Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture, and Murder, and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America

1981 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Howard Schneider ◽  
Penny Lernoux
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The People ◽  
The Catholic Church

Being Catholic and Being American

Horizons ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-63
Author(s):  
Charles E. Curran
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early American ◽  
The People ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
American Catholic Church ◽  
The Church ◽  
Historical Periods ◽  
The Catholic Church

The story of Catholicism in the United States can best be understood in light of the struggle to be both Catholic and American. This question of being both Catholic and American is currently raised with great urgency in these days because of recent tensions between the Vatican and the Catholic Church in the United States.History shows that Rome has always been suspicious and fearful that the American Catholic Church would become too American and in the process lose what is essential to its Roman Catholicism. Jay Dolan points out two historical periods in which attempts were made to incorporate more American approaches and understandings into the life of the church, but these attempts were ultimately unsuccessful.In the late eighteenth century, the young Catholic Church in the United States attempted to appropriate many American ideas into its life. Recall that at this time the Catholic Church was a very small minority church. Dolan refers to this movement as a Republican Catholicism and links this understanding with the leading figure in the early American church, John Carroll. Carroll, before he was elected by the clergy as the first bishop in the United States in 1789, had asked Rome to grant to the church in the United States that ecclesiastical liberty which the temper of the age and of the people requires.

Maryknoll China Symposium: Celebrating the Pastoral Renewal and Development of the Catholic Church in China

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-133
Author(s):  
Janet Carroll
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Women Religious ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
The People ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

An account of an academic symposium held at Maryknoll, NY, on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the China Educators and Formators Project, sponsored by Maryknoll Society. This project brings to the United States young leaders of the Catholic Church in China, chiefly women religious and priests, for graduate studies in US colleges and universities. Selected by their local bishops and superiors, they are to equip themselves with requisite skills and capacities that, upon their return to China, resource the life of dioceses, parishes, communities, and ecclesial programs for the flourishing of the faith of the people and upbuilding of the church.

Prologue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Breandán Mac Suibhne
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
The State ◽  
Seasonal Migration ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
The People ◽  
The Catholic Church

Observing the abandonment of traditional beliefs and practices in the 1830s, the scholar John O’Donovan remarked that ‘a different era—the era of infidelity—is fast approaching!’ In west Donegal, that era finally arrived c.1880, when, over much of the district, English replaced Irish as the language of the home. Yet it had been coming into view since the mid-1700s, as the district came to be fitted—through the cattle trade, seasonal migration, and protoindustrialization—into regional and global economic systems. In addition to the market, an expansion of the administrative and coercive capacity of the state and an improvement in the plant and personnel of the Catholic Church—processes that intensified in the mid-1800s—proved vital factors, as the population dwindled after the Famine, in the people breaking faith with the old and familiar and adopting the new.

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