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How The Spiritan Mission And Spirituality Can Bring Hope Today, Igono Abel Raphael Cssp

Spiritan Horizons

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Women’S Peace Agency: Reading Africae Munus In The Framework Of Emilie Townes’ Womanist Ethics And The Cultural Production Of Evil, Leonard N. Zifac

Graduate Student Research Symposium

This paper employs Emilie M. Townes's womanist ethical framework—particularly her concept of the "cultural production of evil"—to critically examine Pope Benedict XVI's post-synodal exhortation Africae Munus (2011) and its treatment of African women's agency in peacebuilding. While Africae Munus calls the Church in Africa to serve reconciliation, justice, and peace, and acknowledges women's dignity and contributions to family and community life, the document largely confines women's roles to maternal, supportive, and domestic spheres without adequately challenging the patriarchal structures that systematically marginalize women from strategic leadership and formal peace processes. Drawing on Townes's analysis of how cultural narratives, religious discourse, …

An Ancient And Future Model Of Ecclesial Ministry: Exploring Insights From African Ecclesiology For A Revitalized Understanding Of The Catechist In The Amecea Region, Fortunatus Mugisha

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The ministry of the catechist has historically been an enduring and transformative ministry in the life of the Church in Africa, particularly in the AMECEA region. Within the AMECEA region (Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa), catechists have ministered not merely as transmitters of the faith but as the “unsung heroes and heroines” and vital agents of evangelization, pastoral care, and community leadership serving as the local face of the Church. This dissertation, relying on the insights from African ecclesiologies, proposes a renewed theological and pastoral understanding of the catechist as an ancient and future model of ecclesial …

The Synod: A Journey Through Inculturation To Contextuality, George Worgul

Spiritan Horizons

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A Raced Theology Of The Human Person: An Expanded Theological Anthropology, Cary W. Dabney

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation focuses on race as a critical, yet largely unaddressed, topic in Catholic theological anthropology. In Catholic colleges and universities that are recognized as members of the Cardinal Newman Society, theological concerns about race are deemed irrelevant for theological education in the faith and are altogether absent from the theology of the human person. As a result, this collection of institutions treats race as a specialty within pastoral theology, one that is significant to groups, but not a part of the fundamental theology of the human person. This ‘un-raced’ theological anthropology results in the institution’s inability to respond effectively …

The Ethical Requirements To Avoid Clinical Error Via Safety, Augustus Nweze, Augustus Ifeanyi Nweze Fr

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Establishing safety programs across healthcare organizations will help to eliminate clinical errors and promote patient safety goals such as culture of quality and safety. Following the 1999 IOM Report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, regarding the high rate of injuries and deaths due to medical errors, healthcare institutions and policymakers at all levels have continued to draw attention to patient safety programs. As a result, patient safety programs have been implemented nationally to avoid clinical error in healthcare. Regulatory agencies like The Joint Commission, which oversees the voluntary accreditation of hospitals in the U.S. continues to …

Transforming Chaplain Ethics: The Clinical Ethics Of Spiritual Care In A Pluralistic Healthcare Environment In The United States, Robert Alan Price

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation, “Transforming Chaplain Ethics: The Clinical Ethics of Spiritual Care in a Pluralistic Healthcare Environment in the United States,” aims to examine the clinical ethics of religious and spiritual care provided by clinical chaplains for patients and families receiving treatment in a pluralistic healthcare context in the United States.

Clinical chaplains are more than clergypersons and they are more than clinicians; they are a highly specialized marriage of both worlds. There is a fundamental asymmetry between functioning as a leader in a local religious community or faith tradition and providing clinical spiritual care in a pluralistic healthcare environment. This …

Volume 36 — Developing Synodality: From Churches To The World, The Ecumencial Association Of Nigerian Theologians

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology

Volume 36 of The Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology is available for purchase by contacting Dr. Peter Osuji at Duquesne University. After two years, issues are made freely available through the Duquesne Scholarship Collection.

• Editorial
• The Synthesis Report of the 2023 Synod on Synodality, James Chukwuma Okoye
• Theopolitics of Africae Munus and Theological Anthropology of Fratelli Tutti: Implications for Nigeria, Joseph Ogbonnaya
• Myth, Meaning, and Marginalization: Exploring the Smart India Mission, Socio-Economic Challenges, and the Purusha Suktam, Sebastian Madathummuriyil
• Lift Every Voice—The Influence of the African American Church: An Illustration of the Power of a Culturally Incarnated Witness, Charles Gilmer
• Religious …

What Made The Spiritans Different?: Historical Reflections From Des Places To Libermann, Jotham Parsons Ph.D

Spiritan Horizons

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Phronesis And Philosophical Hermeneutics In Rhetoric And Philosophy Of Communication Praxis: A Pastoral Implication, Nichodemus Okafor

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The overarching telos of this dissertation is walking the humanities into the marketplace. Its specific purpose is seeking how to enact the praxis of rhetoric and philosophy of communication. In keeping with Calvin Schrag’s “communicative praxis” and Ronald Arnett’s “responsive, learning rhetoric,” this research considers phronesis and philosophical hermeneutics as pragmatic tools of rhetoric and philosophy of communication praxis. It seeks the implication of rhetoric and philosophy of communication praxis in the pastoral field visualized as a marketplace, since the marketplace is not merely a place of capitalism, but a real world where people engage their concrete human condition/existence in …

The Integration Of Catholic Mission And Ethics In Contributing To A Good Death, Noah Dimas

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Catholic healthcare ethics exists within a morality that is under regular heavy scrutiny. This is furthered by the healthcare space itself becoming more secular as the greater society itself moves beyond the religious origins of healthcare. However, this does not have to be relegated to a negative. Rather, this can become a strong call to action for Catholic healthcare to rally together and advocate for itself in the wider healthcare space. This is especially true as these challenges to the Catholic moral-ethical framework begin to question the presence of both Catholic and religious healthcare as whole. These challenges, if left …

Jean-Remi Bessieux (1803-1876) And The Founding Of The Catholic Church In Gabon, François Nicolas Cssp

Spiritan Horizons

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From Ginkgo Biloba To The Almond Tree In Blossom: Spiritan Spirituality In Portugal, Tony Neves Cssp

Spiritan Horizons

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For A Synodal Church: To Live Communion, Achieve Participation, To Open Herself To Mission, James Chukwuma Okoye Cssp

Spiritan Horizons

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Chapter 6. The Cry Of The Vulnerable: Twenty-Five Years In Permanent State Of Transition, Paul Flamm C.S.Sp.

Spiritan Horizons

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A New Directive: An Ethical Analysis Of The Ethical And Religious Directives And Catholic Healthcare Mission To Promote And Sustain Catholic Healthcare, Noah Dimas

Graduate Student Research Symposium

At the heart of all Catholic healthcare is the mission and duty to further the healing ministry of Jesus Christ and care for one’s neighbor to uphold human dignity. However, some in Catholic healthcare may not fully know nor understand these foundational Catholic teachings. As such, these healthcare professionals can turn to a simple but rich guide in giving direction to these healthcare professionals, the USCCB’s Ethical and Religious Directives. This document acts as both a primer and set of guidelines regarding Catholic doctrine, the Catholic moral tradition, and how both inform the Catholic response to common ethical concerns. However, …

Chapter 17. Your Old Men Shall Dream Dreams, Vincent G. Stegman C.S.Sp.

Spiritan Horizons

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Building A New Model Of Church-State Collaboration On Environmental Care In Ghana Based On Catholic Social Teaching And African Theological Traditions, Emmanuel Abbey-Quaye

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Abstract

The care of the environment has always been considered by the Ghana Catholic Church as an important aspect of her pastoral care and evangelizing mission in Ghana. Hence, in their various teachings in communiqués and other pastoral documents from 1965 till now, the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference has consistently addressed the major environmental challenges confronting Ghana such as deforestation, mining, pollution, etc., applying the principles of stewardship and care of creation, intergenerational solidarity, integral ecology, etc., to ground these teachings.

Besides, in acknowledging that neither the Catholic Church nor the Ghanaian Government alone can resolve the various ecological crises …

Apprentis D’Auteuil: A Place Of Spiritan Mission, Marc Whelan C.S.Sp.

Spiritan Horizons

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Improving Progressive Care Nurses’ Confidence And Performance During In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (Ihca): A Continuous Quality Improvement Initiative, Katelyn Barley

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Manuscripts

The literature is clear regarding the benefits of high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in relation to patient outcomes. The American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines recommend immediate initiation of chest compressions and defibrillation as soon as possible to increase the chance of survival from cardiac arrest. The development of automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) have increased the survival rates of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, however rates of survival from in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) have not improved over the past several decades despite an increase in resuscitation research.

This project was to develop a system of quality improvement related to patient outcomes from IHCA. The …

Consecrate The World To God: Maximus The Confessor On The “Secular” And Vatican Ii’S Theology Of The Laity., Anthony Marco

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Post-Conciliar ecclesiological reflection has been largely critical of Lumen Gentium’s description of the laity. The criticism is focused around two concepts: that the lay vocation takes place principally among the life and work of the world, having a “secular character” and that the activity of the laity, as a participation in the priesthood of Christ, is the consecration the world itself to God. According to this critique, these concepts are problematic because they juxtapose the task of the laity in the world with the task of the clergy who are the sole proprietors of the sacred. This is compounded by …

Examining The Intersectionality Of Religious Faith, Spirituality, And Healthcare Communication, Felix Okeke

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation is my own contribution in responding to the concern raised by certain communication scholars. Their concern was that little research and few publications have been done in the communication field by communication scholars that trace the relationship among religious faith, spirituality, and healthcare communication. While Parrott (2004) describes this apparent neglect as “collective amnesia,” others label it “religion blindness.” Thus, in trying to trace this relationship, this project uses Christian, biblical, and bioethics backgrounds to establish the value, sacredness, and dignity of human life, since these concepts make healthcare and healthcare communication necessary in the first place. These …

Benedict Xvi, Robert Cardinal Sarah, From The Depths Of Our Hearts. Priesthood, Celibacy, And The Crisis Of The Catholic Church, James Chukwuma Okoye C.S.Sp.

Spiritan Horizons

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Mission As A Dialogic Unity Of Contraries, Ronald C. Arnett

Spiritan Horizons

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General Chapter 2020: Instrumentum Laboris (English), The Spiritan Congregation

General Chapters

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Report Of Superior General And His Council (English), The Spiritan Congregation

Superior General Reports

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Money, Providence, And Spiritan Mission, Jean-Marc Sierro

Spiritan Horizons

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The Challenges And Future Of Spiritan Mission, Jean Maturin Mougheney

Spiritan Horizons

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The First Fathers Of The “Mother Church” Of The South Hills, James K. Hanna

Gathered Fragments

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Amoris Laetitia - Joy Of Love Or Scandal Of Heresy?, George S. Worgul Jr., Ph.D, S.T.D.

Spiritan Horizons

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