that relevance; he will find it, I believe, in the religiously enlightened person acting politically.

A Religious Futurism: The Catholic Modernist Crisis in the Maternal Imagery of Umberto Boccioni

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 619-635
Author(s):  
Anna Frey Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Italian Futurism ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Ecclesiastical History ◽  
Religious Significance ◽  
The Catholic Church

In recent years scholars have attempted to reconsider the place of religion within Italian Futurism. A tendency to secularize the avant-garde has ensured that Futurism is often assumed to be in opposition to religion. This paper reassesses this notion by examining the religious dimension of the work of the Futurist artist Umberto Boccioni. In particular, it examines the mother images the artist produced during the early years of the Futurist movement. The paper argues that in Boccioni’s 1912 work Matter (Materia) the maternal figures of the Virgin Mary and the Catholic Church coalesce through a process akin to what Sigmund Freud described as “condensation.” During the years preceding the work’s execution, Boccioni was recording the development of the Catholic Modernist Crisis in his diary. This crisis culminated in 1907 with the papal encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis. At this time, the Catholic Church was experiencing increasing pressure to adapt to new ways of thinking about ecclesiastical history. In this paper, Matter is reread as an investigation into the place of the Catholic Church in the modern world. In seeking to account for the religious significance of Boccioni’s maternal imagery, this paper challenges the claim that the early Futurist movement was wholly anti-Christian in orientation.

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