Mniejszość katolicka we współczesnym Azerbejdżanie

This article outlines the history of Catholicism in present-day Azerbaijan and discusses the contemporary legal, statistical and social situation of this religion in mentioned country. In addition to the informations collected from printed and virtual sources, the data gathered during the interviews with representatives of state institutions as well as native Catholics living in Baku was also used.

The model of a contemporary female Catholic as designed by religious girls on the threshold of adulthood. A report on focus group interviews

This article describes the model of a contemporary Catholic woman as designed by religious girls on the threshold of adulthood. In the struggle of young people with existential dilemmas, both specific models and abstract role models may prove to be helpful. Both have become the subject of research carried out in 2021 conducted using 10 focus group interviews with 35 female students in the final years of secondary schools. The focus groups were created by recruiting 17–18 years olds girls of the Roman Catholic faith living in western and northern Poland and attended religion lessons. This article contains an excerpt concerning the model of a Catholic woman in the contemporary world designed by interviewees. The projection task showed that the created role models go beyond the stereotypical images of Catholic women, less refers to a specific traditional Christian personal models and is an exemplification of a new female perspective in Catholicism.

Ideological Fundamentals of Rev. Jan Piwowarczyk’s Economic and Social Thought

Father Jan Piwowarczyk (1889–1959) Philosophy doctor in theology, ethicist, sociologist, academic teacher, catholic feature writer, theoretician of pre-war for the Christian democratic party. In 1907, he graduated from gymnasium in Wadowice, then he studied at the Seminary for the Archdiocese of Krakow. On the 2nd of July 1911, he was ordained a priest at the Wawel Cathedral. He was a cannon of the Krakow chapter, the rector of Krakow Seminary in the years 1939–1945. He was an outstanding catholic feature writer – in the years 1922–1939 he was the chief editor of “Głos Narodu” and a tutor to a whole generation of journalists. He was probably the best expert in the field of social Catholicism in the interwar period. The author of numerous articles and books on this subject In 1945 he was appointed by cardinal Adam Stefan Sapiecha to be the first editor in chief of “Tygodnik Powszechny” (1945–1951).