Democraţia: context exigent al activităţii pastorale. Promovarea „Drepturilor Omului” – „parte” a misiunii/pastoralei Bisericii?
Democracy: exigent context of the pastoral activity. Promoting “Human Rights”- “part” of the Church’s present mission/pastoral?

Summary/Abstract: Democracy: exigent context of the pastoral activity. Promoting “Human Rights”- “part” of the Church’s present mission/pastoral? There is no such thing as an “ontological alliance” between democracy and the ethical relativism, as some detractors of the democratic organization form of society tried to accredit. However, there is “a” truth, as well as “some” truths of democracy, in the sense that democratic regimes are a “guardian” of social harmony, at the risk of weakening the tension of the pursuit of the unique and supreme truth, the metaphysical one. This is the very reason why democracy operates a well-established distinction between “the dignity of the persons” and the “truth of the ideas” they proclaim. The persons must be respected, even though the positions they sustain temporarily are erroneous. The disquietude whether “Truth = fanaticism = intolerance” constitutes a definitive subconscious equation for democracy or not, finds itself a comfortable answer. The second part of our study regards a brief theological reading of the vast problematic of the Human Rights, inspired by the historical pathway of Western Catholicism. The code of human rights constitutes an established form of juridical and political coagulation of the “Global Community” in the contemporary epoch. From the perspective of the Western Catholic pastoral, promoting Human Rights is an integrant part of the Church’s mission in today’s world. Between “Human Rights ” and “God’s rights” there is only an apparent opposition, as the universality of human rights is rooted in the creation of man “in God’s image”(Genesis 1, 26-27) and in the universal salvation accomplished by Christ the Savior through His Death and Resurrection, events that exclude any competition between “Human Rights ” and “God’s rights”.

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