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This article presents a critical reflection on the advancement of interreligious dialogue between Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Considering the person of Jesus Christ as a common reference point provides another perspective on reconciliation as well as a means to bridge the differences that continue to hinder a communal experience of faith.
This article presents the increasingly popular phenomenon of vegetarianism from the perspective of moral theology. After synthetically describing the different types of vegetarianism, this study identified what motivates people to refrain from the consumption of meat and animal products. Vegetarians’ sensitivity to the fate of livestock as well as their ascetic motivations do not incite any moral...
This article aims not only to present a few philosophical concepts of patriotism, but to also outline the broader context of contemporary disputes taking place in many countries regarding the relationship between man and his nation, state, and homeland. Although philosophy had not considered the question of patriotism for many years, within the past century this situation has changed drastically....
Santería (also called La Regla de Ocha, or The Rule of Ocha) is an Afro-American syncretic religion practiced in Cuba. At the center of this religion is a belief in the Supreme Being, in deity intercessors (Orishas), and ancestral spirits. Orishas are like divine mediators between the Supreme Being and men. They represent the embodiment of natural forces and natural phenomena such as birth and death,...
The article considers the issue of hospitality in the era of increased inflow of immigrants and refugees to Western countries. The phenomenon of the present migration crisis shows that in countries shaped by Christianity, including Poland, there is a problem with accepting the admission of non-European populations from Muslim countries. The text attempts a sociological reconstruction of the patterns...
The recently deceased Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, former President of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers, which was incorporated into the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, worked tirelessly to guide and support the sick and suffering who have a right to medical care as well as health care workers in an increasingly complex world. This article presents the mission of...
The diocesan bishop enjoyed the right to fill cathedral chapter stalls and bestow patronages and benefices in medieval Western Europe, including in the Kingdom of Poland. However, a different practice developed in Lithuania in the Diocese of Vilnius, which was established in 1388. The King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Władysław II Jagiełło, founded the first Vilnius chapter when the...
Human rights hold an important place in Pope John Paul II’s teaching to diplomats. The dignity of the human person serves as the basis for the pope’s reflection on human rights. In his teaching, the pope taught diplomats how to understand, comprehend, and explain human rights. This publication aims to show in light of Pope John Paul II’s teaching that respect for human rights is a moral duty of diplomacy...
This article details the pastoral ministry of Archbishop Kazimierz Świątek, who witnessed to Christ in Belarus as priest for fifty-two years and as an archbishop and cardinal for almost twenty years. After Soviet oppression in Belarus ceased and when Archbishop Kazimierz Świątek became canonically responsible for the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mińsk-Mohilev and the Diocese of Pińsk, the institutional...
Social entrepreneurship is an emerging discipline that provides innovative solutions to social issues such as exclusion, poverty, and unemployment. This field of study combines both economic and social aims. While the practical aspects of social entrepreneurship are valuable, good practice requires a deeper theoretical, ethical, and axiological understanding of social entrepreneurship. This study...
In the plan of God’s Mercy, Mary plays a unique and irreplaceable role as the Mother of Jesus and as a sign of God’s Mercy towards all women and the entire world. As a sign, Mary significantly resembles other women both because of her sex and because of Jesus’ attitude towards the women he met. This attitude is so clear that it conveys that women experience God’s mercy in a particular way and that...
A complete description of patriotism must be multifaceted and include moral aspects. Specifically, a theological and moral approach to patriotism must first define the patriotic duty to love one’s homeland, the source of this love, and its concrete manifestations, and then morally assess (anti)patriotic attitudes. The source of patriotic duty is faith, hope, and the universal and ordered love that...
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