This book explores caritas, the idea of neighboury love, as a key ethic that shaped how early modern people lived, loved, and thought about the self.
Jakub Doležel, representative of Charitable Service Studies in Olomouc (Czech Republic) tables a model of integral caritas practice which maintains the balance between both courses of socio-pastoral mission.
Families have commonly been used as proxy to assist in making health care decisions and goal planning for patients lacking decision-making capacity (Burkhardt & Nathaniel, 2008; Eicher & Johnson, 2005; Levack, Siegert, Dean, ...
Through stories of caring moments, transpersonal journeys, and ongoing evolution, Caritas Coaching provides nurses and other caregivers a deep, intimate look at how to integrate Caring Science into their practice.
Pope Benedict's third encyclical, Love in Truth ("Caritas in Veritate"), applies the themes of his first two encyclicals -love and hope (God is Love, Saved in Hope) - to the world's major social issues.
Should generosity and ethical behavior call for receptivity and reciprocity forward? Political scientist Romand Coles explores how, through understanding, we might practice and inspire generosity with responsibility.
Both at the grass roots and among the chattering classes, pro-life and peace-and-justice Catholics in America generally move in separate circles. They read their own journals and blogs, attend their own ...
Caritas had been tutored in Latin, became acquainted with Albrecht Dürer, and read the newly-discovered works of Hrotswitha von Gandersheim.
While this book was written specifically for Catholic health care, its implications for Catholic Identity in a pluralistic world extend beyond this ministry to Catholic education and social service organizations as well."--Publisher.
With his first encyclical, Pope Benedict XVI hopes to overturn that perception and describe the essential place of love in the life of the Church.
Caritas and the Psychospiritual Way