Detail Pastoral Actions to Defend and Promote the Right to Health   Oleh:  Steffan, Mariano Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: Dolentium Hominum vol. 21 no. 63 (2006), page 37-39. Topik: Pastoral Actions Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: DD25.9 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel The Second Vatican Council called the attention of the whole of mankind to the supreme norm of ‘divine law — the eternal, objective and universal — whereby God orders. directs and governs the entire universe and all the ways of the human community’.’ On the basis of this fundamental fact, the Church perceives the obligation to proclaim the right to health, drawing upon the Gospel of Christ, and to be able to say words, where she is competent, not only on prevention in relation to the overall health of the human person but also on the multiple forms, concealed to various degrees. concerning diagnosis, therapy and rehabilitation, that do not foster that health and which, in attacking man’s psycho-physical and spiritual equilibrium, injure him. If, therefore, the search for truth must conform to ‘the dignity of the human person and his social nature’ , it follows from this that also in the sphere of every health-care action one cannot depart from the mission of the Church, whose specific task requires making the redemption of Christ real today and fostering its full achievement so as to direct mankind towards salvation in Christ. In this search, the Church, through her help, her teaching and dialogue, renders a valuable and irreplaceable service to man, whether healthy or sick, in addition to her specific and ineluctable obligation to engage in the ministry of salvation. Because of the fact that the concept of health refers in practical terms to everything that concerns the concrete spheres of health care — such as structures, planning, legislation, policies and investments — the Church cannot draw back; indeed, she calls for and requires her presence in public places of care and treatment to be assured by states. The Church does the same in relation when it comes to being able to allow mankind to hear her words which infuse hope. In intensifying her pastoral action, the Church perceives that her doctrinal principles cannot be only proclaimed: they must be constantly upheld, corrected and tested in practice so as to foster, at every level of reflection and practice, the communion of the Church with the suffering, and thus manage, as a consequence, to bear upon the mentality and customs of modern man. As Pope John Paul II warned, this is because ‘unfortunately the beneficial action of the protection and the defence of health encounters obstacles not only in a host of ancient and recent pathogenic factors which imperil live on earth but also sometimes in the mentality and behaviour of men’. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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