Pastoral care that misidentifies the real issues at hand cannot offer effective healing, Waters believes. As she puts it, “definition drives care.” Having often met pastoral caregivers who excuse ...

This shift away from doctrinal definition leaves a lot of room for ... it is often acceptable for pastoral care to be undertaken by those not recognised denominationally in a position of authority.

Some of them are coming from drugs, sadly. It's a real tough time for some of them. Pastoral care, it could go to a range of things, there's such a broad definition around it." ...

As any pastor knows, anxiety permeates church life and the work of pastoral care. Sometimes it seems as if the entire job of pastoring can be boiled down to a matter of managing anxiety: that of the ...

The prefect of the Vatican’s doctrinal office stressed on Tuesday that in marriage annulment or dissolution cases, the Church’s procedural law and the pastoral care of persons are not in conflict.