Youth ministry

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In the Roman Catholic Church, youth pastoral care refers to the work of young people in the church as well as the work of full-time and voluntary church workers with young people and for young people. Youth pastoral care is part of church pastoral care as a whole. The field of youth pastoral care is often referred to as youth pastoral care. However, since the term pastoral care gives the impression that on the part of the church only the soul is of interest, the more comprehensive term pastoral is preferred today to indicate that the well-being of the whole youth is or should be a concern of youth pastoral care .

Since 2000 there has been a first chair for youth pastoral care at the Philosophical-Theological University of Benediktbeuern .

Fields of work

The field of activity of youth pastoral care is divided into six areas:

  1. Church youth work and youth care
  2. Youth Social Work
    • Youth residences / student residences
    • Work-related measures
    • Professional preparation, accompaniment, continuation
    • Measures for young people in problematic situations
    • Girls social work
  3. Educational aids
  4. school
    • Presence of the Church in state schools
    • Church-sponsored schools
    • Day centers for schoolgirls
  5. Mass media
    • Church youth magazines
    • Associations and organization magazines
    • Youth-related radio and television
    • new media
  6. Special services

literature

  • Aims and tasks of church youth work (resolution of the joint synod of the German dioceses [1975]), in: Ludwig Bertsch u. a. (Ed.): Joint synod of the dioceses in the Federal Republic of Germany. Resolutions of the General Assembly , Official Complete Edition I, Freiburg i. Brsg. 1976, 288-311. (Decision of the Würzburg Synod, which made a diaconal orientation for church youth work in Germany binding.) Http://www.dbk.de/schriften/synode/Dateien/Synode_in_Teilen/08_Jugendarbeit.pdf
  • Günter Biemer : The service of the church to the youth. Foundation and practical orientation [Handbook of Church Youth Work 1], Freiburg i. Brsg. 1985. (Deepening of the diaconal orientation after the Synod through connection with a theological anthropology following Karl Rahner.)
  • Ottmar Fuchs : Prophetic Power of Youth? On the theological and ecclesiological site of an age group in the horizon of the gospel , Freiburg i. Brsg. 1986. (pointed pamphlet; Fuchs takes a position opposite to Biemer with his thesis of the “service of youth to the church”.)
  • Leo Gielkens: More than victory and defeat - mediation as an education to renounce violence in youth pastoral care . Lit Verlag 2007 (including dissertation, RWTH Aachen University), ISBN 978-3-8258-0337-7 .
  • Klaus Hemmerle :
    • To pursue Christ. Help young people find their way , Freiburg i. Brsg. 1980. (Presentation at the Roman Synod of Bishops 1979 with an understanding of youth pastoral care as a community of young people and adults in the church)
    • What do young people do with the Church? What does the Church do with the youth? , in: IKaZ 12 (1983), 306-317. (Fundamental theological justification of youth pastoral care.)
Also commented on by: Ulrich Deller, Ewald Vienken (Ed.): Wagnis Weggemeinschaft. Contributions and reflections on youth pastoral care (1997, ISBN 3879963614 )
  • Klaus Hemmerle, Munich 1997; Klaus Ritter: Learning to believe in the face of young people. Impulses for youth pastoral care according to Klaus Hemmerle , Ostfildern 2004.
  • Herbert Haslinger : Discover yourself - experience God. For a mystagogical practice of church youth work . Mainz 1991. (A mystagogical practice developed following Karl Rahner , which emphasizes the accompaniment to the discovery of one's own relationship with God.)
  • Martin Lechner : Pastoral Theology of Youth. Historical, theological and kairological determination of youth pastoral care in an evangelizing church . [Studies on youth pastoral care 1], Munich 1992. (historical outline of youth pastoral work in Germany. With his concept of an “evangelizing youth pastoral care ” (based on Evangelii Nuntiandi (1975) by Paul VI. ) Lechner tried to combine the approaches of Biemer and Fuchs .)
  • Patrik C. Höring :
    • Encounter young people. Youth pastoral action in a church as a community [Praktische Theologie Heute 41], Stuttgart 2000. (Draft of a youth pastoral work based on the self-understanding of the church as a community ( Koinonia ) and the rule of God as a principle of action ( Helmut Merklein ) and thus theological foundations for communicative action wants to put in youth pastoral care. Brief description also in Höring: youth pastoral care today ). New edition: meeting young people. Workbook for youth work [Practical Theology Today 152], Stuttgart 2017.
    • Youth pastoral today. Tasks and opportunities , Kevelaer / Düsseldorf 2004.
  • Hans Hobelsberger : youth pastoral care of commitment. A practical-theological reflection and conception of the social action of young people , Würzburg 2006. (Study on the voluntary engagement of young people today in the context of a diaconal youth pastoral work)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b [Both also published in the series 'Selected Writings' (Volume 4)]
  2. ↑ (therein: overview of developments in the 1990s, brief description of the approach from "Encountering Young People", individual presentations on fields of action in youth pastoral care)