A Person with a Disability in the Church: The Concept of the Active Church – the Objective Dimension

Katarzyna Zielińska-Król

doi:10.15290/rtk.2024.23.12

Published: 2024-12-281

Vol. 23 (2024)

A Person with a Disability in the Church: The Concept of the Active Church – the Objective Dimension

Katarzyna Zielińska-Król

Rocznik Teologii Katolickiej

Section: THEOLOGY OF THE FAMILY

https://doi.org/10.15290/rtk.2024.23.12

Abstract

For a person with a disability the activity in the Church depends not only on the personal convictions but also on the external factors which are indepen- dent from him or her but which condition the possibility of being active in the Church to a greater extent. The article focuses on the analysis of the interviews conducted with people with physical disabilities, with the deaf, with the blind, with those with full or partial mental disability as well as with the caregivers of people with disabilities.

The aim of the article is to find answers to the following questions: which spheres of the pastoral practice determine the inclusive Church? To what ex- tent can people with disabilities be active in the Church and to what extent do they want it? The article discusses the original Concept of the Active Church (KAK) in the objective dimension. The concept constitutes the answer to the above-mentioned questions.

KAK in the subjective dimension includes the spheres in which people with disabilities can and want to be active in the Church.

Keywords:

a person with a disability, the Church, the Active Cchurch, inclusion, affiliation

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Katarzyna Zielińska-Król

kzielinska1@wp.pl
https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7885-2042

Affiliation:

The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Poland

Bio Statement (e.g., department and rank)

ZIELIŃSKA-KRÓL KATARZYNA, Researcher and academic teacher. Research interests include: alternative methods of rehabilitation, inclusion of people with disabilities, the role of faith and religion in the process of rehabilitation of people with disabilities, changes in the area of forms and concepts of family. Author of many publications and contractor of research projects in the field of disability and family. Current research activities focus on the concept of an active society and the concept of belonging.