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The Church, Its Psycho-Social Aspects in Today Society

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Foreword

  1. Summary

  2. Introduction:The Church as a Family

  3. THE MANY FUNCTIONS OF THE CHURCH

  4. Conclusion:  Present Day's Importance of the Church and its Relationship with the Technical Progress
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Recuperative Role


The Church, as a social body, has an important role of social recuperation of those people who fell outside the margins of the social norms and who live away of the idealistic values taught by the Church. At the catholic church of Saint Gregory, located at the 90th street in Manhattan, I have attended, in 1992-93, some therapeutic meetings supervised by the Alcoholic Anonyms Association of New York. The prelate had benevolently and freely lent to the organization a huge undergroung hall to hold those meetings.
   In the projection hall of Paramount Cine, in Port-au-Prince, I have attended some moralistic films chosen by a joint committee of the local catholic bishops and the educative Christian brothers of Jean Mie de La Menais. Films, like Ghandi, were much commented. The ultimate goal was to drive away the Haitian youth from the far numerous violent and immoral films of modern days' society.
   During the anual period of the carnival entertainments and orgies in Port-au-Prince, the Christian reformist churches organize praying and meditation camps far away from the uproar of the town. Sobriety is the rule in those camps and contrast with the eccentricities of the carnival parad.
    Some congregations of the Church of the Jehovah witnesses gather,, in New York at the end of the week, when most young people walk away from home for their mondane relaxation. To a life of debaucheries and rapines, the Church offers an opposite option. She grants to every human being the possibility of having "sane" social relationship in this huge family she is representing.

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