Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.31823/d.28.3.5
Recognize, Accompany, and Treat the Weakest in the Community According to Amoris Laetitia
Pero Aračić
; Catholic Faculty of Theology in Đakovo, J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek
Abstract
The paper presents the factual situation of the scourge of separation and divorce in Croatia and, based on the interviews published in a study on these processes, deals in a special way with their impact on the spouses and especially the children from such broken marriages and families. There is also research on the transmission of the culture of separation and divorce to the next generations. Together with Amoris laetitia, the paper discusses what to do and asks the community to help this huge number of traumatized people through the processes of forgiveness and reconciliation, as well as their integration into communities and to be close to them and helpful with great solidarity. Of course, available are also the Church’s professional legal services with which an analysis should be conducted of the marital and family situations and see what the Church legislation recommends. In all these processes, which are often lengthy, they are supported by religious closeness and solidarity of the faithful.
Keywords
separations and divorces; children from such marriages and families; experiences of all affected; the path of forgiveness; forgiveness and reconciliation; church integration
Hrčak ID:
243705
URI
Publication date:
16.9.2020.
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