The significance of charity (caritas) in the governing, sanctifying, and teaching mission of the Church

Ujházi, Lóránd (author)

It would be far from the ,constitutional‘ principle of the Church, like in a case of the welfare state, to separate markedly the organizations of the universal or particular Church that are specifically in the service of merciful charity. On the contrary, all levels and all offices of the Church are permeated with the commitment to merciful love. We are substantiating our claims with qualitative research, analyses of primary and secondary theological and Canon Law sources, which we sharpen for the governmental, sanctifying, and teaching mission of the Church. Our goal is to demonstrate that the consistent commitment of the Church, especially utterances of the current Pope, the reform of the Curia, the positioning of the diplomatic body and the involvement of the Catholic Church in crisis management to support regional and global humanitarian mission and security, harmonize with the theological teaching of the Church and with the Canon Law referring to it.

• Language: English
• Keywords: social teaching, crisis-management, canon law, Holy See, humanitarian assistance
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2020
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 783-802
• Numbering: Letn. 80, [št.] 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-163735
• UDC: 27-423.79
• ISSN on article: 0006-5722
• DOI: 10.34291/BV2020/04/Ujhazi
• COBISS.SI-ID: 44818947
• Publication date in RUL: 10.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Bogoslovni vestnik
• Shortened title: Bogosl. vestn.
• Publisher: Bogoslovna akademija, Bogoslovna akademija, Teološka fakulteta v Ljubljani, Teološka fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 0006-5722
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8745472

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Pomen (karitativne) ljubezni v voditeljskem, posvečevalnem in učiteljskem poslanstvu Cerkve

Abstract

Kakor v primeru socialne države, bi bilo od ,konstitutivnih‘ načel Cerkve oddaljeno tudi ostro zamejevanje tistih njenih organizacij (na vesoljni ali krajevni ravni), ki so specifično namenjene usmiljeni ljubezni. Še več, vse ravni in vse službe Cerkve prežema zavezanost k usmiljeni ljubezni. Naše trditve utemeljujemo na kvalitativnih raziskavah, analizah primarnih in sekundarnih teoloških in kanonskopravnih virov, skozi katere poudarjamo voditeljsko, posvečevalno in učiteljsko poslanstvo Cerkve. Naš cilj je pokazati, da je dosledna zavezanost Cerkve – zlasti prizadevanja sedanjega papeža, reforma kurije, umeščenost diplomatskega zbora in vključenost Cerkve v krizni management za krepitev regionalnega in svetovnega humanitarnega poslanstva ter varnosti – skladna z njenim lastnim teološkim naukom in kanonskim pravom, ki se nanj navezuje.

• Keywords: katoliška cerkev, poslanstvo, usmiljenje, ljubezen, kanonsko pravo