Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church by Tricia Colleen Bruce

2018 ◽  
Vol 129 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-62
Author(s):  
William A. Clark ◽  
Tia Noelle Pratt ◽  
John Francis Burke
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Place Making ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
American Catholic Church

“Overcoming the Divisiveness of Babel”: The Languages of Catholicity

Horizons ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-342
Author(s):  
Mary Jo Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Essential Characteristic ◽  
Patient Understanding ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
American Catholic Church ◽  
The Church

AbstractContemporary issues in the American Catholic Church can sound like a modern-day confusion of tongues making communication impossible. Furthermore, the traditional marks of the Church have supported the notion that dissent and controversy are to be discouraged. This article examines catholicity and shows that its definitions and uses in history have tied it to uniformity when its essential characteristic may well be the celebration of pluralism. Catholicity is placed in the context of modern mission theory in such a way that current challenges can be interpreted as so many new languages which require patient understanding.

John F. O. Fernandez: Enlightened Lay Catholic Reformer, 1815–1820

1981 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-129
Author(s):  
Patrick W. Carey
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Catholicism ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
American Catholic Church ◽  
The Church

The American republican form of government and the effects of the Enlightenment upon the European Catholic church provided fertile ground for theological reflection and ecclesiastical adaptation in early nineteenth-century American Catholicism. A number of immigrant Catholic laymen were influenced by their previous European Catholic experiences and by the American enthusiasm for republicanism to reform their understanding of the laity's role in the American Catholic church and to adapt ecclesiastical structures to American political institutions. In light of these experiences, some of these laymen began to reflect upon the Christian Scriptures and tradition, and to formulate a democratic conception of the layman's role within the church.

J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the Religious Cold War

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianne Kirby
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Post War ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
American Catholic Church

Despite Hoover's efforts to develop an alliance with the American Catholic Church, other Christian communities came under suspicion during the Cold War. This chapter by Dianne Kirby examines the surveillance of communities during the Cold War period that had transatlantic links and supported the continuation of the alliance with the Soviet Union or developed other contacts beyond the Iron Curtain. Her case studies include surveillance of the Russian Orthodox Church in America, which in the course of the war sought to transfer allegiance to the Moscow Patriarchate, a move that was stymied in the post-war period by deteriorating US-Soviet relations and Roman Catholic opposition.

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