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Statutory and other legal requirements for the pastoral care in health in the Republic of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tomo Vukšić
Sažetak
The task of this paper is to present the legal requirements
for the pastoral care in health needed to provide spiritual
guidance in health care and to manage these activities. Here
this refers to church and state laws, as well as to the documents
related to the agreements concluded between the Holy See and
a state, having the character of international treaties, and the
agreements concluded between the proper state authorities or
hospital authorities and local church institutions. In the first
part legal regulations in the Republic of Croatia are presented
(Croatian Constitution; the Law on the Legal Status of Religious
Communities; Laws on Health Care and Rights of Patients;
Agreement between the Holy See and the Republic of Croatia
on Legal Matters; Agreement between the Croatian Bishops’
Conference and the Republic of Croatia on Pastoral Care in Hospitals
and other Medical Institutions and Social Welfare Institutions).
In the second part laws and agreements on the pastoral
care in health in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina are
presented (Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Law on
Freedom of Religion and Legal Status of Churches and Religious
Communities; Law on Health Care and Patients’ Rights; The Basic
Agreement between the Holy See and Bosnia and Herzegovina);
also, as an example, Agreement between the Diocese and
Hospital in Mostar is presented. Agreements signed by Croatia
and Bosnia and Herzegovina regulate the issues of pastoral care
in health in the same way. In Croatia an agreement between
the Bishops’ Conference and state Government was signed by
which this issue has been further regulated. In Bosnia and
Herzegovina only the Basic Agreement with the Holy See was
signed, in which the Catholic Church is principally guaranteed
the right to pastoral care in health, but the agreement between
the State authorities and Bishops’ Conference, as specified in
the Basic Agreement, has not been signed yet. And, as far as the
laws are concerned, which should regulate directly or indirectly
the pastoral care in health, they principally guarantee religious
rights, but they are reduced to patients, totally ignoring the
other personnel who work in health care.
Ključne riječi
pastoral care in health; legal regulations; agreements on the patients’ pastoral care
Hrčak ID:
112248
URI
Datum izdavanja:
17.12.2013.
Posjeta: 1.651 *