@ARTICLE{Maciaszek_Ks._Paweł_Social_2024, author={Maciaszek, Ks. Paweł}, number={Tom 19}, pages={95-116}, journal={Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN}, howpublished={online}, year={2024}, publisher={Polskia Akademia Nauk - Komitet Nauk Teologicznych}, abstract={The text presents society's expectations towards the Catholic Church. The most frequently postulated are: the need to change moral standards, avoid politics, stop seeking money, clarify church cases of pedophilia, and clergy take into account the opinions of lay faithful. The successively presented demands form the structure of the article, the content of which is not limited only to providing statistical data and a description of social opinions, but also includes the Church's response and justification regarding the possi-bility of meeting these expectations. The conclusion formulated is the truth that the Church can only fulfill those demands that help man in his pursuit of salvation. He cannot fulfill some of them because he upholds the values indicated in the Gospel, to which he was called by Christ. The text uses the method of describing and analyzing contemporary reality with an interpretation of the current situation from the perspective of the Church's service constituting the implementation of God's plans.}, title={Social expectations towards the catholic Church and the possibilities of fulfilling them}, type={Artykuł}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/133518/PDF/2024-SNT-06.pdf}, doi={10.24425/snt.2024.150498}, keywords={pedophilia, morality, money, politics, Catholic Church, social demands, lay faithful}, }