Original scientific paper
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF PASTORAL IN FAMILY IN RIJEKA REGION. Conditions and characteristics from the fifties till the nineties of the last century
Milan Šimunović
; Theology of Rijeka, Dislocated Studies of Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
Throughout its troubled history, the families of Rijeka have been exposed to numerous political and cultural changes that have significantly endangered their Christian identity. The result of the analysis of historical and cultural conditions, including very heterogeneous society after the Second World War, lack of own clergy, and stronger pastoral traditions in the past, leads to a conclusion that the Church really focused their efforts on the family pastoral during the seventies and eighties of the last century, that is in advocating the truth on family, which has became prominent since the Second Vatican Council, and thus towards the “salvation of family”. Based on this analysis, we can conclude that the future of pastoral in family obviously depends on the valuation of these bygone post-council experiences of co-operative and synodical thoughts of priests, religious brothers and sisters, and laity in search of more suitable pastoral models that support families and their roles within the Church and society.
Keywords
pastoral in family; pastoral models; family values; communism; High Theological Seminary
Hrčak ID:
221188
URI
Publication date:
5.2.2007.
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