Maintain a view of the participatory pastoral theology as a constructive theology that emerges from the exercise of caring relationships with attention both to the present lived experience and to the knowledge derived from the past.
Further the understanding of the participatory pastoral theology as a theological discipline and to clarify the nature of the discipline.
Provide sound socio-theological principles for guidance and critique of pastoral and spiritual care.
Work critically through the synthesis and analysis to define the frontiers and parameters of the discipline in the process of contextualizing existing theological thinking and pastoral practices.
Provide resources for those who teach and study by making available the current research findings and giving access to the relevant literature.
Foster multi-cultural understanding of issues in the discipline. Especially when large scale continental displacement of the faithful is taking place in modern times.
Employ scientific approach and inductive methods in understanding the socio-pastoral issues, making use of the research methodology available in the social sciences.
Develop techniques and skills proper to the participatory pastoral care, thus providing an internal forum for the voices of diverse persons, women and men belonging to different socio-economic-cultural groups, the marginalized, the youth and the educated elite.
Initiate participatory pastoral theology as a theological discipline taught in the seminaries with significance along with other major subjects.
Serve the Data Centre, Research Centre and Training Centre of the PAROC Research Institute by publishing its most significant discoveries—findings in the Socio-pastoral field.
The journal publishes not only primary research articles but also reviews, critical comments and analyses.
The Journal has to reflect the directions in which PAROC moves: Animating Pastoral Communities and Pastors, Outreaching and Research.