“Studia Pastoralne” journal has been published regularly since 2005. A suitable circumstance to publish “Studia Pastoralne” for the first time was the 40th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), celebrated in 2005. Its rich theological and pastoral inspirations keep provoking a creative research attitude meant to discover the essence of conciliar teaching and develop, in light of the Council, theology in the context of the contemporary “signs of the times”. In particular, it is about branches of theology that, apart from their strictly scientific qualities, are characterised by a practical dimension. The fields of theology at stake are: pastoral theology, liturgics, homiletics, catechetics, missiology, and Christian spirituality. Theological and pastoral domains defined by these disciplines are the subject of “Studia Pastoralne”. The journal is an open forum that guarantees free and deepened exchange of theological thought and pastoral experience, which we can share with one another and support the Church in the realisation of her mission in a specific historical time and real socio-cultural circumstances. The journal is meant primarily for Polish readers, although it highlights experience of foreign authors, too.

It is composed of the following sections: Articles, Materials, Reviews and Overviews, Reports. The journal can be found in the following data bases: The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (CEJSH) – summaries; The Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) – full versions of texts. The journal is indexed on a list of scientific journals: ICI Journals Master List. In can be found in POL-index Polish citation base. The original version of the journal is the paper version. It is available in several dozen libraries in Poland.