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Tam, Yik Fai. "Strategy and identity of a social movement organization : a case study of the Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese." HKBU Institutional Repository, 1993. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/10.
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Palmer, Douglas B. "The Republic of Grace: International Jansenism in the Age of enlightenment and Revolutions." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1090415628.
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Dames, Ann L. "“We are the Church”: A Roman Catholic Sister’s Narrative of Resistance and Plurality." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1276976799.
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Turkington, Mark. "The Catholic Education Office (CEO) as a learning organization and its perceived impact on standards." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2004. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/1deb431d2a4cb2ef985280087019cd4e2ee7efaca501bbdff709b069008c25fd/2415635/65120_downloaded_stream_345.pdf.
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The Catholic Education Office (CEO) Sydney is a large non-government education authority which administers the systemic, Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia. The system consists of 148 primary and secondary schools with an enrolment of some 62,000 students. The major research question was: What characteristics of a learning organization can be identified in the Catholic Education Office (CEO) Sydney and are these perceived to raise standards in systemic schools of the Archdiocese of Sydney? Like all western education systems the CEO Sydney is immersed in constant change and is expected to account for improving educational standards within the system. The learning organization with its emphasis on adaptability and continuous improvement was considered an appropriate framework within which to conduct this research. The study consisted of two main parts the first investigated the CEO Sydney as a learning organization using a survey questionnaire distributed, using a dedicated web site, to a sample of primary and secondary principals in the system and a smaller number of senior CEO Sydney personnel. The response rate was 91%. This was complemented by examination of relevant CEO Sydney documentation and policies. The definition of the learning organization adopted for the study consisted of eight characteristics each of which formed a scale in the questionnaire. The eight characteristics adopted were: 'Systemic Thinking and Mental Models', 'Continuous Improvement of Work', 'Taking Initiatives and Risks', 'Ongoing Professional Development', 'Trusting and Collaborative Climate', 'Shared and Monitored Vision/Mission', 'Effective Communication Channels' and 'Team Work and Team Learning'. This part of the study was essentially a quantitative one, with the data subjected to descriptive, statistical analysis complemented by some clarifying and contextualising qualitative data. The second part of the study investigated the perceived relationship between the CEO Sydney and its learning organization characteristics and the standards in three curriculum outcome areas (religious education, literacy and numeracy). This part of the study was also quantitative using descriptive statistics complemented by Pearson correlation, multiple regression and canonical correlational analyses. Once again some relevant contextualising qualitative data was gathered. Five demographic groups (gender, role, region (principals only), years of experience as a principal and age) were examined to see if there were any differences in the extent to which the various learning organization characteristics and curriculum outcomes were identified by each group. The results of this study indicated that the CEO Sydney exhibited many of the characteristics of a learning organization with particular strengths in 'Continuous Improvement of Work', 'Systemic Thinking and Mental Models' and 'Shared and Monitored Vision/Mission'. The weakest characteristic was 'Taking Initiatives and Risks'. Demographic group analysis of this data revealed that there were no statistically significant differences in the responses of the different demographic groups. The results also indicated that there were correlations between the CEO Sydney as a learning organization and raising standards particularly in religious education and literacy and less so in numeracy. Finally, the study made a number of recommendations for the further development of the CEO Sydney as a learning organization and ways that it can further raise standards in the schools of the system.
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Blanchard, Kelly. "Improving the Ministry of Pastoral Care during a Transitional Change in Leadership at a Catholic Church." Thesis, Saint Mary's College of California, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10742975.
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The pastoral care ministry in one Catholic parish recently experienced transitional leadership changes. The assignment of a different parish priest and new coordinators of the Pastoral Care Ministry presented the opportunity to explore new and diverse ideas for improvement in process, faith formation, and sustainable change. Implementing an action research inquiry (AIM) was a perfect opportunity to create synergy and cohesion for all involved and to explore what additional resources and support are needed with the ministry. Our results identified many improvements to continue to work on, but more importantly, through cycles of action and reflection we built relationships and developed a community of practice (COP) with the coordinators and the pastoral care ministers. Trust was established, allowing for vulnerability, new ideas, and confidence in our efforts to seek improvement, training, and faith formation within the group.
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O'Connor, James Richard. "The cathedral and collegiate chapters of canons their organization and responsibilities in the liturgy /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.
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Thrandardottir, Erla. "What makes NGOs legitimate? : an analysis of Amnesty International UK's, Greenpeace UK's and Cafod's legitimacy claims in the UK national context." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/what-makes-ngos-legitimate-an-analysis-of-amnesty-international-uks-greenpeace-uks-and-cafods-legitimacy-claims-in-the-uk-national-context(2ee6e680-4a18-4bb0-b3dd-7923bed7bdf2).html.
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This thesis examines how non-governmental organisations (NGOs) claim legitimacy in the UK national context with the aim of increasing the understanding of how NGOs’ access to power is justified. The thesis argues that the limits of current theories on NGOs and legitimacy do not enable proper scrutiny of the organisational complexities involved and proposes that Beetham’s approach to legitimacy is more fruitful. A Beethamite analysis is based on scrutinising NGOs’ legitimacy-in-context. This involves examining NGOs’ normative structures and internal organisation of power in order to explain and assess their legitimacy claims. It explores the legitimacy claims of three UK NGOs by applying a Beethamite analysis to interrogate their legitimacy claims. The NGOs that are my unit of analysis are enmeshed in complex organisational hierarchies that extend beyond the UK territory. Understanding the internal organisation of power in these hierarchies is important for identifying legitimacy sources that underpin NGOs’ legitimacy claims. The three NGOs are Amnesty International UK, Greenpeace UK and Cafod. The case study of Amnesty International UK shows how the legitimation of power is justified internally where the members of the UK section legitimise the representational powers of the International Secretariat. This is contrasted with the normative sources of legitimacy that are more commonly used to justify Amnesty International UK's legitimacy claims and which ignore members as an important source of authority. The analysis in the case study of Greenpeace UK demonstrates how it is a representative unit of Greenpeace International. It also highlights how scientific knowledge has become a legitimacy source that justifies Greenpeace UK's legitimacy claims with implications for how to assess their legitimacy claims. The case study of Cafod analyses how Cafod claims legitimacy as a Catholic agency and how it is institutionally embedded in the Holy See. Cafod is primarily a social agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. The case study demonstrates how Cafod's sources of legitimacy are primarily Catholic and that this causes legitimacy problems when Cafod uses secular rather than theological sources of legitimacy to justify its policies. One of the main conclusions of the thesis is that a differentiated approach is needed for analysing NGOs’ legitimacy claims, one that takes into consideration the context of NGOs’ legitimacy claims, their internal process of legitimation and their sources of legitimacy, when assessing their access to power. The lack of an appropriate regulatory framework, and in particular the systematic exclusion of politically oriented NGOs by UK regulators, hinders the advancement of proper assessment and understanding of NGOs’ role in society.
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O'Shaughnessy, Kaitlin. "Redefining organization in the 21st century the communicative constitution of a children's ministry social movement organization /." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1709280371&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Jozwiak, Lawrence W. "Marriage encounter as a private association of the Christian faithful." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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Marshall, Phillip D. "Breaking the silence the development and implementation by SIM International of a strategy to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Dunlop, Joseph. "La Relève : Catholic intellectuals in Quebec, 1930-1950." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:87a80921-1aa8-4324-9afa-000b2572581b.
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This study traces the intellectual and political itinerary of the review La Relève, an influential cultural journal in 1930s and ‘40s Quebec, in order to explore broader trends within francophone Catholicism in the middle decades of the twentieth century. La Relève enjoyed a unique role as a propagator of French Catholic thought in Quebec due to its close ties with the prominent French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain. In the early ‘30s, members of the Relève group espoused a militant Catholicism with conservative-minded nationalist sympathies. The group’s encounter with Maritain in October 1934, however, moved La Relève towards a more communitarian Catholicism which was open to social and religious pluralism. During the later ‘30s, the Relèvistes would display a new interest in democratic forms of politics, reflecting the larger ‘democratic turn’ evident amongst many francophone Catholic intellectuals. In examining this shift, this study argues that the progressive Catholicism embraced by La Relève remained strongly rooted in longstanding Catholic social teachings and mentalities, thereby shedding light upon the political trajectory of the larger French Catholic Revival during this period. The emergence of a ‘Left’ Catholicism in France and Quebec was the result of a gradual and often contradictory process in which new attempts to engage with pluralism, democracy and human rights were heavily influenced by the traditionally anti-liberal and anti-individualistic perspectives of Catholic social and political thought. This study also examines the social and cultural environment of Catholic intellectual engagement in Quebec during this period, focusing upon the role played by friendship in defining the experiences of the Relève circle during the 1930s and ‘40s. Initially the product of a close-knit and often cliquish group of former schoolmates, La Relève provided a forum for masculine solidarity and shared intellectual and religious pursuits. The Relèvistes' conception of friendship expanded over the course of the decade, reflecting their exposure to the ideas of the French Catholic intelligentsia, for whom the idea of friendship signalled a wider community bound together by common religious, social and political goals. During the war years, the Relève group came to play a new role within the larger francophone Catholic intellectual community, founding a publishing company which printed numerous anti-fascist Catholic authors. In the postwar period, however, contact with the European intellectual milieu diminished, as the review closed in 1948 and the Relèvistes embraced new trends in Catholic thought which ultimately distanced them from Maritain. However, intellectual engagement with French Catholic thought would continue on in Quebec through the review Cité libre, which would play an important role in shaping politics and society in Quebec and Canada during the later twentieth century.
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Fortin, Amanda Michelle. "Exploring Communicative Aspects of Client Satisfaction, Loyalty, and Retention in a Private, Non-profit Organization: A Qualitative, Interview-Based Study of Catholic Charities." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1695.
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This thesis focuses on Catholic Charities (Hereafter CC), a non-profit agency that provides pregnancy and adoption support to families in times of crisis. Research and agency data reflect a positive association between the amount of time clients engage in services and the resolution of crises. Both theoretically and empirically, a key determinant of the depth and breadth of clients' engagement with both for-profit and non-profit services is their satisfaction with such services. In 2009-2010, CC's in-house, client surveys reported a decreasing level of client engagement with services. One clear trend was that clients discontinued services after thirty days or less. Against this trend, CC aims to provide social services for an extended period of time (i.e. longer than thirty days) in order to insure that clients have fully recovered from crises. In order to understand possible reasons for clients' low or short engagement rates, this thesis analyzes clients' satisfaction with CC services. Using a grounded-theory approach, twenty semi-structured interviews with former and current CC clients were analyzed for communication-based themes involving clients' satisfaction with services. Four macro-themes emerged: (1) Positive Caseworker Personality, (2) Feeling Emotionally Supported, (3) Feeling Helped, and (4) Positive Counseling Environment. Findings have implications for both theories of satisfaction and the offering and practice of CC services.
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Jorge, Pedro Henrique Souza. "Adultos na fé: os rituais de passagem de católicos e presbiterianos e o posicionamento dos iniciados em relação ao sincretismo religioso." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2009. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4364.
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Essa dissertação compara os processos de construção identitária das igrejas católica e presbiteriana e a socialização dos fiéis em cada uma delas para identificar a influência desses fatores nas atitudes de católicos e presbiterianos frente ao sincretismo religioso. A adesão à igreja católica é, via de regra, definida em termos da participação nos sacramentos. Nessa identidade sacramental preconiza-se o aspecto encantado e místico sobre o intelectual e a unidade dogmática tende a desempenhar um papel secundário. Contrariamente, no caso do protestantismo a identidade tende a ser definida em termos intelectuais, já que o critério para a participação é a confissão a reta doutrina tal como está definida nas confissões de fé. Além disso, as diferenças organizacionais entre as duas igrejas parecem interferir nesse processo de formação das identidades. A igreja católica, por concentrar em uma imensa unidade as diversas maneiras de se aderir a ela, pode ser classificada como uma organização de massas. Já a igreja presbiteriana mais parece uma organização de quadros, menor, mais inflexível à diversidade, ela doutrina seus quadros internamente através da Escola Bíblica Dominical. Para entender a sociabilidade e educação religiosa de cada igreja escolhi estudar dois grupos de preparação para rituais homólogos: a Crisma no caso católico e a Pública Profissão de Fé no caso presbiteriano. Ambos podem ser classificados como ritos de iniciação, pois dramatizam a passagem dos fiéis da infância para a maturidade espiritual.Uma vez adultos na fé, tanto católicos quanto presbiterianos, deveriam, segundo a visão institucional, repudiar ao sincretismo religioso, pois não se pode servir a dois senhores. Mas será que essa rejeição ao sincretismo de fato acontece? Se não, de que formas ele se manifesta entre católicos e presbiterianos? São essas as perguntas que pretendo responder.This Masters thesis compares Catholic and Presbyterian churches identity construction processes and the socialization up each of these churches in order to identify the influence of these factors on Catholic and Presbyterian faithfulls attitudes toward religious syncretism. A person is considered as a member of Catholic church if receives Catholic sacraments. This sacramental identity values more the enchantment aspect of faith over the intellectual, also it plays down the faithfulls intellectual adherence to church dogma. In contrast, in Protestantism a church identity is defined in intellectual terms. To be a member of a church is to confess the doctrine defined as right by this church. In addition, organizational differences of the Catholic and Presbyterian churches seem to affect these distinct identity construction processes. Due to its ability to include in a same huge unity a large diversity of being religious, the Catholic Church can be classified as a igreja de massa (or church for the mass while the Prebyterian church organization can be identified as igreja de quadros (or church for leadership). Smaller, more inflexible toward diversity than Catholic Church, the Presbyterian one indoctrinates their members within the church through Bible Sunday School. In order to understand the sociability and religious education processes in each church, I choose to research two preparatory study groups for similar rites of passage: the ritual of Confirmation, for the Catholic case, and the ritual of Public Profession of Faith, for the Presbyterian. Both can be identified as iniciation rituals because both dramatize the passage of the faithful from Spiritual childhood to Spiritual maturity. Once being adult in faith, both catholics and presbyterians must, acording to their institucional views, repudiate religious syncretism, because one cannot serve two Masters. Would religious syncrestim rejections in fact occur equally in both churches? If not, what differs catholics from presbyterians? These are questions I intend to answer.
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Usher, John Joseph. "Taking control : a study of fifteen low income families living in western Sydney who were involved in a community social work project sponsored by the Catholic Church between 1979 and 1987." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1989. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26393.
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This exploratory reseach study involved the members of fifteen multi-problem, low income families. These families were part of a community social work project sponsored by the Catholic church in western Sydney. Key members of these families were interviewed on eight separate occasions between 1979 and 1987.
A critical analysis of the social and political contexts in which this community project operated was also undertaken. Certain constraints that mitigate against empowerment for devalued people were identified. Specific constraints were noted within the social work profession and within the Catholic church's social welfare practice.
Consciousness of these social and political constraints had an influence on the nature of the interventions that were made with the participants in the project. These interventions created a " sense of belonging or collectivity amongst the participants. The interventions also endeavoured to help them to understand the ‘ true nature of the social and political constraints that were mitigating against their well being. The participants were encouraged to act on their new consciousness.
The study identified certain changes in the attitudes, behaviours and the use language of the member of the fifteen families who were selected for observation. These observations may help the managers of social work progress to come to a better understanding of the process of empowerment for devalued people.
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Lenhard, Katie Marie. "The Historical Debate Among Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on the Topic of the United Nations." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2002. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4875.
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Since the inception of the United Nations in 1945, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have made public statements regarding the international peace and security organization. To the confusion of many Church members, who often look to their leaders for prophetic guidance on numerous spiritual and temporal topics, these statements have been conflicting. Some Church leaders have clearly opposed the United Nations and others have openly supported it, offering various ideological explanations for their beliefs. Yet, it is evident that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has never made an official position on the topic of the United Nations. Church members are free to exercise their agency and either oppose or support the organization as they deem necessary. Regardless of personal opinions, a relationship has emerged between the Church and the United Nations in the past few decades through joint humanitarian efforts, as well as official and unofficial interactions. Since the United Nations is most likely a permanent fixture of the political world, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is concerned with topics of international importance, it appears this relationship will continue to blossom throughout the future.
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Monge, Morales Gonzalo J. "A look at Constitutional Law through International Law. Interview with Juan José Ruda Santolaria." THĒMIS-Revista de Derecho, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/109349.
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What is the normative status of a treaty in Peruvian domestic law? What would happen at theinternational level if the Peruvian ConstitutionalCourt declared a treaty to be unconstitutional? How to interpret Peruvian maritime domain, asrecognized in our Constitution, after the ruling of the International Court of Justice on the maritimedifferendum with Chile?These issues don’t only concern Constitutional Law; thus, in this interview, the renowned professor provides us with, from the standpoint of International Law, answers about these and other issues, but he also illustrates us about the implications for Peru of the aforementioned Court’sruling, delivered more than a year ago.¿Cuál es el rango normativo de un tratado en el Derecho interno peruano? ¿Qué ocurriría en el ámbito internacional si el Tribunal Constitucional peruano declarara inconstitucional un tratado?¿Cómo entender el dominio marítimo del Perú, reconocido en nuestra Constitución, luego del fallode la Corte Internacional de Justicia sobre el diferendo marítimo con Chile?Estas cuestiones no pertenecen únicamente al Derecho Constitucional; por ello, en la presente entrevista, el reconocido profesor nos brinda desde el Derecho Internacional respuestas sobre estos y otros temas, así como también nos ilustra acerca de las implicancias para el Perú del mencionado fallode la Corte, a más de un año de haber sido dictado.
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Dragovic, Denis. "Rethinking the role of Roman Catholic and Sunni Islamic institutions in post-conflict state building." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6136.
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This thesis develops a model that can be used to assess the ability of religious institutions to contribute to post-conflict state building. Highlighting the tendency in state building literature to stop short in discussing what seems to be inferred, but unnameable—religion—the research proposes a framework that identifies theoretical mechanisms through which religious institutions can contribute to post-conflict state building. Drawing from the theologies of Roman Catholicism and Sunni Islam the thesis then reflects upon why they would, of their own accord, lend their considerable legitimacy and resources. The thesis diverges from traditional approaches such as rational choice theory that suggest religious institutions act to maximise membership or assets, and instead embraces a teleological view recognizing the importance of belief structures in understanding a religious institution's motivations. It embraces salvation as a hermeneutical key to outline a Roman Catholic theology of state building while drawing upon the concept of justice for Sunni Islam. The thesis concludes by incorporating the particularistic nuances of Bosnia and Herzegovina's unique historically and culturally influenced religious practices, structures and theologies to suggest the ability and willingness of the two religions' institutions to contribute to their country's state building.
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Barnabé, Gabriel Ribeiro. "Summi Pontificatus = as relações internacionais da Santa Sé sob Pio XII." [s.n.], 2011. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280912.
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Orientador: Roberto Romano da SilvaTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: A pesquisa liga-se ao estudo das relações internacionais da Santa Sé. Considerando que essas se operam como relações entre a Igreja e o Estado, analiso, no primeiro capítulo, as principais teorias que as explicam. Primeiramente caracterizo as quatro propriedades da Igreja (una, santa, católica e apostólica), das quais se destaca a catolicidade, isto é, a universalidade, que a move em missão internacional por todo o mundo. Em seguida, comento a teoria da plenitudo potestatis papae, as analogias de Tomás de Aquino sobre o assunto, a teoria do poder indireto, cujo maior sistematizador foi o Cardeal Roberto Bellarmino, e a teoria da societas perfecta. No segundo capítulo, destinado a discorrer sobre a política concordatária da Santa Sé, trato do Código de Direito Canônico de 1917, da natureza jurídica das concordatas, da Lei das Garantias, do Tratado de Latrão e da Quas Prima, de Pio XI. O último capítulo dedico ao estudo da teoria e da prática de relações internacionais do Papa Pio XII, que participou do período em que a Santa Sé estabeleceu o maior número de concordatas e cujo pontificado ocorreu em uma das épocas mais dramáticas da história das relações internacionais. Inicialmente, apresento uma visão ampla dos principais acontecimentos históricos da primeira metade do século XX e também um estudo sobre o número de mortos em guerras e revoluções. Em seguida, analiso a encíclica Summi Pontificatus, de Pio XII, que se constitui como a principal referência de seu pensamento sobre a ordem internacional de sua época e também sintetiza o Magistério da Igreja e de seus doutores sobre a sociedade humana e as relações internacionais. Apresento, ainda, as mensagens de Natal de Pio XII, algumas das concordatas firmadas ou conduzidas por ele e as linhas mestras de sua grande contribuição para a Bioética. Na última seção, faço algumas considerações sobre as múltiplas imagens do mito de Pio XII. Concluo que embora a Igreja, em suas relações com os Estados, opere uma acomodação tensa, ela ao mesmo tempo reivindica tudo o que considera como seu campo de missão ética
Abstract: The research relates to the study of the international relations of the Holy See. Considering that these operate as relations between Church and State, throughout the first chapter I analyze the main theories that explain them. Firstly, I characterize the four main features of the Church (one, holy, catholic and apostolic), from which highlights the catholicity, that is, the universality, which moves it in international mission around the world. Afterwards, I comment on the theory of plenitudo potestatis papae, the analogies of Thomas Aquinas on said subject, the theory of indirect power, whose greatest systematizer was Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, and the theory of societas perfecta. On the second chapter, intended to develop on the concordist policy of the Holy See, I discuss the Code of Canon Law of 1917, the legal nature of the concordats, the Law of Guarantees, the Lateran Treaty and Pius XI's Quas Prima. The last chapter is devoted to the study of the theory and practice of Pope Pius XII's international relations, given he participated in the period in which the Holy See established the largest number of concordats and whose pontificate coexisted during the most dramatic times in the history of international relations. Initially, I present a broad overview of the major historical events of the first half of the twentieth century and also a study on the number of deaths in wars and revolutions. After, I examine the encyclical Summi Pontificatus of Pius XII, which is considered the main reference of his thinking on the international order of his time and also summarizes the Church's Magisterium as well as its doctors on human society and international relations. I also introduce Pius XII's Christmas messages, some of the concordats signed or conducted by him and the guiding lines of his great contribution to bioethics. In the last section, I present a few considerations about the multiple images of the myth of Pius XII. I conclude that although the Church in her States relations operates a tense accommodation, at the same time she claims everything she regards as being in her field of ethical mission
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Doležal, Tomáš. "Koncepty kulturní a náboženské identity v oboru MV. Případ evropské identity v interakcích EU a Římskokatolické církve." Doctoral thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-359995.
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The text deals with the relation between religion and politics, in particular, with the conceptualization of religious identity in the discipline of International Relations from the position of postmodern approaches. The main goal is to examine whether and how feasible, useful, and usual is to work with the religious (and inseparable cultural) dimension of identity. The author claims that the concept of religious identity well reveals an important link between the religious and the political and represents a useful analytical tool. A categorisation and a model of identity are introduced and applied. The application is twofold, the categories are used in the academic discourse analysis and then once again it is used for the case of European identity in interactions of the EU and the RCC. Finally, the concept of the religious actor is discussed on this empirical basis and also the political construction of the religious, in general, is debated.
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Silva, Severina Madalena da. "Do convento a um barraco na “Planeta dos Macacos”: a participação das irmãs Beneditinas da Virgem Maria no movimento político de organização social das favelas do Recife (1970-1980)." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2018. http://tede2.unicap.br:8080/handle/tede/977.
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The focus of this research was the investigation of the participation of the Catholic Church through the engagement of a group of sisters and postulants of the Congregation of the Benedictines of the Virgin Mary in the Slum Movement active in the mid-70s and 80s of the 20th century in the region Metropolitan of Recife, focusing on the community now known as Planet of the Apes, located in the neighborhood of Jardim São Paulo. It sought to discern the dialogical relationship between the social challenges of that moment and the symbolic contents of the Catholic religion, as interpreted and lived during the episcopate of Dom Helder Pessoa Camara (1964- 1985). The question that was asked was how the Congregation of the Benedictine Sisters of the Virgin Mary was involved, through non-assistential social actions, in the transformation of an occupation into a community, in the troubled political scenario that was our country. For this, bibliographical research was used, with authors representing Liberation Theology, and the exploitation of documentary and imagery records deposited over the years in the archives of the Community Center of the Planet of the Apes Community.
O foco dessa pesquisa foi a investigação da participação da Igreja Católica, através do engajamento de um grupo de irmãs e postulantes da Congregação das Beneditinas da Virgem Maria, no Movimento de Favelas ativo em meados das décadas de 70 e 80 do século XX, na região metropolitana do Recife, tendo como foco a comunidade hoje conhecida como Planeta dos Macacos, situada no bairro de Jardim São Paulo. Buscou-se discernir a relação dialógica entre os desafios sociais daquele momento e os conteúdos simbólicos da religião católica, tais como interpretados e vividos durante o episcopado de Dom Helder Pessoa Camara (1964- 1985). A pergunta a que se buscou responder foi como a Congregação das Irmãs Beneditinas da Virgem Maria envolveu-se, através de ações sociais não assistencialistas, na transformação de uma ocupação em uma comunidade, no conturbado cenário político em que se encontrava nosso país. Para isso, recorreu-se à pesquisa bibliográfica, com autores representantes da Teologia da Libertação, e à exploração de registros documentais e imagéticos depositados, ao longo desses anos, nos arquivos do Centro Comunitário da Comunidade Planeta dos Macacos.
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Arruda, Glair Alonso. "“Sempre haverá pobres na terra”: os desafios da pobreza na América Latina dentro do novo paradigma de missão cristã segundo o Pacto de Lausanne e a Gaudium et Spes." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21734.
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The purpose of this study was to analyze two official documents of Christianity promulgated in the 1960s and 1970s, namely the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes in Catholicism and the Lausanne Covennant in Protestantism, with a focus on poverty in Latin America, using a bibliographical and documentary research methodology. Main theoretical references included the sociology of Max Weber in analyzing the motivations behind the documents, and the missiology of David Bosch to study the historical and theological contexts. The dissertation is structured in three chapters. In the first, we analyse the context that defines the conception of Christianity regarding the mission of the church in the nineteenth century, as well as the way in which the two Christian perspectives viewed the question of poverty. The second chapter analyzes the two documents and their social, political, and economic context of the mid-twentieth century and identifies the conception of poverty within the mission context in a new paradigm, missio Dei, which classifies poverty as an institutional and structural problem in both Christian perspectives. In the third chapter, we analyze the theoretical implications and the contradictions that the new paradigm brings to the question of the poverty of the Latin American populations, the practical repercussions with the organization of the Ecclesial Base Communities, Liberation Theology and Theology of the Integral Mission
O presente estudo teve como objetivo realizar uma análise de dois documentos oficiais do cristianismo promulgados nas décadas de 1960-1970, a saber, a Constituição Pastoral Gaudium et Spes no catolicismo, e o Pacto de Lausanne, no protestantismo, tendo como eixo a questão da pobreza na América Latina, pela metodologia da pesquisa bibliográfica e documental. Utilizou-se como referenciais teóricos principais a sociologia de Max Weber para análise das motivações por trás dos documentos e a missiologia de David Bosch que orientaram o estudo dos contextos históricos e teológicos. A dissertação foi estruturada em três capítulos. No primeiro, foram verificados os contextos que definiram a concepção do cristianismo quanto à missão da Igreja no século XIX, e analisada a maneira como as duas vertentes cristãs se posicionavam quanto à questão da pobreza. O segundo capítulo analisa os dois documentos e seu contexto social, político, econômico de meados do século XX e identifica a concepção de pobreza dentro do contexto de missão em novo paradigma, a missio Dei, para ambas as vertentes cristãs, identificando a pobreza como um problema institucional e estrutural. No terceiro capítulo, são analisadas as implicações teóricas e as contradições que o novo paradigma acarreta para a questão da pobreza das populações latino-americanas, as repercussões práticas com a organização das Comunidades Eclesiais de Base, da Teologia da Libertação e da Teologia da Missão Integral
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Muñoz, Torreblanca Marina. "La recepción de "lo primitivo" en las exposiciones celebradas en España hasta 1929." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7450.
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En España, al igual que en el resto de países europeos a finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX, se hace exhibición de "lo primitivo": personas (indígenas procedentes de los nuevos territorios colonizados) y objetos (piezas de arte y artefactos de la cultura material de los indígenas procedentes de las colonias). Algunas de estas muestras coinciden con las primeras exposiciones organizadas en España: Exposición General de las Islas Filipinas en Madrid (1887), Exposición Universal de Barcelona (1888) y Exposición Internacional de Barcelona (1929). El presente trabajo analiza la presencia o ausencia de "lo primitivo" (personas y objetos) en los principales acontecimientos expositivos españoles, su relación con acontecimientos homónimos en otros países europeos y su posible recepción en colecciones museísticas (museos de antropología, etnología y misionales).In Spain, as in the rest of European countries at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, aboriginal from the new colonized territories and "primitive" objects (art and artefacts from the material culture of the colonies) were also exhibited. Some of these events coincide with the first organized Exhibitions in Spain: General Exhibition of the Philippines Islands in Madrid (1887), Barcelona World Exhibition (1888) and Barcelona International Exhibition (1929). This work analyzes the presence or absence of "the primitive" (people and objects) in the major Spanish exhibitions, the relationship with similar events in other European countries and the possible reception in museum collections (museums of anthropology, ethnology and missionary).
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STUMMVOLL, Albert Alexander. "A living tradition : the Holy See, Catholic social doctrine, and global politics, 1965-2000." Doctoral thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/25195.
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Examining Board: Dr. Mariano Barbato, Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca/ Universität Passau; Professor Friedrich Kratochwil, European University Institute (Supervisor); Professor Olivier Roy, European University Institute; Dr. Scott Thomas, University of Bath/University of London, Heythrop College (External CoSupervisor).Defence date: 30 November 2012
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In this thesis I explore the question of how the Holy See translates its own normative vision into concrete diplomatic practice. Drawing upon Alasdair MacIntyre’s concept of a ‘living tradition’, I argue that Catholic Social Doctrine (CSD) is an exemplary case of a ‘historically extended, socially embodied argument’ about the good life that provides the Holy See with a source of inspiration and advice, shapes its perception of global politics, constitutes its identity and preferences, and constrains its diplomatic practice. However, due to its ‘living’ nature, CSD does not provide blueprints for action and falls short of determining papal diplomacy in global politics. A living religious tradition needs to be inherited, interpreted, and incarnated. This process is complicated and leads to political and ethical policy dilemmas as well as to changing patterns of conflict and cooperation with other international actors. I will examine this problematique in the context of four major case studies of papal diplomacy in the post-Second Vatican Council era: the Vietnam War, the Polish crisis in the early 1980s, the United Nations (UN) conferences on population control and women in Cairo and Beijing in the mid-1990s, and the Jubilee 2000 anti-debt campaign. My research findings have four broader implications. First, they will lay out a more fine-tuned approach to the study of religious traditions in IR. Second, they suggest a need for the field of religion and politics to avoid reducing the impact of religious ideas and practices to their causal impact on outcomes. Third, they undermine the analytical accurateness of widespread invocations of ‘holy alliance’ arguments for characterising Holy See diplomacy. Fourth, they provide good reasons for a more holistic perspective on CSD in particular and religion and politics in general.
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Huang, Chi Pin, and 黃嘉斌. "A case study of the Marketing of Nonprofit Organization: The Evangelization of Catholic Church in Kaohsiung." Thesis, 1993. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82743089716133329233.
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The main purpose of this thesis is to explore the evangelization operation of the selected three case churches in order to produce some marketing implications for Catholic Church and give some suggestions to these churches. Two steps are adopted to fulfill the purpose above: First, A pilot case was held to refine the data collection frameworks with respect to both the content of the data and the procedures to be followed. Second, after conducting the whole case study for the individual church thoroughly followed by the data collection frameworks developed above, 18 pertinent propositions are developed for further inquiry. The temporary conclusions of this study are listed below: 1.The major difference between the profit organization marketing and the church marketing is in the latter case, marketing does not require that church alter its theology, doctrines to meet market demands. 2.The successful churches make a concerted effort to discover, understand, and serve the needs of their namely, more marketing orientation. 3.Churches face numerous form of competition from other religious activities, job and examination, sports, and the leisure. 4.Beyond shared vision, a successful church will desire the pastor give a variety of opportunities to get church involved in the development and production of their And suggestions for churches under studied are: 1.After understanding the mission of whole Catholic Church, the individual church can specify its own vision to further marketing action.2.The individual church should adopt marketing orientation fast to build up the preference of cusfomers toward activities by conducting research to understand customer''s and devising new activities to satisty their needs.
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LI, HUANG-YU, and 利煌玉. "The Youth Service-Learning Activity, Organization Operation and Identity--- A Study Based on the Volunteer Group of Chang-Bin Catholic Church." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/p55gea.
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The purpose of this study is to understand the service-learning activities by a volunteering youth group at the Chang-bin Catholic Church in Taitung County. to explore their operation and to understand the formation of their organizational idenity. By aiming the Chang-bin Catholic Church in Taidung County and the participants of the youth volunteers there as my study pool, I have interviewed total 20 participants from July 2013 through July 2014. The main conclusions are as follows: Among the organizational operation at the Chang-bin Catholic Church, its mission establishment, consolidating human resources, equipment and finance through the service-learning activities, training volunteers with reflective thinking, discussion, sharing and vocal expression to let all members have a chance to self-reflect on themselves were achieved. This volunteer group had no strict rules to bond them but all came from their own will. Their commitment to serve and mutual caring were evident during their pursuit for the team goal – common glory and belongings. The “family –like” environment and the community heritage ensured a strong organizational identity.
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Pries, Kari Mariska. "Repression, freedom, and minimal geography: human rights, humanitarian law, and Canadian involvement in El Salvador, 1977-1984." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/827.
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This thesis addresses the potential for third parties to apply or make use of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law to protect civilians caught in the midst of civil war. A case study is presented of El Salvador, where conflict in the 1970s and 1980s took the lives of an estimated 75,000 people and caused immense human suffering. Of particular interest is how organizations under the aegis of the Salvadoran Catholic Church provided data on human rights violations, gathered with credible precision, to the international community. The Canadian public responded to the situation in El Salvador in a markedly different way than the Canadian government, whose pronouncements were at first ill-informed and uncritically pro-American. The question thus arises: do counter-consensus or public-pressure groups exert any influence over a state’s foreign policy and, if so, does this phenomenon contribute to conflict resolution? While there is disagreement over the actual success that public groups and interested parties have over government decision-making, this thesis demonstrates that, in fact, the counter-consensus in Canada did have a discernable impact on foreign policy during the Salvadoran conflict. These actions have potential contributions to make to conflict resolution and the search for a negotiated end to civil strife, which in the case of El Salvador was generated in the first place not by an alleged international communist conspiracy but by crippling geographies of inequality.Thesis (Master, Geography) -- Queen's University, 2007-09-26 11:52:47.301
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BARBOŘÁK, Jiří. "Perzekuce Římskokatolické církve na Zlínsku Komunistickou Stranou Československa v letech 1948-1960 z pohledu archivních dokumentů." Master's thesis, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-48820.
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As the topic for my diploma thesis I{\crq}ve chosen The Persecution of the Zlín-district-bound Roman Catholic Church by the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia in 1948 {--} 1960 from the Viewpoint of Archival Documents. I{\crq}ve set up two goals for this thesis. The primary goal of this work is to map the fates of each church organization, institution and order that were present in then Gottwaldov {--} Zlín district. The secondary goal, which serves as a complement to the primary one, is to show a fracture of the anti-church measurements, which the Gottwaldov-district-bound church was struck by, and the attitude of clergymen as well as that of laics towards them. The thesis is divided into several thematic fields, which depict individual areas of local church{\crq}s prosecution.
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KÁLALOVÁ, Lucie. "Vývoj prostorové organizace římskokatolické církve v českobudějovické diecézi od vzniku Československa." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-137838.
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This diploma thesis deals with changes of the spatial organization of the Roman Catholic Church in the Czech Republic with specialization in Diocese of České Budějovice. It follows the territorial development of this diocese from the emergence of Czechoslovakia to the defined present time period and with a comparison with changing territorial- administrative division of the country, historical-political and demographic development in the company is looking for reasons for changes in territorial-administrative division of the Roman Catholic Church. The part of the diploma thesis are thematic maps, which picture the spatial organization of the Roman Catholic Church in the Czech Republic and Diocese of České Budějovice, which is examined, including comparison with the territorial-administrative division of the country.
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Vejvar, Stanislav. "Dějiny tělovýchovné organizace Orel v Čechách 1909-1948." Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-342305.
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History of sports organization Orel in Bohemia between 1909 - 1948 In 1909, originated in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia sports organization Orel (the Eagle). Unified associations, which for Catholics organized gymnastic activities. Her ancestors were St. Joseph's unity, the Catholic companions and Christian Social gymnastic unions. Czech members of Eagle had a model of the Slovenian Catholic Orel, which was founded in Slovenia on beginning of 20th century by a priest and politician Jan Evangelista Krek. Organization of Orel established in the times of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, in the times of Czechoslovak republic (1918 - 1938) greatly intensified throughout the country, in 1935 reached over 160,000 members. Lifelong mayor of Orel was Msgr. Jan Šrámek, a Catholic priest and politician. Orel ran physical education for men, women, youth and pupils in the Christian spirit. Exercises organized in local groups and two major rallies: international gymnastic festival in 1922 in Brno and St. Wenceslaus days of Orel in 1929 in Prague. Orel maintained contacts with foreign gymnastic and sports Christian societies, became a member of FICEP (Catholic International Gymnastics Federation). Organized tours for foreign rallies (f. e. to France, Yugoslavia and Poland). In times of danger of Czechoslovakia by Nazi...
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Pavlíček, Viktor. "Důvody pozdního připojení rakouské a československé Starokatolické církve k Utrechtské unii." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-353647.
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The main task of this work is to present the relationship between the Old Catholic Church of Austria and the Union of Utrecht in the period 1889 - 1925. Other topics are the circumstances of the foundation of the Union of Utrecht and the Old Catholic churches cooperation within the union and contacts with other confessions as well. The first part presents the circumstances of the foundation of the Union of Utrecht and is based primarily on the fundamental theses defining the Union. This part is also focused on the phenomenon of congresses, synods and episcopal conferences, which are the main symbol of the Old Catholic churches. The part of it is also the question of joining the Old Catholic Church of Austria with the Union of Utrecht, which was one of the main themes of this work to be solved by the analysis of archival documents. The next section deals with issues of episcopal office, mainly of appointing the office of the Old Catholic Bishopric of Austria. One of the aims of this part is also to determine whether the filling of the office of bishopric was the condition of the affiliation of the church with the Union of Utrecht. The last part is aimed at the issues of the Old Catholic churches' cooperation, mainly dealing with specific cases of cooperation between Old Catholic Church of Austria...
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Nagy-Ajtai, Erzsébet. "Study of the work of the Hungarian Baptist Aid with a special stress on the relationship between the social responsibility and evangelism." Diss., 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2480.
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In this study we studied how holistic mission should be accomplished. May we speak about social and evangelical mandates? This search is done through the examination of a Christian relief organisation, the Hungarian Baptist Aid. Our main research question was: Is the work of this service holistic?
Although we concluded in the light of David Bosch's mission interpretation that their mission is not yet holistic, the model of Hungarian Baptist Aid is encouraging how we could multiply our resources that are placed in God's hand. How we can see a commission that seemed impossible can become possible, and how we can find our way in God's mission.Christian Spirituality, Curch History and Missiology
M. Th. (Missiology)