Rozwój i działalność żeńskich instytutów życia konsekrowanego i stowarzyszeń życia apostolskiego w Kościele katolickim w Szwecji

Abstract

Among many social trends in Sweden there is a little known, and hardly noticed one within the community of the Catholic Church. It has to do with the process of reviving or creating from scratch female Catholic religious orders or female Protestant ecumenical communities resembling the former in their aims and principles. The phenomenon has a rich and interesting sociological and psychological background. A scholar researching migratory phenomena is fascinated by the fact that in a country characterized by a very high level of emancipation and feminist awareness as well as a very clear-cut model of liberated woman, there are more and more cases of women finding their fulfillment in a diametrically different way of life. The revival of female religious communities is a sign of the times in a prosperous society, which shows that contemporary woman cannot find the fulfillment of her deepest human needs in the material and the social.