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Interview with Military Chaplain in Reserve Captain Mgr. Jakub Holík. Interview conducted by Štěpán Tretera
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U ovom radu želim izložiti kako je bosanski franjevac Juraj Dragišić (1444–1520), izbjeglica i prognanik iz Bosne, za vrijeme svoga cijeloga života branio izbjegle i progonjene, a to je činio odlučno i neustrašivo. Branio je kardinala Bessariona, Židove koji su doseljavali u Firencu, židovske knjige (zapravo, branitelja njihovih knjiga, glasovitoga njemačkog humanista i hebraista Johannesa Reuchlina), Giovannija Pica della Mirandolu (jednoga od najučenijih renesansnih filozofa i osumnjičenika za herezu) i Girolama Savonarolu (velikoga reformatora Katoličke Crkve, koji je također bio optužen za herezu). Iz Dragišićeva angažmana za izbjegle i progonjene zaključujem da je on bio vrhunski kršćanski humanist, čiji je sav život ispunjen temeljnim evanđeoskim principom što ga je formulirao Isus Krist: “Zaista, kažem vam, što god učiniste jednom od ove moje najmanje braće, meni učiniste!” (Mt 25, 40) A upravo se ovom rečenicom izražava vrhunac kršćanskoga humanizma. Prije pristupa temi valja sažeto predstaviti Dragišićev život i njegovo djelovanje.
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The article discusses the problem of digital addiction, encountered especially among young people. Towards such behaviour, morale and Christian spirituality proposes a control over the time spent in the virtual space and on the accessed contents, which is a proof of digital discernment. The Christian faith wants man to not dependent on any form of material and ephemeral pleasure, but to live spiritually free, in the Truth.
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In this article, the author analyzes personal names of the parish of Kneginec from its foundation 1789 to 1900, based on available registers of baptisms. Determines the fund and the number of male and female names separately and tries to determine the motivation for choosing individual names. Points to the importance of the diversity of the name fund of a rural parish community. He also listed the most numerous personal names and hypocoristic forms. As a contribution to the article, author presents two tables which contains all recorded personal names of the parish (and their derivatives) grouped by gender, alphabetically sorted with the year of their first mention and their relative shares.
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The article examines post-baptismal catechumenate as a pastoral institution that was developed after Second Vatican Council. It explores post-baptismal catechumenate’s relationship to baptismal catechumenate as it existed in the early Church and was restored by Vatican II. The article discusses post-baptismal catechumenate as part of the Church’s attempts to find solution to the problem of “baptised unbelievers” that occurred in the second part of the 20th century. It analyses the magisterial texts that address relationship between valid sacraments and their spiritual consequences. Finally, the article shows ambiguity of the concept of post-baptismal catechumenate in the documents of the Catholic magisterium.
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The Christian East is extremely diverse. Some Churches of the Christian East have developed extensive iconographic art along with the theory of this art, while others have not. The Church of Constantinople developed patterns in the field of iconography, including Marian iconography. Byzantine Marian icons can be divided into four groups: (1) Marian feasts; (2) theological icons; (3) symbolic icons; (4) liturgical icons. A characteristic feature of theological icons is the focus on the close relationship between Mary and Christ (God). These icons include the types: Kyriotissa, Hodegetria, Eleusa, Platytera. These are the most important basic icons of Mary discussed in the article.
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The aim of this paper is to present the Library of the Franciscan Monastery in Sinj as yet another cultural heritage institution which not only represents the heritage value of the Franciscan Monastery in Sinj, the town of Sinj and the Cetina River region, but also the wider Croatian public. The paper analyses the needs and the circumstances in which the library was established and developed, the reasons behind the development and the impact it has had on the region. Was the only purpose of the library to provide support to pastoral and liturgical activities? The library is the part of a large group of heritage institutions throughout the Republic of Croatia where valuable library material, incunabula, manuscripts and the latest book editions are kept. These institutions face the same issues and challenges as many other libraries of the same type. The monastery library holds diverse library material. It is home to over eighty thousand books, a collection of incunabula, around four hundred and fifty periodical publications, the Croatica Collection, music collections, maps and atlases which are mostly used for educational purposes as well as a large number of manuscripts and archive material. The overview of the history of inception and establishment of the library in 1687 and the connection with the monastery is based on written sources about the library and those found in the library, on the examination of in-situ material (in-house material) as well as on the information that the late friar Josip Ante Soldo, a long-time librarian, and friar Mirko Marić, the current manager of the library, obtained by word-of-mouth. The lack of storage space, which is indeed below the prescribed standards valid in the 20th century, required the material (mostly books) to be stored in boxes which made the numerous material unavailable. Individual Franciscan monks are responsible for the preservation of the rich library holdings for three centuries because they took care of the library and procured the material depending on the circumstances and needs. Thus, they have contributed to the preservation of the partly damaged but valuable library heritage to this day. The Franciscan monks of Sinj played an important role in the development of culture and education in Sinj and the Cetina River region. During the Croatian National Revival, in 1854, they opened the first grammar school in Croatian language in Dalmatia. In 1867, together with other supporters of the Revival movement, they opened the Public Reading Room of Cetina Region within the premises of the monastery which had no connection to the monastery library. The literature which deals with the history and the material of the Library of the Franciscan Monastery in Sinj is scarce. The largest number of data was collected upon the examination of the holdings, various book indexes, catalogues and manuscripts kept in the library.
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Report from the scientific symposium In the service of life and love, Krakow, October 28th, 2021
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The press, as a medium of mass communication of news and specific ideological and educational content, was to raise the level of social awareness of the population, its culture and knowledge, including religion and the Catholic Church, in the spirit of the prevailing ideology. The image of the Holy See and the popes from 1972–1989 emerging from the texts under discussion shows these entities as political institutions. At that time, words were selected, quoted and even paraphrased in press articles from the public appearances of popes and representatives of the Roman Curia so that they were consistent with the views of the Polish United Workers’ Party or served its propaganda. At the level of the highest hierarchy in particular, allies were perceived, and attempts were also made to present them in this way. An analysis of the texts devoted to the Church showed that the Church was treated as too serious and independent a force to openly criticize it. Therefore, especially in the 1980s, the perspective of dialogue with the Church was adopted. In criticism, the Church was sometimes presented in opposition to the communist state, and this concerned, inter alia, hierarchy of values, social rights, references to countries with other political systems.
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The article focuses on the Christological foundations of the problem of will, as they are set out mainly in the theological and polemical works of St. Maximus the Confessor and the Dispute with Pyrrhus. The doctrine of will is considered, marking the contribution of St. Maximus in the development and finalization of the Chalcedonian Christological concept. In the context of this exposition, various scientific interpretations are presented as to whether there is a change in his position on the question of the existence of a gnomic will in Christ and the development of his doctrine of one action, concluding that the Venerable does not essentially change positions. The historical ground and preconditions for the emergence of the Monothelite doctrine and its organic connection with the Monophysite theology are outlined. In conclusion, the problem of the deification of the human will, as a consequence of the perichoresis of nature in the Person of the Savior and his eschatological dimensions, is considered.
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The fate of the so-called Old Rectory in Žilina, situated next to the monumental Church of the Holy Trinity, was emotionally charged, controversial and, in the end, very sad. The Rectory’s architecture and construction reflected both the needs of its various owners, and many of the dramatic events that had affected the city throughout its history. Despite repeated damage by fire, the faith community always found the strength and energy to restore the building and bring it back to life. Up until 1989, the Rectory was an integral part of the community’s spiritual life, and even after then, its upper storey continued to serve as the Church’s pastoral centre and a meeting place for Christian youth activities, while the ground floor housed the city’s Tourist Information Board and a popular restaurant. The Rectory was declared a national cultural monument in 2008, just as a developer was taking an interest in the site on which it stood. At this point, the local Church authorities decided it was not worthy of salvation and swiftly lodged an appeal against the decision to protect it, downplaying the building’s historical and architectural value, suggesting that since its original Late Medieval/ Early Modern features had been lost to fire 1678, the current building, reconstructed in 1777, was of no significant value. While a decision on the appeal was still pending, the Rectory was demolished, in the middle of Saturday night, July 12, 2008. The ground on which it stood was completely excavated within a week, allowing no possibility of recovery archaeological research. Eventually, a shopping centre was built over the place it once stood. This article discusses the controversial processes that led to the building’s abrupt demolition, and explores the failure to bring charges against those responsible for its destruction, which took place contrary to the Monuments Act.
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Józef Depowski was born on 29 November 1879 in Ropczyce in a family of farmers, in 1899 he graduated the classical gymnasium in Rzeszów and began studies of philosophy, theology and spiritual formation in the Theological Seminary in Tarnów, which he was obliged to abandon due to health problems. From 1907-1916 he studied in the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy of the Swiss University of Fribourg, where in 1912 he defended his doctoral thesis on the subject of the history of art. In 1912 he became incardinated to the Armenian Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv and in 1913 he took holy orders. After his return to Galicia he undertook the job of a teacher and a catechizer in the gymnasiums in Zamość (1916-1917) and in Ropczyce (1923-1930). He was a teacher and an educator of the youth, he taught several subjects in secondary schools, he served as the headmaster of a gymnasium, the chaplain of a nursery, he was a spiritual leader, the pastoral minister of workers, the initiator of social undertakings, the author of scientific publications. From 1936-1939 he was the administrator the Armenian parish in Tyśmienica. He passed away on 8 November 1939 in Ropczyce, where he was also buried.
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Rev. Teofi Lewicki was born on the 10th of October, 1879 in Laszki Murowane. He was a graduate of Gymnasium in Sanok. He finished the formation of priesthood in Seminary in Przemyśl. He got the priestly orders on 31st of January,1899. Then he worked as a vicar in Wesoła (1899-1902), Stojańce (1902-1903), Laszki (1903-1904), Rakszawa (1904) and in Łąka (1904-1910). In the year of 1911 he became a parish priest in Trzeboś. In 1922 he became a vice dean a Sokołów. Apart from his common priestly work, he also engaged in a church renovation and plenty of social works. Rev. Teofil Lewicki retired in 1945. He died on the 21st of September, 1952.
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Since the beginning of the Church, chant has played a pivotal role in its liturgic and communitarian activity. Throughout time, chant has constituted an efficient mechanism of Christian education because of its eminent theological message of ingraining a cult life of praying, being also an instrument for combating heresy and every other teaching that is strange to the Christianity found in the Church and to the Christian community. By selecting and substantiating certain elements of the profane through the minds of the Holy Fathers, the Church managed to create new musical and literary forms in order to express its teachings. The Romanian Church assumed the holy tradition of the Eastern Church by preserving and harvesting it up to present day. Education in Romania was initially developed and carried out in Church, and the singers and clerics of the church were at the same time teachers and guides for the Romanian people. Introducing a repertoire of songs found within the clerical space into the Romanian education curriculum, chants found in the Holy Liturgy, as well as Christmas carols, highly contribute to the development and enlightenment of the minds of children and youth, while also cultivating their spiritual purity.
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