„Postęp” a Kościół w kontekście praw człowieka: doświadczenie Rady Europy

Jerzy Ciechański

doi:10.21697/CSP.2021.25.1.11

Published: 2021-08-27

No. 25 (2021)

“Progress” and the Church in the Context of Human Rights: A Council of Europe Experience

Jerzy Ciechański

Christianity-World-Politics

Section: Miscellanea

https://doi.org/10.21697/CSP.2021.25.1.11

Abstract

Human rights have become an instrument of “Progress”, understood as a license for satisfying every conceivable human desire, in the service of a “Utopia” understood as a state of affairs in which all human rights are perfectly realized. The Council of Europe and other similar international bodies have become convenient venues of their instantiation. What results is endless proliferation of human rights, insistence on their amalgamation so that any distinction from the categorical civil and political rights be eliminated and, ultimately, trivialization of human rights. Meanwhile, the Catholic Church has something important to say on all the critical points of current public debate of the matter. Yet, its representatives all too often take a passive stance in all those varied expert bodies in the Council of Europe and elsewhere, where “Progress” so conceived is being forged. The article pleads for a change.

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human rights, the Council of Europe, progress, the social doctrine of the Church

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Ciechański, J. (2021). “Progress” and the Church in the Context of Human Rights: A Council of Europe Experience. Christianity-World-Politics, (25). https://doi.org/10.21697/CSP.2021.25.1.11

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