Review article
WHY DO ADULTS HAVE PASTORAL PRIORITY IN THE CHURCH NOWADAYS?
Josip Šimunović
orcid.org/0000-0003-0253-1393
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb
Abstract
The article provides the analysis of the topic of the priority of adults in pastoral work of the Church. In its reflections and its pastoral activities aimed at adults, though not exclusively, the Church doesn’t forget different forms of catechetic encounters. Thus we can say that pastoral work is always thick with some form of catechesis, and the expansion of the factual religious and life condition of the very believer. This research emphasises the catechesis of adults as a priority of pastoral work in the Church of the Republic of Croatia, although it doesn’t cover all the pastoral activities for adults. To fulfil the purpose of the article, the author starts with the adult addressee of catechetic-pastoral activities and care of the citizens of Croatia, a large number of whom were declared as Catholics at the last population census, but who also lack proper religious education. Moreover, the article brings out the valuable points of the documents of the Church Magisterium, important for the universal Church, but also of the documents published by Croatian bishops, wich promote and enhance catechesis, various other forms of pastoral activities and care for adults. The conclusion provides the concrete answers which are the result of the research based on the question stated in the very title of the article.
Keywords
pastoral activities; pasoral care; adults, catechesis for adults
Hrčak ID:
35042
URI
Publication date:
30.1.2009.
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