{"title":"The Communion of Saints in the Light of Ancestor Veneration in Africa and Its Sequels on the Christian Theology of Hope","authors":"Fredrick Omollo","doi":"10.18290/rt2023.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18290/rt2023.19","url":null,"abstract":"The article argues that the praxis of ancestor veneration in Africa is a system akin to the Christian belief in the “communion of saints.” It is a system for realizing the fullest potential of human (religious) experience. Humanness is a skill developed to become more and more human with God’s help. In this regard, well-being, or in the Christian sense, “salvation” is the fruitful accomplishment of a person’s proficiencies by sustaining beneficial relationships between earthly descendants and their ancestors. This worldview is scrutinized through the lens of the Christian doctrine of the communion of saints; thus, it is a present reality and pathway to attaining fullness of well-being. The author recognizes the tripartite Church and identifies the “exalted spiritual life,” “resurrected life,” and divine life as systematically possessed through living the doctrine of the communion of saints. Christian hope is thoroughly Christological, transcending merely natural ties.","PeriodicalId":206836,"journal":{"name":"Roczniki Teologiczne","volume":"25 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139150084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Christian and Muslim Faith in the Same God after the Second Vatican Council","authors":"Jozef Krupa","doi":"10.18290/rt2023.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18290/rt2023.17","url":null,"abstract":"This article engages in a discussion about whether Christians and Muslims believe in the same God. It first presents the opinions of the authors who take a negative view, then the opinions of those who take a positive view. It also gives one Muslim viewpoint on the subject. In the next part, based on the letter of Pope Gregory VII, the Second Vatican Council, the address of Paul VI, the address of John Paul II, the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together, the address by Pope Francis at an interreligious meeting in Ur, and concluded by the Prayer of the Children of Abraham, it claims that Christians and Muslims believe in the same God. The author does not address the issue of every religion believing in the same God differently. In objecting to the view of the common belief of both monotheistic religions in the same God with the fact that Muslims do not recognize the Most Holy Trinity, the author points out that even Jews do not believe in it and no one disputes that Jews and Christians believe in the same God.","PeriodicalId":206836,"journal":{"name":"Roczniki Teologiczne","volume":"28 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139148221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O. Sitarz, J. Hanc, Dominika Bek, Anna Jaworska-Wieloch
{"title":"Post-Sentence Mediation – Its Rationale and Importance in the Light of the Teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. A Look from the Perspective of a Catholic Country","authors":"O. Sitarz, J. Hanc, Dominika Bek, Anna Jaworska-Wieloch","doi":"10.18290/rt2023.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18290/rt2023.20","url":null,"abstract":"Victim-offender mediation in enforcement proceedings is a new challenge for the justice system in Poland and many countries around the world. The number of such mediations is currently very small. The lack of appropriate regulations and enthusiasm among representatives of the studies and its practitioners make it difficult to search for a way to popularize a conciliatory attitude in enforcement proceedings. The authors of this publication seek arguments in favour of post-sentence mediation in the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. The importance of faith and religion in the lives of many people (including convicts) and an analysis of the texts of Sacred Scripture and statements of clergymen on forgiveness and satisfaction allow us to be optimistic about the Church’s efforts to encourage the implementation of principles so important to restorative justice.","PeriodicalId":206836,"journal":{"name":"Roczniki Teologiczne","volume":"227 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139152677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kongregacja Rozkrzewiania Wiary a bernardyńska misja sui iuris na Sachalinie","authors":"Aleksander Krzysztof Sitnik","doi":"10.18290/rt2023.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18290/rt2023.21","url":null,"abstract":"Artykuł prezentuje pracę misyjną polskich bernardynów, którą podjęli na Sachalinie japońskim na początku XX w. W 1932 r. Kongregacja Rozkrzewiania Wiary utworzyła samodzielną placówkę misyjną sui iuris i oddała ją pod opiekę Zakonowi Braci Mniejszych, prowincji bernardyńskiej w Polsce. Misyjną działalność bernardynów na Sachalinie wspierała nie tylko Kongregacja Rozkrzewiania Wiary, ale także Kuria Generalna Zakonu Braci Mniejszych w Rzymie i Kuria Prowincjalna Prowincji Niepokalanego Poczęcia NMP w Polsce. Kongregacja Rozkrzewiania Wiary, aby jeszcze bardziej spotęgować działania misjonarzy, w 1938 r. utworzyła prefekturę apostolską w Karafuto. Pomimo tak wielu wysiłków instytucji kościelnych na skutek niesprzyjających warunków politycznych bernardyńska misja na Sachalinie musiała zostać zamknięta już w 1948 r.","PeriodicalId":206836,"journal":{"name":"Roczniki Teologiczne","volume":"6 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139148664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Autonomiczność tekstu homilii","authors":"Michał Klementowicz","doi":"10.18290/rt2023.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18290/rt2023.16","url":null,"abstract":"Celem niniejszego artykułu jest opisanie konstrukcji homilii jako tekstu autonomicznego. Przedstawione tu rozumowanie pozwoliło wyodrębnić dwa poziomy owej własności: merytoryczny oraz strukturalny. Dzięki tym zakresom głoszone w celebracji słowo może otrzymać charakterystyczny kształt właściwy dla typologii opisywanego tekstu. Rezultatem opracowania jest wykazanie, że osiągnięta samodzielność wypowiedzi umożliwia tzw. dysponowanie jej treścią. Ma to swoje ściśle praktyczne znaczenie – daje szansę, aby niwelować rozdźwięk między sensem przekazywanym przez duchowego (what is said) a znaczeniem tekstu faktycznie odbieranym przez słuchaczy (what is understood).","PeriodicalId":206836,"journal":{"name":"Roczniki Teologiczne","volume":"89 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139151464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Church and Family in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities","authors":"Aloys Otieno Ojore","doi":"10.18290/rt2023.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18290/rt2023.18","url":null,"abstract":"The author dwells on marriage and family life in the light of Ecclesia in Africa. He praises Ecclesia in Africa as a milestone in Africa’s ecclesial life. He gives an overview of the various emerging models of family across the world confronting the traditional Catholic understanding of marriage and the family. He insists that the African family model of polygamy should be reviewed and re-considered in light of the emerging Western models of gay and lesbian families.","PeriodicalId":206836,"journal":{"name":"Roczniki Teologiczne","volume":"25 5‐6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139150575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El ministerio de catequista, vocación e identidad a la luz del Directorio para la Catequesis","authors":"Juan Carlos Carvajal Blanco","doi":"10.18290/rt2023.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18290/rt2023.6","url":null,"abstract":"La publicación de la Carta apostólica Antiquum ministerium, por la que el Papa Francisco instituye el ministerio laical de catequista, presenta la ocasión para estudiar cómo ha sido tratada la figura del catequista en los Directorios de catequesis del postconcilio. A partir de este marco y con una metodología analítico-sintética, el artículo profundiza en el perfil del catequista tal y como lo presenta el Directorio para la Catequesis (2020). El trabajo destaca la dimensión teológico-eclesial que tiene la vocación e identidad del catequista y cuáles son sus funciones para llevar adelante la catequesis que, en la actualidad, reclama la nueva etapa evangelizadora de la Iglesia. De este modo, el estudio manifiesta el valor y el alcance que tiene la institución del ministerio de catequista.","PeriodicalId":206836,"journal":{"name":"Roczniki Teologiczne","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123591341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Secularization, the New Phase of Evangelization and Pope Francis’ Idea of an Ecclesiastical University","authors":"Piotr Musiewicz","doi":"10.18290/rt2023.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18290/rt2023.1","url":null,"abstract":"The main goal of this article is to present the relationship between secularization and the Catholic Church’s post-conciliar call for evangelization, including the new phase of evangelization, as well as to present the relationship between Pope Francis’ idea of an ecclesiastical university and the new phase of evangelization. To realize this aim, meanings of secularization, the new phase of evangelization and the idea of an ecclesiastical university are defined and presented, which in itself fills – to some extent – a research gap on the new phase of evangelization (shown here concerning evangelization and the new evangelization) and Francis’ idea of an ecclesiastical university. The paper argues that the call for evangelization is due to recognizing the secularization trend by the Catholic Church and that every ecclesiastical university receives the clear task of evangelization in the new phase of evangelization.","PeriodicalId":206836,"journal":{"name":"Roczniki Teologiczne","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128376036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interpretation of the Word of God in the Liturgy on the Example of the Fifth Sunday of Lent, Cycle A","authors":"R. Malewicz","doi":"10.18290/rt2023.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18290/rt2023.3","url":null,"abstract":"The guiding principle that should accompany a homilist's interpretation of biblical texts in the liturgy is fidelity to the Bible and the Church, which has the mission of guarding and explaining the Word of God. This means that a homilist must use proven tools, including biblical hermeneutics. In the case of homiletical preaching, which takes place during a liturgical event, it is also a matter of taking into account that “the liturgical setting is an essential key to interpreting the biblical passages proclaimed in a celebration” (Homiletic Directory, no. 15). This article presents how to interpret the Word of God in the liturgy based on the example of the Fifth Sunday of Lent, cycle A. Taking into account hermeneutical principles makes it possible to emphasize the kerygmatic meaning of the Mass readings every Sunday.","PeriodicalId":206836,"journal":{"name":"Roczniki Teologiczne","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132887077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Loss of the Sense of Sin and the Arrogance of Life: Challenges for Today’s Evangelization","authors":"Krzysztof Nykiel","doi":"10.18290/rt2023.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18290/rt2023.4","url":null,"abstract":"At the beginning of 2014, during his morning meditations, Pope Francis, when referring to a famous phrase by Pius XII, stated that losing the sense of sin is the evil of this civilisation, an evil that strengthens Christian mediocrity and is inversely proportional to directing attention towards – and constructing – the Kingdom of God among men. The categories of sense of sin and sense of guilt, at least in theory and without generalisations, become understandable in the context of the Christian experience and the ecclesial consciousness; yet, when the human horizon is extended, the two concepts do not find a right to citizenship because the question is not even raised. The children and creators of contemporary culture, the men and women of our time, although directed towards the Kingdom of God, are strongly influenced by the global and plural secularist mentality, and this has a negative impact on their attitudes, behaviour and expressions of their existence. The Church, both within herself and outside herself, poses to herself the question of how she can redirect the expressions of this unprecedented anthropology towards Gospel values. The problem is not so much how to bring to the surface the sense of guilt and sin but, rather, how to restore or generate faith in the hearts of men. Effective evangelisation has the task of bringing back the Gospel into men’s hearts and educating in a sense of God so that contemporary man can have a higher paradigm (God) on which to base himself.","PeriodicalId":206836,"journal":{"name":"Roczniki Teologiczne","volume":"2122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130115751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}