Review article
THE REFLECTIONS OF PRONOUNCED ATHEISATION, ANTICLERICALISM AND LAICISME ON CATHOLIC FAMILIES IN RIJEKA
Marijan Jurčević
; Theology of Rijeka, Dislocated Studies of Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
About the situation in family in the city of Rijeka we can only speak generally, because there was no investigation done. We can talk more about elements that caused the situation in the family, that we find today. In Rijeka the atheisation is more pronounced in the moral, than the theoretical field. This form of atheism is better to be called indifference, which is the characteristics of modern age. There is also an increase of indifference and atheism in families changing the rural surroundings with the urban. As if they could not, with their rural faith, cope in the town. So, when they returned in their villages, they practised the faith, and even baptised their children there. Atheism is more pronounced in the moral field, than in the theoretical. The practical one was more present than the theoretical. In Rijeka, moral indifference dominated, what is anyhow the characteristics of the modern world. We can also see a kind of “Christian illiteratism”, the Church beeing responsible for it in Rijeka. There was done very little in the process of adaptation of believers from rural to urban surroundings. Many of them “left” their faith in their villages and when they returned there, it was there that they practised the faith. One other reason for this situation is that a great number of priests-Italians in the Second World War went to Italy, and Rijeka remained “empty” regarding citizens and priests. Nevertheless, as Rijeka gains its identity, religion and particular family changes, occur. In diocese, some courses are organised about family and marriage, and, a Chancery was formed, that exists nowadays taking courses for fiances.
Keywords
Atheism; indifference; liberalism; Church; Family
Hrčak ID:
221132
URI
Publication date:
5.2.2007.
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