Abstract:

Effects of the globalization, which can be observed especially in the recent time; the growth of the economic migration and these one caused by armed conflicts, the growing disproportion in the affluence of societies, internationalization of effects of religious-based conflicts or speeding up and the rise of the volume of information exchange cause the Roman Catholic Church faces new challenges. Therefore describing the process of globalization from the Catholic Church point of view is a purpose of this article, which can not only help solving globalization problems as well as is a creator of attitudes of the essential part of the mankind. Deliberations in the article were based on the Roman Catholic Church social science and official statements of the highest hierarches.