Moral norms and the forgotten virtue of Epikeia in the pastoral care of the divorced and remarried

Abstract

The virtue of epikeia is relevant for many issues that arise in contemporary society, including pastoral concerns in our parish communities, among which, a particularly diffcult one is the pastoral care of the divorced and remarried. is article will include two parts. First, I will focus on how the understanding of epikeia developed historically in order to present its various nuances systematically. I will clarify the different nuances of the understanding of this virtue in three key authors representative of the tradition. Second, I will raise a number of questions for the further examination of the issue of the pastoral care of the divorced and remarried.