Zadania duszpasterskie Kościoła w Polsce w świetle przemówień Jana Pawła II do biskupów polskich przybyłych z wizytą „ad limina Apostolorum” w 1998 r.

Abstract

Being based on invariable principles, pastorate has to be always sensitive to the changing circumstances of time and place. Hence, it faces the constant task of reading and recognizing “the signs of time” and searching for adequate responses to the world’s challenges. This is not an easy mission, which the Church in Poland finds out when it undertakes the difficult tasks of the transformation period. The pastoral directions for the Church in Poland contained in John Paul II's speeches to the Polish bishops who came to Rome with the “ad limina” visit provide assistance in this respect. Analysis of these speeches from the point of view of the most important tasks and challenges that the Church in Poland is facing on the eve of the Great Jubilee of the year 2000 is the content of the article.