The Catholic Ethics collection focuses on moral theology and includes Catholic social teaching, and various applied ethical subjects, such as medical and sexual ethics. It opens a large scope on moral virtues and moral doctrines.

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  • Immanuel Kant’s idea of radical evil as a systematic and terminological problem

    Anna Szyrwińska-Hörig (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 2023-12-01)
    The paper investigates the systematic connection between Kantian concept of radical evil and radical indeterministic idea of freedom. According to the presented thesis the systematically relevant interpretation of the radical evil concept requires considering not only philosophical ideas Kant`s but also the historic background in which they were formulated. Particularly the specific situation of German philosophic terminology in the 17th and early 18th Century will be acknowledged as one of the most significant factors influencing the development of the radical evil concept. For the sake of methodological precision of the presented analysis, the differentiation between thick and thin concept of evil will be introduced.
  • O Caminho da Cura Interior Adesão Religiosa e Reinvenção Pessoal, na Conexão: Subjetividade e Nova Postura Ética

    Araújo, Sérgio de; http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4780443J6; Fonseca, Maria Tereza Lousa da; Miguel, Walderez Loureiro; http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4728213T6; Jordão, Neila Maria Abranches (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de GoiásCiências HumanasBRPUC GoiásCiências da Religião, 2016-07-27)
    O que se vai ler centra-se no estudo dos motivos
 que impulsionam as pessoas a se decidirem pela adesão à Renovação
 Carismática Católica.
 Trata-se de discussão interdisciplinar na compreensão do processo por que
 passa o sujeito na dinâmica da adesão. É, pois, com os instrumentos das
 ciências sociais e da psicologia, bem como os da psicanálise freudiana, que se
 empreende esse trabalho, por entender que as categorias dessa abordagem
 teórica, se complementam para o entendimento da adesão na sua amplitude
 total. A subjetividade consciente e inconsciente incentivando a adesão e a nova
 postura ética, como conseqüência do processo, constituem a força motora do
 estudo.
 Assim, o homem dialético de Freud e Durkheim, na sua parcialidade de
 fragilidade e potência, determina o trabalho empírico e as conclusões
 analíticas.
 Discute-se a motivação subjetiva como a força de atração, determinante do
 trânsito religioso para a RCC e a permanência do fiel nesse grupo, que é
 processual. Narram-se as identificações realizadas, as identidades renovadas,
 as auto-imagens redefinidas, para resultar em nova opção ética. Identifica-se o
 homem que vive esse processo, na sua dicotomia de fragilidade e reatividade,
 do desamparo e atitude onipotente. Frágil, porque sofredor e reativo na sua
 força moral, individual e coletiva, como vê Durkheim. Constitucionalmente
 desamparado e se defendendo disso com a sua pulsão megalômana, na
 concepção freudiana. Esse homem quer alívio para seu sofrimento e busca na
 RCC, cura para seus males.
 A abordagem da oferta carismática se volta para a possibilidade de
 responder às expectativas dos fiéis. Reflete-se sobre as transformações dos
 adeptos e possíveis pontos de intersecção entre a terapêutica da RCC e as
 psicoterapias convencionais da psicologia.
 No empenho para compreender o fenômeno da reconstrução do sujeito, a
 partir da adesão ao movimento renovador carismático, relata-se a contribuição
 que a psicologia pode dar a esse estudo, bem como, a possibilidade de receber
 subsídios para a sua tarefa de elucidar a dimensão psíquica do homem.
  • Wiek XIX, Rok XVI (LVIII) 2023

    Genevray, Françoise (Zarząd Główny Towarzystwa Literackiego im. Adama MickiewiczaInstytut Badań Literackich, 2023)
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  • La legislación laica desbordada. El anticlericalismo durante la Segunda República

    Barrios Rozúa, Juan Manuel (UNED - Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 2024-02-21)
    Las iglesias, conventos y otros bienes religiosos objeto de numerosos ataques iconoclastas durante la Segunda República, sufriendo el patrimonio histórico eclesiástico importantes pérdidas. Suele afirmarse que la política de los gobiernos republicano-socialistas hacia la Iglesia fue de una gran torpeza al desatar un conflicto que la debilitó. Partiendo del estudio de dos diócesis, las de Guadix-Baza y Granada, éste artículo trata de refutar esa opinión tan extendida. No fue tanto el anticlericalismo de muchos de los ministros y políticos más destacados de la izquierda, como la gran presión popular a la que estaban sometidos --en particular los ataques iconoclastas--, la que determinó la adopción de medidas laicizadoras en un intento, finalmente fallido, de encauzar el choque cotidiano y muchas veces violento de las clases populares con una Iglesia alineada con las derechas.
  • Adult to Adult: One Historian's Reading of the Vatican Report on Theodore McCarrick

    Loyola University of Chicago; John M., McManamon (HAL CCSD, 2024-01-21)
  • Michael Novak e la sua lotta alla teologia della liberazione: l’originalità di un cattolico liberale

    Mingardi, Alberto; Mingardi, Alberto (country:IT, 2017-06)
    Questo saggio passa in rassegna alcuni dei numerosi contributi di Michael Novak (1933-2017), fra i massimi esponenti della riflessione liberale classica all'interno del mondo cattolico. In particolare, la comprensione di Novak della figura imprenditoriale e la sua battaglia intellettuale contro la teologia della liberazione sono ripercorsi sinteticamente, come contributi al tempo schiettamente originali, e che hanno contributo a determinarne la fortuna.
  • Feic! Arse! Drink! Girls! Father Ted in the development of post-colonial Irish identity

    Thomas Wakely (17955823) (2024-02-13)
    This dissertation examines the formation of Irish national identity through the satirical reflection of the television show, Father Ted. In this analysis, an overview of identity through objects and performances is used to define the modes in which a nation can reflect on certain issues that are presented to them, with knowledge of a culture in which they exist, to correct undesirable aspects and retain others that are cherished. This research will be contrasted alongside three episodes in which the most prominent social critiques occur, and which coincide with real Irish events. The examples analysed showcase the power of satire to open discourse on a topic and allow a people to decide based on their acceptance of the satire as reflectory of themselves or those who exist within their identity. This dissertation is structured around three topics, sexual abuse within the Catholic Church and its institutions, Irish masculinity and morality dictation. Within these three topics, I contrast the satire utilised to open discourse on the topic, how this satire is received in terms of national identity and the real events which underlined the comedy.
  • Το βάπτισμα των χριστιανών κατά το Unitatis Redintegratio της β΄ βατικανής συνόδου: δογματική διερεύνηση από Ορθόδοξη άποψη

    Heers, Peter; Χιρς, Πέτρος (Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki (AUTH)Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης (ΑΠΘ), 2013)
    The place of Baptism in the new ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council as it is formulated in the Conciliar texts, Decree on Ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio) and also the Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium), is examined in two parts: (1) Key Aspects of the Historical Development of the Roman Catholic Teaching on Baptism and the Church and (2) Baptism and the Church in Unitatis Redintegratio. The potential of baptism to be the key which will open the door to unity was not fully acknowledged until the Second Vatican Council. With this council’s recognition of both the validity and efficacy of non-Roman Catholic baptism, and an already existing ecclesiastical unity, albeit imperfect, all eyes were set on baptism. In spite of the extensive ecumenical literature on the subject, scholars have neglected to examine important inconsistencies, historical and ecclesiological, which exist in the conciliar document of the Council on the subject, Unitatis Redintegratio, as well the historical and theological road which led to this document. In other words, premature theological conclusions have been reached and even celebrated without due consideration of the Patristic and Orthodox outlook. This paper fills this gap by presenting a critical examination of the place and understanding of baptism in the unity of the Church as expounded in the Decree on Ecumenism, Unitatis Redintegratio. This critique likewise contributes to a fuller understanding of the Orthodox view of the place of baptism in the unity of the Church.
  • Etična razsežnost medosebnih odnosov v luči personalistične etike Karola Wojtyłe in Teologije telesa Janeza Pavla II.

    Globokar, Roman; Perčič, Martin
    V doktorski disertaciji z naslovom Etična razsežnost medosebnih odnosov v luči personalistične etike Karola Wojtyłe in Teologije telesa Janeza Pavla II. obravnavamo razumevanje prepleta antropologije in etike, kot ga Karol Wojtyła oziroma Janez Pavel II. razvija v svoji personalistični antropologiji in etiki ter Teologiji telesa. Predstavili smo kontekst, v katerem se je oblikovala filozofija in teologija Karola Wojtyłe oziroma Janeza Pavla II. Obširneje smo predstavili njegovo srečanje z Janezom od Križa (1542–1591), ki je zaznamovalo nadaljevanje njegovega študija. Pri tem smo se osredotočili na njegovo disertacijo, v kateri je obravnaval dela Janeza od Križa. Nadalje smo orisali sodobno filozofsko percepcijo človeka, ki je prav tako zaznamovala Wojtyłovo misel
  • O que nunca se diz ao Papa

    Curado, Manuel (Zéfiro, 2018-03)
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  • The educational-pastoral project of liberation intellectuals and their dissemination strategies in Latin America

    Valério, Mairon Escorsi (Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2023-12-30)
    This article discusses, from the historiography of liberation theology, its definition as a movement of transnational religious intellectuals in a network, which repositions itself, in favor of an educational-pastoral project of awareness and popular mobilization from the historical context of authoritarian resurgence in the 1970s. It analyzes the tactics and strategies of diffusion of its formulations from the mapping of the role of a set of publishers and publications whose target public oscillated between ecclesiastical, academic and militant sectors, evidencing the ambivalent nature of liberation theology, because even organizing itself from hybrid ecumenical centers did not break the clerical profile of pastoral bias of its speech and actions.
  • Agreeing to disagree

    Heywood, Paolo (University of Chicago Presshttp://dx.doi.org/10.14318/hau5.2.018HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2015-10-06)
    In 2012 the Bologna chapter of We Are Church, a group of lay liberal Catholics who lobby the Vatican to adopt a more progressive position on various issues, including homosexuality, sought to pursue a dialogue with the city’s LGBTQ community. The relative success of those conversations depended upon We Are Church persuading their anticlerical interlocutors, whose antipathy toward the Vatican runs deep, that they were an entirely different entity to the Catholic “hierarchy.” But in prevailing in this endeavor, they created a further obstacle for themselves: the more convincingly they distinguished themselves from orthodox Catholicism, the less convincing was their eponymous declaration of “We Are Church”; the further they traveled toward the positions held by their LGBTQ activist counterparts, the more likely they were to be dismissed as unrepresentative of Catholicism, and thus irrelevant. Thus in this case ethics across borders depends not only upon finding affinities and sustaining differences but also upon finding affinities over how to sustain differences. Similarly, I suggest that debates in anthropology surrounding radical difference may benefit from attending to the ways in which such difference itself can be the subject of agreement or disagreement.
  • The Prophetic Character of Christian-Oriented Sexual Freedom in the Conjugal Relationship in the Thinking of Moral Theologians

    Inocent-Mária Vladimír Szaniszló (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 2023-12-01)
    In 2023, people on the European continent find themselves recovering after several social upheavals caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as several military conflicts, especially the war in Ukraine. At the same time, however, there is a significant wave of migration to the so-called safe (socially secure) countries of Western Europe. Despite the significant problems that this migration causes for a politically polarized Europe, Western European, but also other countries are experiencing an astoundingly strong demand for labor (e.g. Germany openly talks about the economic need for up to 400,000 jobs per year). This year marks the 55th anniversary of the publication of the long-awaited encyclical of Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae, which rejected all methods of artificial contraception. In this contribution, the author attempts to look at the problems of the culture of life in European space through the lens of several ethical and philosophical thoughts. This contribution, therefore, seeks to reflect both upon the rejection of Humanae vitae by modern Western society, as well as consider the propositions of future steps that will help stabilize European society, including the concepts of economics, family, and values according to the said encyclical.
  • The Catholic Social Teaching as the Ideological Basis of the Sinarquista Movement in Mexico

    Aleksandr Glazov (Russian Academy of Science. Institute of World History, 2023-11-01)
    The article defines the place of the Catholic social teaching in the ideology of the National Synarchist Union, which was founded in May 1937 and served as the mass base of the counterrevolutionary and right-wing conservative movement in Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s. Considering society as a single organism that needs protection from all encroachments of leftist forces, the Sinarquists turned to be supporters of corporatism and cessation of class struggle. They believed that private property is the basis of human freedom and the means for practical realization of the principle of the common good. They also sought a fair distribution of national wealth, as well as to build a society of propertied and free people.
  • Between Novak and Maritain: The discussion on the capitalist economy in Catholic thought

    Hoevel Carlos (Sciendo, 2023-12-01)
    Although Novak recognizes himself as a disciple of Maritain, especially in his thesis on the Christian origins of democracy, the differences between the two in their views on the capitalist economy are evident. However, in his famous book, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, and in other previous works, Novak tries to show some possible bridges between Maritain’s thought and the virtues of American capitalism. This attempt is actually part of a larger project by Novak: that of showing the essential compatibility of Catholicism with capitalism. The purpose of this article is to show, based on Novak’s thought in relation to Maritain, the possibilities and difficulties of this attempt.
  • A Igreja Católica de Cabo Verde no contexto da transição política de 1989 a 1991

    Leite, Rita Mendonça Alexandra Borda de Água; Varela, Nelson Amarildo da Silva (2023-12-13)
    Intitulada «A Igreja Católica de Cabo Verde no contexto da Transição Política de 1989 a 1991», esta dissertação visa analisar as contribuições e papel da Igreja Católica em Cabo Verde no processo de Transição Política de 1991. Esta dissertação é fruto de uma investigação desenvolvida com base na documentação do Arquivo da Diocese de Santiago e em imprensa periódica coeva. Para contextualizar o objeto de estudo, começa-se por fazer um enquadramento histórico sobre o país e sobre a história da Igreja em Cabo Verde desde o início da sua povoação até à época em análise. Esse enquadramento é feito de forma resumida e também englobando períodos e acontecimentos importantes da história. Fez-se também um enquadramento sobre o tema da transição política e neste contexto apresentou-se e analisou-se as indicações e orientações da Igreja Católica Romana e o papel da Imprensa escrita neste processo. Seguidamente são analisados o contexto externo no período em análise e a sua contribuição no processo de transição em Cabo Verde. O contexto político internacional pressionava para uma onda de democratização sem precedentes e da parte da Igreja Católica tanto os documentos do magistério a partir do Concílio Vaticano II, bem como os pronunciamentos dos Romanos Pontífices davam ideia de mudança de regime/ideologia política, apelando à liberdade e a uma política mais humana. A Igreja demonstrou sempre com clareza a sua posição de acordo com os seus ensinamentos, e em Cabo Verde esta posição ficou patente na análise que se fez do ministério Episcopal de Dom Paulino Livramento Évora, Bispo de Santiago de Cabo Verde no período da transição e nos discursos e homilias do Santo Padre o Papa João Paulo II durante a sua visita a Cabo Verde. Por último, fez-se uma avaliação da contribuição da Igreja no processo de transição, de forma a perceber o impacto desta contribuição na instrução e formação da consciência dos fiéis e também nesta parte fez-se uma breve análise da história da emigração cabo-verdiana e a sua contribuição no processo de transição. Enquadrado neste período analisamos a história da criação da Diocese de Mindelo, cujo início remonta o início da transição.
  • Procedimientos de queja en la Iglesia Católica y de víctimas de abuso sexual histórico

    Bisschops, Anke (2016)
    Desde 2010 unas 1600 víctimas de abuso sexual infantil en la Iglesia Católica de los Países Bajos han presentado demandas. La mayoría de estas demandas han sido tratadas a través de un procedimiento semi-legal, creado especialmente por la iglesia para dar respuesta a esta situación. Al mismo tiempo, Irlanda desarrolló un procedimiento semi-legal con el fin de hacer justicia a las víctimas. Ninguno de estos procedimientos buscaba el castigo, sino que debido a su carácter informal se centraron en posibilitar una actitud sensibilidad frente a los sentimientos y necesidades de las víctimas. En los Países Bajos unas 270 víctimas encontraron otras vías de obtener justicia. Así estas se involucraron en dos procedimientos de mediación diferentes, pero que compartían características de justicia reparadora. Este artículo compara tanto las dos procedimientos semi-legales oficiales en Irlanda y Países Bajos como los dos procedimientos de mediación en los Países Bajos. El artículo trata las razones por qué las víctimas se sentían más satisfechas con la mediación. Así como recomendaciones para otros países que aún tienen que enfrentar este problema.
  • Procedimientos de queja en la Iglesia Católica y de víctimas de abuso sexual histórico

    Bisschops, Anke (2016)
    Desde 2010 unas 1600 víctimas de abuso sexual infantil en la Iglesia Católica de los Países Bajos han presentado demandas. La mayoría de estas demandas han sido tratadas a través de un procedimiento semi-legal, creado especialmente por la iglesia para dar respuesta a esta situación. Al mismo tiempo, Irlanda desarrolló un procedimiento semi-legal con el fin de hacer justicia a las víctimas. Ninguno de estos procedimientos buscaba el castigo, sino que debido a su carácter informal se centraron en posibilitar una actitud sensibilidad frente a los sentimientos y necesidades de las víctimas. En los Países Bajos unas 270 víctimas encontraron otras vías de obtener justicia. Así estas se involucraron en dos procedimientos de mediación diferentes, pero que compartían características de justicia reparadora. Este artículo compara tanto las dos procedimientos semi-legales oficiales en Irlanda y Países Bajos como los dos procedimientos de mediación en los Países Bajos. El artículo trata las razones por qué las víctimas se sentían más satisfechas con la mediación. Así como recomendaciones para otros países que aún tienen que enfrentar este problema.
  • Church as Sanctuary: A Preferential Option for the Displaced and Persecuted Poor

    Leo Guardado (17556474) (2018-04-09)
    This dissertation argues that sanctuary is a pillar of ecclesial identity and a concretization of what it means to be a church of the poor in the United States. As persons once again flee El Salvador and other Central American countries where unbearable levels of violence have essentially created a low-intensity war akin to the 1980s, the church in the United States is faced with the challenge of protecting the humanity of “unauthorized” communities seeking refuge from governmental structures that kill through persecution and deportation. Throughout history as well as in contemporary politics, sanctuary’s capacity to interrupt and resist processes of legalized violence has made it a contentious concept and practice. Among communities of faith the possibility of providing church sanctuary can become a point of controversy and division rather than unity. Within the Roman Catholic Church there is a critical need to better understand the theological foundations of sanctuary and the ways that it incarnates the nature and mission of the church as a sacrament of salvation in and for the world so that bishops and laity alike can appropriately discern their participation, or the cost of failing to protect the displaced and persecuted poor in their midst. In response to the arrival of displaced Salvadorans in the 1980s, church sanctuary became a widespread practice that raised questions about the church itself, its responsibility to protect, and sanctuary’s potential to transform political systems and construct a more human society. This historical and political context becomes the foundation for a systematic theological reflection where I retrieve ancient traditions of refuge and sanctuary and place them in dialogue with the ecclesiology of Vatican II; analyze the sacramentality of the poor in Oscar Romero’s preaching and witness in relation to the vision of a church of the poor as expressed at the Medellin conference; and develop four categories that constitute church as sanctuary: refuge, healing, holiness, and salvation. In a world marred by dehumanizing violence, sanctuary is a necessary mark of ecclesial existence, for it is a salvific practice not only for those whose life is threatened but for the church itself.
  • The Discovery of Anxiousness: Philosophy and Mysticism in Baroque Portugal

    Serrado, Joana (transcript VerlagDEUBielefeld, 2023-12-11)
    Are anxiety or dread negative stages before freedom, a confrontation with humans' own mortality and finitude? Joana Serrado inaugurates anxiousness as a category of mystical knowledge in this innovative historical and philosophical study. Based on the life and mystical writings of Joana de Jesus, a Cistercian nun, intellectual disciple of Teresa of Avila, this study shows the cultural embeddedness of anxiousness: a feeling akin to the Portuguese term "saudade" (yearning, Sehnsucht). A mystical project that reshapes feminist principles of autonomy, agency and desire.

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