Evangelism against violence: theoretical foundations of the catholic models of youth educatona in Italy

Abstract

The article deals with youth aggression and the measures taken by the Catholic Church in Italy to prevent this phenomenon. The Catholic Church sees the cause of violence in breaking of traditional ties, individualism, moral relativism, fragmentation in postmodern society, in the desire of European States to monopolize and ideologize the education of young people, removing the family from this process and giving it an exclusively secular character. The "gold standard" of Catholic education in Italy is the Salesian pedagogical program. The Catholic Church makes a choice in favour of a preventive educational method, stimulates mentors to abandon the extremes: agnosticism, subjectivism, paternalism, authoritarianism in pedagogy — to prevent unwanted actions or aggression of teenagers. An important place in the theoretical developments of the Church is given to the education of adolescents critical attitude to the media, support for the family, evangelization, protection of traditional values, formation of a humanitariarism

Keywords

• catholic church
• italy
• evangelization
• youth education
• youth aggression
• don bosco
• salesian congregation
• pastoral project «educational challenge»