Tendo como pressuposto a Doença de Alzheimer uma doença cerebral degenerativa primária e de etiologia desconhecida que acomete potencialmente indivíduos acima de 65 anos de idade esta tese destaca a importância da divulgação científica no âmbito de um assunto que ainda é mistério para a ciência e para o jornalismo. O fio condutor é a misteriosa doença do papa João Paulo II que o deixou completamente fragilizado. Foi Alzheimer? A mídia impressa desempenha um papel importante na compreensão de significados, especialmente aqueles referentes ao risco de adoecimento. A Doença de Alzheimer é analisada na cobertura jornalística em três meios: jornais O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S. Paulo e L´Ossevatore Romano, veículo oficial do Vaticano, no período de 2000 a 2005. / Given the assumption as Alzheimer\'s disease - a degenerative brain disease of unknown aetiology primary and that potentially affects individuals over 65 years of age - this thesis stresses the importance of science within a matter that is still a mystery to science and the journalism. The leitmotif is the mysterious illness of Pope John Paul II that has completely undermined. It was Alzheimer? The printed media plays an important role in the understanding of meanings, especially those relating to the risk of illness. The Alzheimer\'s Disease is analyzed in the journalistic coverage in three media: newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S. Paulo and L\'Ossevatore Romano, the Vatican official vehicle for the period 2000 to 2005.

This work proposes that the foundation for justice in society begins with an understanding of personhood that begins with Christian theology. While ethical stances such as the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights are helpful in articulating the bounds of justice in society, such humanistic declarations and programs may reach an impasse if they do not incorporate the depth and complexity of human personhood revealed in Jesus Christ. I will make this argument by comparing the Christian anthropologies of two prominent advocates for social justice in the Catholic and Protestant traditions: Karol Wojytla/Pope John Paul II and Karl Barth. Parts One and Two of this thesis will examine the strong critique which both of these men offered within their own historical context toward systems which denied the vital connection between Christian theology and persons in society. These parts will outline the distinctly Christian anthropologies that each theologian proposed as a basis for social justice. The final part of this thesis will set these two anthropologies in critical interaction with one another in the key area of divergence: the ontology of human personhood and the methodological issues integral to it. While John Paul has raised critical issues which are central to social ethics and has articulated many of the complexities of human action, Karl Barth's Christological anthropology proposes an ontological construct of being which critically critiques human motivation and behaviour while also providing a social starting point for personal ethics.

[pt] A presente dissertação tem como objetivo interrogar sobre o problema do sofrimento e do sentido de vida no mundo contemporâneo, partindo de uma análise que contextualiza a compreensão e a vivência do sofrimento na atual sociedade. Estudaremos o livro Homo Patiens, do psiquiatra vienense Viktor E. Frankl, e a Carta Apostólica Salvifici Doloris, do Papa João Paulo II, buscando, através dos pontos em comum no pensamento dos dois autores, realizar um diálogo entre fé e cultura. Diante das propostas que a sociedade contemporânea apresenta para suprimir o sofrimento e que, muitas vezes, resulta em vazio existencial, desprezo dos mais fracos e em distanciamento de Deus, buscaremos respostas mais adequadas sobre o sentido do sofrimento, sobre o valor da pessoa humana e sobre a relação entre Deus e o sofrimento humano. / [en] This dissertation aims to examine the problem of suffering and the meaning of life in the contemporary world, starting from an analysis that contextualizes the understanding and the experience of suffering in the present society. We will study the book Homo Patiens, by the viennese psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl, and the Apostolic Letter Salvifici Doloris by Pope John Paul II, seeking a dialogue between faith and culture, through the common points in the authors thoughts. In the face of contemporary society s proposals to suppress suffering, which often results in an existential emptiness, contempt for the weakest and distancing from God, we will search for more adequate answers about the meaning of suffering, about the value of the human person and about the relation between God and the human suffering.

Tendo como pressuposto a Doença de Alzheimer uma doença cerebral degenerativa primária e de etiologia desconhecida que acomete potencialmente indivíduos acima de 65 anos de idade esta tese destaca a importância da divulgação científica no âmbito de um assunto que ainda é mistério para a ciência e para o jornalismo. O fio condutor é a misteriosa doença do papa João Paulo II que o deixou completamente fragilizado. Foi Alzheimer? A mídia impressa desempenha um papel importante na compreensão de significados, especialmente aqueles referentes ao risco de adoecimento. A Doença de Alzheimer é analisada na cobertura jornalística em três meios: jornais O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S. Paulo e L´Ossevatore Romano, veículo oficial do Vaticano, no período de 2000 a 2005. / Given the assumption as Alzheimer\'s disease - a degenerative brain disease of unknown aetiology primary and that potentially affects individuals over 65 years of age - this thesis stresses the importance of science within a matter that is still a mystery to science and the journalism. The leitmotif is the mysterious illness of Pope John Paul II that has completely undermined. It was Alzheimer? The printed media plays an important role in the understanding of meanings, especially those relating to the risk of illness. The Alzheimer\'s Disease is analyzed in the journalistic coverage in three media: newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S. Paulo and L\'Ossevatore Romano, the Vatican official vehicle for the period 2000 to 2005.

Le sujet de cette thèse porte sur les relations entre l’Église et l’État en Pologne de la Seconde Guerre mondiale à la rupture de 1989. Elle est centrée sur la parole libératrice de Jean-Paul II. L’un des aspects du processus de la destruction de la dictature communiste, introduit et imposé par le pouvoir politique soviétique en Pologne, a été l’influence de l’Église et en particulier de celle du Primat de Pologne, Stefan Wyszyński et de l’archevêque de Cracovie, Karol Wojtyła. Les visites de ce dernier, devenu Pape, en 1979, 1983 et 1987 se posent en triple vecteur de désaliénation (à l’échelle de l’individu), de détotalisation (à l’échelle de la société), et de désoviétisation (à l’échelle de la nation). Wojtyła, devenu Jean-Paul II, agissait à l’aide d’une Parole qui produisait un effet sensible et exerçait une influence réelle, morale et intellectuelle, sur les personnes. Pour ce travail j’ai examiné le concept de la « parole performative » (c’est-à-dire celle qui a la force d’agir par elle-même), employée par Wojtyła, et de son imprégnation de l’individu, de la société, de la nation. / The subject of my thesis bears on the relations between the Church and the State in Poland from the monopole beginning of the Second World War until the breakdown of 1989. It is centered on the liberating words of John Paul II. One aspect of this destruction process of the communist dictatorship, introduced and imposed by the sovietic political power in Poland, has been the influence of the Church and in particular that of the Primate of Poland, Stefan Wyszyński and of the Archbishop of Cracovia, Karol Wojtyła. The latter's visits, once he became Pope, in 1979, 1983 and 1987, are set as a triple carrier of freedom ( on an individual scale), of relieving the burden of totalitarism ( on a social scale) and of the sovietic grip (on a national scale) Wojtyła, once he became John Paul II, operated thanks to a Word which produced a sensitiv effect and exerted a real, moral and intellectual, influence on the people. For this work, I examined the concept of «performative Word» ( that is to say a Word which has the strength to act by itself), used by Wojtyła, and of its impact on the individual, on society, on the nation at large.

This thesis explores the use of eucharistic language in the theatre theories of three different mid-20th-century Polish theatre companies--the Reduta Theatre, the Rhapsodic Theatre, and the Laboratory Theatre--especially as expressed in the writings of their respective primary founders: Juliusz Osterwa, Mieczysław Kotlarczyk, and Jerzy Grotowski. The thesis also describes how the Rhapsodic and Laboratory Theatres inherited different elements of the Reduta tradition, and how those two diverging branches of the Reduta's legacy have affected contemporary theatre. In addition, the thesis examines how different 20th-century theatre theorists have related the eucharist to theatre, and evaluates the legitimacy of the claim that religious rituals such as the eucharist can and ought to be replaced by secular theatrical rituals. Special attention is paid to Carl Lavery's three views of the sacred: secular, theological, and a/theological. Alexander Schmemann's conception of the eucharist is used to correct Lavery's presentation of the theological sacred and to argue for the possibility of a Christian sacred theatre, or a "eucharistic theatre." The thesis defines the concept of a eucharistic theatre; demonstrates the extent to which the Reduta, Rhapsodic, and Laboratory Theatres meet this definition; and suggests some ways in which a eucharistic theatre may be created today.

The Pope's visits are important social, political, and media events. The pope always comes to the host country with a predetermined agenda, not unlike the one for state visits by politicians. The Pope's speeches are at the center of the public part of the agenda. This thesis aims to analyze the messages that the two popes presented to the nation and the world during their visits to Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. And also how the media captured, interpreted, and brought these messages to their audiences. The results show that the popes emphasized several topics, from spiritual renewal, return to tradition, reorganization of the Church to the commemoration of Christianity as the basis of European culture. However, the media largely ignored these frames, because even the use of frames does not guarantee preferred decoding. The analysis of selected newspapers showed that the papal messages were spread the best in Lidové noviny, a paper focused on strong opinion texts. This is all the more surprising because Lidové noviny was built on the traditional anti-Catholic tradition. The narrowly focused Catholic weekly did not spread the message to such an extent. In the case of the mainstream Mladá fronta Dnes, the form of the visit prevailed over the content, and the main role was played by the...

Kateřina Šumníková Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of International Relations, department of German and Austrian studies, field of German and Central European studies Diploma thesis: The image of the pontificate of John Paul II. in Federal Republic of Germany ABSTRACT Pope John Paul II. had indisputable importance not only for the church in Central and Eastern Europe, but also for social change in Eastern Europe. In the Federal Republic of Germany, John Paul II has become a personality who aroused not only polite interest, but also an increasing controversy over the time. The diploma thesis conducts a survey of the exact causes of the distance to his personality as well as the factors of not adoring perception in the Federal Republic of Germany. Part of the work deals with the quantitative media analysis, which provides a media image of John Paul II. in selected periodicals in connection to the announcement of Pope's canonization (July 5, 2014) and subsequent canonization (April 27, 2014).

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