Studia Pastoralne
Rocznik Wydziału Teologicznego UŚ

THE CHURCH’S RESPONSE TO THE SIGNS OF THE CIVILIZATION OF DEATH IN THE BEGINNINGS OF THE HUMAN LIFE
Summary
Church – faithful to the mission commissioned by Christ – take successively the topics that appear throughout the history of mankind, which are the result of scientific development and progress of civilization, and increasing the possibility of interfering with the processes of life – from procreation, and the dying ending. Undoubtedly, the field of interference in human procreation is the one that because of the tremendous progres achieved and the personal good, especially endangered in its activities – requires special vigilance of the Church.
Therefore, in this publication is presented clear moral teaching of the Church concerning the abuses in the field of procreation. For the fundamental fraud, which became the subject of moral reflection should include: contraception, morning after pill, sterilization and abortion, in vitro fertilization and cloning.
It should be noted that all these issues related to human reproduction right contradict the Christian tradition for centuries, and above all the Church’s thought for contemporary view of marriage, family, sexuality and fertility. Break for inner unity, mutuality and the need for relationships between spouses, but also the relationships between parents and offspring. For this reason, must be evaluated negatively. These phenomena are in fact the opposite nature – sexuality without procreation on the one and procreation without sexuality on the other.
Keywords: abortion, church, cloning, contraception, in vitro fertilization, morning after pill, procreation, sterilization.

CHRISTIAN CULTURE OF CELEBRATION AND A CULTURAL IDENTITY OF EUROPE – CONTINUATION AND A BREAK-UP
Summary
The author’s reflection focuses on two major assumptions. First of all religious rituals and liturgies, which is a Christian culture of a feast and celebration, include a recollective, performative and identity-creating power. Second of all religious rituals have an impact on culture and therefore on a cultural identity. If today in Europe a new religious awakening is expected, then similarly to the past a special role in this process belongs to rituals. Christian culture of celebrating affects a universal culture by celebrating feasts as a “religious counterpoint”, which is opening our everyday life to a “different” and Divine time and a transcendent dimension, by emphasizing a human dignity of every person in the sacrament of baptism regardless sex or a social background and by a practice of humanism shown to the dying and the deceased. The author emphasizes that if at the beginning of the twenty first century religion is described as a cultural source of Europe, it is a Christian culture of celebrating that may become its communicator.

EHE UND FAMILIE UND DIE WANDLUNGEN IN DER KULTUR VON HEUTE.
Zusammenfassung
Der heutige Mensch, der die christliche Ehe- und Familienberufung verwirklicht, steht vor einer Wahl. Die Wandlungen, die sich in der Kultur vollzogen haben, zwingen, damit der Mensch Werte auswählt. Die traditionelle Kultur bietet das Modell der Ehe und der Familie an, das nicht von allen in der christlichen Welt Großgezogen akzeptiert wird. In der heutigen Kultur hat Bedeutung anderes Wertesystem. Es bieten Anti-Werte an als Alternative zu der christlichen Moral. Die Kämpfe um das christliche Modell des Lebens heißen Kultur des Lebens, in die konträren Anstrengungen Kultur des Todes.
Die jungen Menschen müssen – wollend, nicht wollend – eine Wahl vollbringen. Die Kirche steht vor einer Herausforderung, wie den jungen Leuten helfen, so dass sie – in der Welt der Kultur des Lebens und der Kultur des Todes lebend – die richtige Wahl vollbringen.