The panelists discussed the ways in which the principle of cooperation, drawn from the tradition of Catholic moral theology, can help us to think through the issues that arise out of the Catholic imperative to serve the public good in a complex world where law and policy are sometimes in conflict with Catholic moral principles. / Presenters: M. Cathleen Kaveny, John P. Murphy Professor of Law and Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame Law School; Edward A. Hartnett, Richard J. Hughes Professor for Constitutional and Public Law and Service, Seton Hall University School of Law; James F. Keenan, SJ, Professor, Boston College Theology Department; Very Rev. Russell E. Smith, Senior Director, Ethics, Catholic Health Association

Šiuo darbu siekiama teoriškai ir empiriškai pagrįsti, kad meninis ugdymas yra efektyvi pagalbinė priemonė paauglių katalikiškajame ugdyme. Darbas pagrindžiamas Bažnyčios dokumentų mokymu, II Vatikano susirinkimo nutarimais, meno ir religijos pedagogų bei edukologų mokslinėmis gairėmis ir atliktais tyrimais, meninio ugdymo daromos įtakos mokinių tikėjimo ir dvasingumo ugdyme. Tyrinėjant problemą teoriškai parodomas meninio ugdymo, kaip pagalbinės priemonės efektyvumas ir svarba. Atliktu empiriniu tyrimu yra praktiškai įvertinamos integruoto į tikybos pamokas meninio ugdymo realizavimo galimybės mokinių religiniame ugdyme. Svarbiausi darbo išvadų rezultatai parodo ir teoriškai pagrindžia, kad meninis ugdymas yra tinkama pagalbinė priemonė paauglių katalikiškajame ugdyme. Jis yra reikalingas ir taikomas tikybos pamokose, nes turi stiprų poveikį mokiniams. Juo sudomindamas pamokas daro efektyvias ir motyvuotas. Skatina aktyvų dalyvavimą pamokose, kelia tikėjimo lygį, motyvuoja mokytis. Tokiu būdu meninis ugdymas puoselėja dvasingumą ir ugdo stipresnį mokinių tikėjimą. Todėl šiandien tikybos mokytojai turėtų savo pamokose naudoti ir kuo daugiau integruoti įvairias meninio ugdymo sritis, nes tokios pamokos mokiniams yra patrauklesnės. / This work attempts to substantiate theoretically and empirically the necessity to the fine arts as a effective toll for educating in Catholic faith. The paper justifies substantiating by the works of the Church, the rulings of the Vatican Council II, the scientific guidelines and research works of the art and religion teachers and educators. When the problem is analyzed theoretically, the necessity to deepen to the fine arts as a tool for its effectiveness and importance. The research shows that integrated evaluation of religious lessons for the fine arts realization in education opportunities for schoolchildren to exercise religious education. The most important part of this work findings is to reveal and substantiate theoretically the need of the fine arts as a right tool for educating youths in the Catholic faith. It is needed and applied in religion lessons, because it has a strong impact on the students. Enticing them makes the lessons more effective and motivated. Encourage active participation in the lessons, raise the level of the faith, motivated to learn. That way the fine arts raise the spiritually and develop the Catholic faith by making it stronger. For this reason the religion teachers should use and more integrated varieties of the fine arts, because lessons with art educating in the Catholic faith are more attractive.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:27:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Henri Karam Amorim.pdf: 1200951 bytes, checksum: 365f1b1e3b1e6e2242eb83e9143f137a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-02-12 / For the humanist Viktor Frankl, the quest of meaning is something inherent to all human being, and the condition for such is the self transcendence; faith, while religious act, is one of the possibilities of self transcendence and it constitutes itself as one overmeaning or last meaning. Based on this theoretical reference, the Catholic communitarian living is understood here as one experience of Christian faith experienced in one Catholic Parish. In this perspective, the present research had as objective to understand the senses of the experience of faith lived in one Catholic community as personal growth of those who participate in it. In view of it, it has been proposed in one parish of the Metropolitan Area of Campinas the achievement of a group, seen as one more space within the community itself, in order to help people to enlarge their perspectives of personal growth departing from the consideration of their experiences of life. There were five meetings, with the average length of two hours each, in a fortnightly periodicity. All the nine participants, chosen among adult people commited with voluntary work, were designated for community leaderships and invited to participate in the group by the researcher. After each group meeting, accounts were redacted to register the more meaningful moments of the group as well as its movement as a whole; there were also versions of the meaning, that is, brief writings that register the meaning lived in each meeting for each one of the participants. From this whole of registers it has been elaborated a qualitativephenomenological analysis, gathering by axes of meanings everything that was lived and said by the participants. The gathering that was organized and its analysis allowed an enlightenment about the relations between things the community of faith lives and the mobilization regarding the personal growth of its participants; they also made possible to realize that the living of the Christian religious faith in a communitarian Catholic context is promoter of personal growth, in spite of such growth not always being guaranteed by the simple fact of participating in the community, since it is also felt and perceived as a space of contradictions. / Para o humanista Victor Frankl, a busca de sentido ? algo inerente a todo ser humano e a condi??o para tal ? a autotranscend?ncia; a f?, enquanto ato religioso, ? uma das possibilidades da autotranscend?ncia e se constitui como um suprassentido ou sentido ?ltimo. Com base neste referencial te?rico, a viv?ncia comunit?ria cat?lica ? entendida aqui como uma experi?ncia de f? crist? experienciada numa par?quia cat?lica. Nesta perspectiva, a presente pesquisa teve como objetivo compreender os sentidos da experi?ncia de f? vivida em uma comunidade cat?lica como crescimento pessoal daqueles que dela participam. Em vista disso, foi proposto em uma par?quia da regi?o metropolitana de Campinas a realiza??o de um grupo, visto como um espa?o a mais dentro da pr?pria comunidade, a fim de ajudar as pessoas a ampliar suas perspectivas de crescimento pessoal a partir da considera??o de suas experi?ncias de vida. Foram cinco encontros, com dura??o m?dia de duas horas cada, numa periodicidade quinzenal. Os nove participantes, escolhidos dentre pessoas adultas comprometidas com o trabalho volunt?rio, foram indicados por lideran?as comunit?rias e convidados a participar do grupo pelo pesquisador. Ap?s cada encontro grupal, foram redigidas narrativas registrando os momentos mais significativos do grupo bem como seu movimento como um todo; foram feitas tamb?m vers?es de sentido , isto ?, escritos breves que registram o sentido vivido em cada reuni?o por cada um dos participantes. Deste conjunto de registros foi elaborada uma an?lise qualitativo-fenomenol?gica, reunindo por eixos de significados tudo o que foi vivido e falado pelos participantes. O grupo realizado e sua an?lise permitiram um esclarecimento acerca das rela??es entre viv?ncias de comunidade de f? e mobiliza??o em vista de crescimento pessoal de seus participantes; possibilitaram tamb?m perceber que a viv?ncia da f? religiosa crist? num contexto comunit?rio cat?lico ? promotora de crescimento pessoal, embora tal crescimento nem sempre esteja garantido pelo simples fato de participar da comunidade, uma vez que ela ? tamb?m sentida e percebida como um espa?o de contradi??es.

At the commencement of this thesis I saw myself standing at the outer limits of my knowledge with my nose pressed against a wall of demarcation. This wall was built from my willingness to tolerate systems of control in silence and from my unwillingness to make my beliefs and personal convictions known. I set out at the start of this journey with two intentions. I want to raise my voice because I didn’t want to pretend about my faith anymore. And for the first time use my art practice as a mouthpiece to tell these truths.

INTRINSIC RELIGIOSITY PRACTICE Psychological aspects of intrinsic religiosity of Catholic women - mothers of small children. Key words: Intrinsic religiosity, Prayer, Spirituality of an Everyday Life, Motherhood, Catholic Faith, Identity, Narrative Analysis Secularisation of the current post-modern Europe represents a collapse of Christianity in the sense of an integrating power of the society; however, it does not mean extinction of Christianity as such. The largest European church has been responding to the changes in the post-modern society by moving the emphasis from Catholicism (institutionally - as a doctrine attitude of the church) to Catholicity (openness and universal attitude of the church). Despite this inner movement, the Roman Catholic Church is losing numbers of their members and frequently it does not satisfactorily address, among the competition in the 'religious market', agnostics or even the 'searching' ones. From another point of view, however, it is obvious that for many people it still remains a 'home' in which they develop their faith as an individual expression of existential needs. The symbolic universe of the traditional Catholic religion provides these people with factual as well as symbolic tools to develop spirituality. Significant changes in religiousness and...

Catholic educational leaders serve as the primary faith leaders in their school community and remain influential in the public discourse of Catholic education. As insiders understanding the contextual educational landscape, and who are at the forefront of renewal and change within their own school communities, Catholic educational leaders are critical in providing an account and understanding of how their lived experience contributed to the formation of their Catholic identity. Through their daily interactions with parents, students, stakeholders, politicians, and community, their ability to articulate their Catholic identity as a school leader is imperative for the broader understanding of Catholic education. This study, grounded in narrative inquiry methodology, explored the question “What is the lived experience of Catholic educational leaders in relation to shaping, informing, and influencing the conceptual formation of Catholic identity in 21st century schools?” This question resonates with the necessity to better understand how Catholic identity is lived authentically within Catholic schools for leaders who are entrusted with leading a diverse faith community. Four Catholic educational leaders share their stories of experience, working within a relational three-dimensional space of temporality, sociality, and place as key considerations of inquiry. By living, reliving, telling, and retelling their stories to live by, threads of coherence and continuity link their personal, professional, and spiritual landscape. Participant findings generated four organizing categories: Catholic identity, Catholic education, Catholic leadership, and relationships. Each category was subsequently framed with additional sub-categories to further develop and deepen Catholic identity as a storied landscape of experience within the framework of the three- dimensional narrative inquiry. Navigating this inquiry space gave rise to contradictions and tensions surrounding the articulation and expression of Catholic identity the difficult and complex role of Catholic educational leadership, the turmoil of an educational landscape that is challenging the relevance of Catholic education, and the dynamic and every evolving influence relationships have on faith formation. To both insiders and outsiders of Catholic education, this study illuminates a better understanding of how Catholic educational leaders shape, form, and influence the conceptual formation of their Catholic identity in 21st century schools. It also provides a lens to view how diversity and unity of Catholic identity is constructed and understood narratively. / Graduate