Społeczny wymiar duszpasterskiego przepowiadania

Abstract

The main aim of this article is to show that besides the priestly activity the priest should also get involved in social life. We can distinguish two principal forms of the Church’s presence in social life. The first is the broadly understood teaching on the social sphere, and the second is taking particular action. In the light of the social teaching of the Church, man is the highest value in the world, and the family is the proper environment of man’s life and development. For this reason the Church realizes her social mission through the family. The family is a value not only for the individual, but also for the larger community, in this case for the state community. The question of the nation is essential and must be taken into account in pastoral social preaching. The nation creates conditions for man’s development, both through community and culture, on all the planes of development: - on the plane of the truth / intellectual development/, - on the plane of beauty / spiritual development/, - on the plane of the moral good / moral development/, - on the plane of holiness / religious development. The social teaching of the Church must also take into consideration the question of the state’s character, the state-church relation, as well as the question of the state system. The Church cannot but care about the conception of the state. Thus, the focus of the social teaching of the Church should be on such a system which enables people to achieve a proper living standard. Out of different social questions which are the symptom of the Church’s presence in life we can single out the human rights and the presence of Christian values in social life. The most important questions are raised here concerning man who is in the centre of the Church’s interest.