CATHOLIC CHURCH AND CULTURE: NEW WAYS OF THE OLD DIALOGUE

Abstract

The article deals with the main stages of evolution of the Catholic Church's teaching on culture in the XX - early XXI centuries. The Author shows that the popes committed a long way from the anathema of any form of secular culture and civilization up to a dialogue between the Church and the culture, the Church and contemporary art. In practical term, this task is the object of activities of the Papal Council for culture. Since the beginning of the third Millennium, in the context of globalization, secularism and religious indifferentism, the Vatican appreciates more than ever the role of cultural factor in the "constructive dialogue" at the inter-state, inter-religious, interethnic, interpersonal levels of interaction between people

Keywords

• culture
• vatican
• the second vatican council
• catholic church
• interreligious dialogue
• christian civilization
• modernism