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- ItemAssessing Kenyan Catholics’ Understanding of Human Sexuality on the Basis of Individuals Associated with Shalom Center in Mitunguu: A Theological-Pastoral Perspective(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2022) Goleń, Jacek; Kobak, JanThe aim of the article is to discuss the understanding of human sexuality evinced by a group of Kenyan Catholics from the methodological perspective of pastoral theology, pointing out certain conclusions and pastoral suggestions. The article comprises the following parts: theological-normative, sociological, and theological-postulating. The first synthetically presents human sexuality from the point of view of the teaching of the Catholic Church, the second discusses methodology and results of the conducted empirical research, while the third presents conclusions and suggestions for pastoral care of families. The research results show that the majority of respondents shared Catholic convictions on sexuality. However, less than half of the respondents believed that love of a man and a woman serves to transmit life to children and that true love of a man and woman requires an indissoluble marriage. A quite high percentage of respondents did not agree that sexual intercourse aims to forge a psychological and spiritual bond between the partners. Women more rarely than men shared Catholic convictions on human sexuality and more rarely than men believed that a human being should not be used as if he/ she was an object. This may show women’s lack of access to education as well as a strong impact of local traditional cultural models on their understanding of the role of women. These results point to some missionary-pastoral challenges, especially as regards education of youth, spouses, and spouses-to-be, as well as that of clergy, catechists, and lay employees of family ministry.
- ItemCare for Incomplete Families(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2018) Goleń, Jacek
- ItemDuszpasterstwo rodzin niepełnych(Wydawnictwo Bonus Liber, 2013) Goleń, Jacek
- ItemDuszpasterstwo rodzin wsparciem rodziców w wychowaniu(2019-06) Goleń, JacekWychowanie człowieka i duszpasterstwo rodzin mają wspólne korzenie w Bożej pedagogii miłości. Wspólnie pomagają one człowiekowi wejść na drogę dobra wpisanego w jego serce przez Stwórcę. Wychowanie w rodzinie jest uprzywilejowanym miejscem realizacji Bożego zamysłu miłości – głoszenia ewangelii życia i miłości. W dziele tym małżonkowie chrześcijańscy działają w oparciu o mandat Kościoła, ale potrzebują też eklezjalnego wsparcia w całym procesie i w różnych wymiarach wychowania. Szczególnymi obszarami wsparcia rodziców ze strony kościelnego duszpasterstwa jest pomoc w wychowaniu seksualnym, religijnym i moralnym oraz wychowaniu do miłości, małżeństwa i życia w rodzinie. Duszpasterstwo rodzin pomaga także dorastającej młodzieży i młodym dorosłym w samowychowaniu oraz formacji uzupełniającej i korygującej oddziaływania rodziny pochodzenia oraz współczesnych wpływów kulturowych.
- ItemFormacja alumnów do duszpasterstwa rodzin(Wydawnictwo Bonus Liber, 2013) Goleń, Jacek
- ItemFormation in Family Ministry for Seminarians(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2018) Goleń, Jacek
- ItemForming Communities of Families(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2018) Goleń, Jacek
- ItemHow Religiosity Correlates with Catholic Beliefs Regarding Human Sexuality: A Theological-Pastoral Study of Individuals Associated with the Shalom Center in Mitunguu, Kenya(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-05-03) Goleń, Jacek; Kobak, Jan; Kabala, FlorenceThe article presents the correlation between religiosity and understanding of human sexuality among a selected group of young Kenyan Catholics. Our research aimed to pinpoint the contingencies between these variables with a view to reaching some conclusions and offering suggestions for religious education and pastoral care of youth and families. The present research into religiosity made use of Huber’s Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS). The respondents’ understanding of human sexuality was studied with the use of a survey prepared by the authors. Our research shows that an understanding of human sexuality from a Catholic point of view increases alongside an increase in one’s interest in religion, in religious convictions, and the centrality of religion in one’s life. The analyzed correlations occurred more frequently and were stronger among men than women. There were most connections among the youngest group of respondents, younger than 20 and currently receiving education.
- ItemKenyan Catholics’ Religiosity and Understanding of Marriage on the Basis of Individuals Associated with Shalom Center in Mitunguu: Educational and Pastoral Perspective(MDPI, 2023) Goleń, Jacek; Kobak, Jan; Kabala, Florence; Szyszka, MałgorzataThis article presents the results of research into religiosity and understanding of marriage among a selected group of young Catholics, all of whom are current students or graduates of Shalom Center in Mitunguu, Kenya. The goal of our study was to determine the correlations between the two variables so as to reach some conclusions and suggestions for religious education and pastoral care. The research made use of Stefan Huber’s Centrality of Religiosity Scale, while the respondents’ understanding of marriage was analyzed with the use of a questionnaire prepared by the authors of this study. As our research shows, one’s Catholic understanding of marriage increases alongside an increase in interest in religiosity and in one’s religious convictions, while it does not correlate—or does so only weakly—with a centrality of religiosity. Correlations with centrality occurred more often among men than among women. Mutual connections were most frequent among the youngest group of respondents, those who were up to 20 years of age and current students. This may indicate that religious formation and education of youth in the Shalom Center exerts a clear impact on shaping Catholic views on marriage. With the passing of time, traditional cultural precepts seem to gain prominence among the graduates.
- ItemKierownictwo duchowe małżonków(Wydawnictwo Bonus Liber, 2013) Goleń, Jacek
- ItemLudzka seksualność w posoborowym nauczaniu Kościoła(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2022) Goleń, JacekCelem niniejszego artykułu jest ukazanie ludzkiej seksualności w świetle posoborowego nauczania Kościoła katolickiego. Najpierw autor dokonuje wyjaśnienia najważniejszych terminów, a potem ukazuje drogę do pozytywnego i całościowego ujęcia ludzkiej seksualności w nauczaniu Kościoła. Następnie ukazuje osobowy sens ludzkiej płciowości oraz naturalną celowość w niej zawartą. W ramach metody dedukcyjnej wykorzystano metody szczegółowe: analizy tekstów źródłowych, interpretacji, porównawczą, syntezy, wnioskowania. Główną konkluzją z podjętych badań jest to, że przez szereg wieków Kościół katolicki bardzo powoli odczytywał prawdę o ludzkiej seksualności, podkreślając cel prokreacyjny. Najpełniej i w sposób pozytywny została ona ujęta dopiero w posoborowym nauczaniu Kościoła, a zwłaszcza papieży Jana Pawła II, Benedykta XVI oraz Franciszka.
- ItemMarital Satisfaction and a Sense of Life’s Meaning Among Couples Struggling with Infertility. A Theological-Pastoral Take(2020) Goleń, JacekThe problem of infertility today constitutes a challenge for pastoral theology and pastoral care of families. This article, of a theological-empirical character, addresses the correlation between marital satisfaction and a sense of life’s meaning among infertile married couples who seek help in Catholic clinics for infertility treatment. It first discusses the theoretical background and selected results of existing scholarship on the influence that infertility has on conjugal relations and a sense of life’s meaning. Then, it outlines the group of infertile married individuals studied and elucidates the research methodology employed. Then, the results of the research into a sense of life’s meaning and marital satisfaction are presented, together with the correlation between the two factors. The final section of the article offers conclusions drawn from the research conducted. The article argues that a sense of life’s meaning is visibly contingent on the respondents’ marital satisfaction, especially on their working together on their problems and leading trustful conversations about them, on their care for strengthening their mutual love, and on showing the spouse that they are loved. On this basis, the article argues that pastoral care offered to infertile couples needs to enhance their faith, which will have a positive impact on their sense of life’s meaning and on their marital satisfaction. Both within regular work at clinics for infertility diagnosis and treatment and within pastoral care, infertile couples should be taught to show care for their mutual bond, especially to have conversations that will enable them to manifest and strengthen their love and solve problems, as this would foster their marital satisfaction and enhance their sense of life’s meaning.
- ItemMiłość małżeńska w świetle badań narzeczonych(2014) Goleń, JacekLove is often the main reason for contracting a sacramental marriage. In the sacramental marriages the conjugal love is the vital part of the marriage vow. However, a question arises: what does the conjugal love mean for the spouses who contract the sacramental marriage and how do they want to implement it in their life. Seeking the answer to that question in 2012, the researchers made a survey among 772 fiancés (386 couples) in 13 dioceses in Poland. The researchers took into account the influence of the independent variables such as: sex, age, the level of education, the attitude towards faith, the number of siblings and the family of origin. The majority of the fiancés aims at implementing the conjugal love according to the marital vow. They want to love their spouse in a faithful and honest way, exclusively and permanently, they want to pursue love as a gift of themselves, they want to create the unity of two people, to forgive the spouse. Only two thirds of the respondents want their love to be open to procreation. A certain percentage of the fiancés consider some vital aspects of the conjugal love to be of average importance, of little importance or as not important at all. The aims of the conjugal love seen according to the marital vow are more valued by women, by the fiancés aged 18 to 25, by highly educated people, by the people who represent the more positive attitude towards faith and by the fiancés who come from full families. At the same time a large percentage of the fiancés highly values experiencing the feelings for the spouse, experiencing the pleasant feelings connected with the marital bond and creating the friendship bonds with the other spouse. The fiancés seldom value the erotic dimension of conjugal love. Some of the fiancés manifest utilitarian tendencies, and every fifth of the fiancés manifests the maniacal tendency which aims at controlling the other spouse. The obtained results allow for drawing conclusions for the pastoral care of the family, especially in the preparation of young people and fiancés for contracting the sacramental marriage.
- ItemMotywy zawarcia małżeństwa sakramentalnego. Studium z duszpasterstwa rodzin w świetle badań narzeczonych(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2013) Goleń, JacekThe Church in its teaching has to a greater extent been focused on the preparation of the fiancés to enter into the sacramental marriage. In recent years this kind of preparation for the marriage has been of particular importance, especially in the light of the growing impact of the secular attitudes and models of the marriage and family life which are opposed to the God’s plan on the marriage and family. The teaching of the Church raises the question of the fiancés’ motives to enter into the sacramental marriage as well as of the state of their preparation for the sacrament. The aim of this dissertation was to present the Church’s recommendations for entering into the sacramental marriage, to show the actual motives of the fiancés who enter into the sacramental marriage and to present the pastoral conclusions and requirements which regard the preparation of the fiancés. The leading method used in this dissertation is the paradigm analysis of the pastoral theology. The normative part of the dissertation presents the Church’s recommendations for entering into the sacramental marriage. Among these there are the anthropological motives, religious motives, moral obligations and legal requirements for those who want to enter into the sacramental marriage. The second part of the dissertation, which presents the implemented model of the motives for entering into the sacramental marriage, consists of one chapter devoted to the research methodology and three chapters presenting the empirical research process and results. The survey was conducted in May and June 2012 among 386 engaged couples (772 people) from 13 Polish dioceses. In the typology of motives two separate aspects such as: the motive for entering into the sacramental marriage and the choice of the future spouse, were taken into account. Both kinds of motives were divided into a few categories. The distinguished motives were the anthropological, psychological, religious, moral, social and domestic, cultural and legal ones. The survey results indicate that the engaged people highly value the moral and anthropological motives for entering into the sacramental marriage and choosing the spouse while the religious motives are of a slightly lower value. The less valued motives are the cultural and legal ones, and the lowest in value are the domestic and social motives. Generally speaking, those who took part in the survey recognise a slightly higher value of the motives for choosing the sacramental marriage than the motives for the choice of the spouse. For the engaged women, the religious and moral motives are of greater value. The appreciation of both kinds of motives clearly differentiates the attitudes of the survey participants towards faith and shows that a greater number of motives is valued by those deeply religious and practicing, fewer by those whose faith is weak and who practice less, and the fewest by those of weak faith or atheists. The appreciation of the greater number of motives declines among those engaged people who grow in age and education. Among the fiancés, high correlations were obtained for religious, domestic and social motives, the average correlations were obtained for the moral and psychological motives while the lowest were for the legal and cultural motives. The third part of the dissertation, which presents the postulated model, contains a number of the pastoral conclusions and requests for those who prepare the future spouses. This part indicates the importance of the support which should be given to the fiancés so that they could acquire the full maturity for marriage, emphasising the importance of the pastoral care for the religious formation of the fiancés and the possibility to strengthen their moral attitudes. Finally, it focuses on the need and the ways of appreciation of the social and cultural motives and the legal requirements for those who want to enter into the sacramental marriage. The results obtained in the research helped to formulate a number of demands for the pastoral care of the family, and to indicate the further research perspectives.
- ItemOdnowa przygotowania narzeczonych do małżeństwa po adhortacji Amoris laetitia(2019) Goleń, JacekPo ukazaniu się adhortacji apostolskiej Amoris laetitia rodzi się pytanie, jakiej odnowy wymaga przygotowanie narzeczonych do małżeństwa w Polsce. Analiza tekstu adhortacji pozwala wydobyć podstawy tejże odnowy, czyli dowartościowanie etapu wychowania w rodzinie oraz etapu pracy z parą narzeczonych, a także odpowiedni dobór treści formacyjnych, cele formacji, jej podmiot, oraz zadania tegoż procesu. Pośród kierunków odnowy przygotowania do małżeństwa papieski dokument wskazuje na ewangelizację oraz mistagogiczne przygotowanie narzeczonych oraz pomoc w poznawaniu się i uczeniu miłości do konkretnej osoby. Akcentuje także pomoc w pogłębieniu motywacji zawarcia małżeństwa oraz w rozpoznaniu niezgodności i sygnałów ostrzegawczych zagrożeń wzajemnej relacji. Adhortacja rzuca także jasne światło na kierunek pracy duszpasterskiej z parami żyjącymi „bez ślubu”. Z przedstawionych przesłanek w artykule zostały wyprowadzone wnioski, dotyczące form przygotowania narzeczonych.
- ItemParish Family Counseling Centers(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2018) Goleń, Jacek
- ItemPastoral Accompaniment for People in Irregular Situations(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2018) Goleń, Jacek
- ItemPastoral Care for Families Suffering from Infertility(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2018) Goleń, Jacek; Kobak, Jan
- ItemPierwszoplanowa dziedzina działalności pastoralnej w parafii(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2016) Goleń, Jacek
- ItemPoradnictwo małżeńsko-rodzinne(Wydawnictwo Bonus Liber, 2013) Goleń, Jacek