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The image of the pontificate of John Paul II. in Federal Republic of Germany
Šumníková, Kateřina ; Kunštát, Miroslav (advisor) ; Kochnowski, Roman (referee)
Kateřina Šumníková Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of International Relations, department of German and Austrian studies, field of German and Central European studies Diploma thesis: The image of the pontificate of John Paul II. in Federal Republic of Germany ABSTRACT Pope John Paul II. had indisputable importance not only for the church in Central and Eastern Europe, but also for social change in Eastern Europe. In the Federal Republic of Germany, John Paul II has become a personality who aroused not only polite interest, but also an increasing controversy over the time. The diploma thesis conducts a survey of the exact causes of the distance to his personality as well as the factors of not adoring perception in the Federal Republic of Germany. Part of the work deals with the quantitative media analysis, which provides a media image of John Paul II. in selected periodicals in connection to the announcement of Pope's canonization (July 5, 2014) and subsequent canonization (April 27, 2014).
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Second Vatican Council and his followers
Poslední, Petra ; Veverková, Kamila (advisor) ; Lášek, Jan Blahoslav (referee)
In my thesis I came to several conclusions. Holy Fathers John XXIII., Paul IV. and Francis, who followed and related the legacy of II. of the Vatican Council to, are much more popular in society than the popes, who have a different opinion and do not support the last ecumenical council. The openness of the personality and the pope's approach to the church modernization is for public absolutely necessary. Another crucial aspect for today's church is for sure the media world.
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Apostolic See in the service of church unity
Větrovský, Kryštof ; Szabo, Miloš (advisor) ; Valeš, Václav (referee)
This bachelor thesis, " An Apostolic See in a Service of the Unity of the Church", looks into a significance of the Apostolic See, which represents the highest legislative, executive and judicial power within the Church. It analyses a historical development of a performance of the papal primacy and it analyses the importance and the purpose of a spiritual power of the Church. It proposes the question, which aspects of work of the Apostolic See are significant and constant and in what lays the reasoning of the power of the Apostolic See over the whole Church. For this reason the thesis analyses the structure of the individual authorities, which implement this power and their competence. The key attention is given to the analysis of the Apostolic Constitution 'Pastor Bonus' and based on it, it inclines to the conclusion, that there exist reasons for a reformation of the Roman Curia. They are especially based on a more accurate definition of competence and aims regarding parallel solution of more dikasterias. That way it states effectiveness of publishing a new constitution of the Apostolic See, which would contain all changes in competences, which have appeared since 1988. Summarising all existing clauses in one document would make easier orientation in a structure of the Roman Curie and it would...
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The media image of pope Francis in the czech daily press
Malá, Tereza ; Provecho López, Juan Ignacio (advisor) ; Zezulková, Markéta (referee)
Pope Francis, who was elected 13th March, 2013 after the unexpected resignation of Pope Benedict XVI., became in a short time one of the world's most popular leaders ever because of his behavior and demeanor. Also world mass media played a big part in it as Pope Francis became a very important media personality. Also he contributed heavily to this fact by using the media intensively himself. He continues in the footsteps of his predecessors, he extensively uses all the media possibilities he can reach and since becoming the Pope he collaborates with a team of media experts who successfully help with his communication strategy. This master thesis titled "Media image of Pope Francis in Czech Daily Press" and it attempts to capture the person of Pope Francis and the reasons for his success and general popularity and to outline how much medialized he actually is in our country, which ranks amongst the secularized states. The pivotal part of the text therefore constitutes of the quantitative content analysis, which focuses on the media coverage of the Pope in the four most widely read Czech Daily Press (MF Dnes, Lidové noviny, Hospodářské noviny and Právo) and thus try to interpret his media image, of how Czech society might perceive him.
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