The church can be defined differently. Give it meaning, lighting from many sides. There are eyes coming from the inside, but we besides know the outside.
So 1 can look at the Church from the position of a man of religion or from the point of view of secular teachings, e.g. sociology, psychology, or even legal – political doctrines. And whatever we think is inactive a powerful planet institution, unique and unique. It is besides an highly ominous structure, due to the fact that to this day all observer will announcement its relic form.
Despite continuing attempts to make him a judaizing sect. Let us leave this last subject for another occasion, let us deal with what the Church has actually been brought about and what it has actually ceased to be, due to the fact that these issues stay in a close relationship. The Church long ago lost large areas of participation in secular power. Priests are no longer representatives of elected bodies, they do not hold offices, they are not even advisors. At most, they can belong to philatelic unions or hobby organizations. But they are besides looked at as though they were not in the right place, treating these cases as yet incidental.
In any countries, they sometimes assist in secular rites. However, this function is increasingly shrinking, the sutanna in Catholic countries has been almost driven out of public space. And the priests themselves willingly dropped it, considering it a dense burden in the secular planet of unpleasant looks. The Church, for many centuries, was besides a powerful teacher. Today, yes, it besides has institutes appointed for education, but they have in fact ceased to play the roles of elite builders or mass educators. It's just not there. There's inactive charity left. In it the hierarchy places certain hopes on the Renaissance, you can see that it cares about this aspect of centuries-old activity. In relations between clergymen and laymen, there is inactive a certain courtesy, sometimes kindness and good attitude, but this side of life is subject to intense tests of its revision. This goal is achieved by publicising various aspects of the conduct that are morally condemned. The priest is to be branded in advance and socially isolated on good cause. In specified general circumstances, the Church and its enemies have come to the agreement that this institution of spiritual life, sustaining and promoting, has, according to liberal doctrines, exclusively spiritual service activities.
However, washed from their supernatural aspects. These others let this due to the fact that religion itself is highly deep in human nature, and since so: even spiritual morality is not so easy to ruthlessly reject. So there's an agreement. Especially since this transition does not lead to a return of faith. This was practiced in various Protestant rituals. The final consequence is always 1 thing: a case. The Catholic Church so provides sacramental services. The Holy Mass is, indeed, widely available, but more abbreviated and simplified, so as not to exhaust the faithful with excessive responsibilities. Confession is becoming more and more like a intellectual conversation about ambiguous aspects of everyday life. Holy Communion is best served, after all, hygiene is important. So there is simply a service order and payment. Everything, as far as possible in secular ornamentation.
Antoni Koniuszewski
Think Poland, No. 5-6 (29.01-5.02.2023)
