This article attempts to analyse the media discourse on the notion of gender in the most renowned Polish opinion journal Newsweek Polska weekly in the context of the letter that the Polish Episcopate of the Catholic Church issued for the Sunday of the Holy Family in 2013, which concerned gender and its ideology. The author this article presents a brief analysis of viewpoints discussed in Newsweek Polska: of the Polish Episcopate and of the journalists of Newsweek Polska. In the latter part of the article, the author analyses selected rhetorical means employed by the journalists. The last part is devoted to pastoral and educational guidance for religious and medial educators. The analysis ventured in this article gives grounds to the conclusion that the journalists of Newsweek Polska noticeably adhered to one side of the debate on gender – to the supporters of the ideology.
The more and more dominating medial culture constitutes one of the direct contexts for the Church preaching. It generates a new listener to homilies and sermons– homo medialis. Among the many attributes of the mediatized addressee of the Word of God is his/her openness to interpersonal communication and readiness to not only acquire but also to create content. A contemporary listener to sermons expects visual communication and he/she assimilates the content also through its affective layer. Contemporary preachers face the challenge of finding new ways to communicate faith to this newly defined, contemporary human being. One of such ways is a type of Bibliodrama, proposed by Peter Pitzele, which is referred to in the literature of the subject as Bibliolog. This method can be an efficient form of preaching. In this paper, the author presents the theoretical outlines of the method and gives suggestions for it practical application in preaching.
P. Drzewiecki’s dissertation under analysis takes up the problem of media education in its relation to religious education at school. P. Drzewiecki discusses this problem in three parts of his text. The first part deals with the problem area of contemporary media education. It settles some terminological disputes, determines the objectives and tasks of the methodology of media education, exhibits the status quo of media educational programmes in selected member states of the European Union, presents the Church’s teaching on the media, reveals educational problems generated by the media, discusses the role of media education in the curricular philosophy of the Polish educational system, and – last but not least – it approaches the problem of employing media education in religious education at school. The second part of the volume offers an in-depth study of the tasks and objectives of the teacher of religion – also in his/her role of media educator. The third part of the study is an attempt to define directions for development of media education in the context of its employment in religious education at school. The dissertation subject to this review is targeted at the reader who shows a keen interest in media education as part of contemporary Polish educational system. It can also be of much use to students of academic courses that are in some way related to media education and to the task of communication of faith in contemporary reality (e.g. journalist studies, media education, education studies, theology).
This article presents school retreats as a major element of evangelization conducted by the Church. The retreats addressed at children and teenagers at school must be seen in a wider perspective of the extraordinary pastoral activity of the Church, often realized in various forms of retreats. The authors of the article discuss the genesis and the growth of the tradition of school retreats in Polish catechetical teaching. These twenty years of tradition brought enormous experience in realizing the Lent retreats for children and teenagers. Analysing the literature of the field, the authors were able to distinguish between a number of types and models of retreats, which constantly evolve.
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