The Significance of Charity (Caritas) in the Governing, Sanctifying, and Teaching Mission of the Church

Abstract

It would be far from the ,constitutional‘ principle of the Church, like in a case of the welfare state, to separate markedly the organizations of the universal or particular Church that are specifically in the service of merciful charity. On the con[1]trary, all levels and all offices of the Church are permeated with the commitment to merciful love. We are substantiating our claims with qualitative research, analyses of primary and secondary theological and Canon Law sources, which we sharpen for the governmental, sanctifying, and teaching mission of the Church. Our goal is to demonstrate that the consistent commitment of the Church, especially utteran[1]ces of the current Pope, the reform of the Curia, the positioning of the diplomatic body and the involvement of the Catholic Church in crisis management to support regional and global humanitarian mission and security, harmonize with the theo[1]logical teaching of the Church and with the Canon Law referring to it.

Kakor v primeru socialne države, bi bilo od ,konstitutivnih‘ načel Cerkve oddaljeno tudi ostro zamejevanje tistih njenih organizacij (na vesoljni ali kra jevni ravni), ki so specifično namenjene usmiljeni ljubezni. Še več, vse ravni in vse službe Cerkve prežema zavezanost k usmiljeni ljubezni. Naše trditve ute meljujemo na kvalitativnih raziskavah, analizah primarnih in sekundarnih teo loških in kanonskopravnih virov, skozi katere poudarjamo voditeljsko, posveče valno in učiteljsko poslanstvo Cerkve. Naš cilj je pokazati, da je dosledna zave zanost Cerkve – zlasti prizadevanja sedanjega papeža, reforma kurije, umešče nost diplomatskega zbora in vključenost Cerkve v krizni management za krepi tev regionalnega in svetovnega humanitarnega poslanstva ter varnosti – skladna z njenim lastnim teološkim naukom in kanonskim pravom, ki se nanj navezuje.