The Problem of the Plaza: Religious Freedom, Disestablishment and the Catholic Church in Latin America’s Public Square

2016 ◽  
pp. 21-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julieta Lemaitre
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Public Square ◽  
The Catholic Church

Paths of Duty: Religion, Marriage, and the Press in a Transatlantic Scandal, 1835–1858

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 636-662
Author(s):  
SUZANNA KRIVULSKAYA
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
English Court ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Press ◽  
Church State Relations ◽  
State Relations ◽  
The Catholic Church

When the Rev. Pierce Connelly denounced Protestantism and converted to Catholicism in 1835, he inadvertently started a small newspaper war among the burgeoning religious press in America. While Catholic periodicals celebrated their newest addition in print, Protestant newspapermen were scandalized. They worried about how the clerical husband's conversion might affect his marital life should he pursue ordination in the Catholic Church. Soon, the Connellys dissolved their marriage in Rome and moved to England, where Pierce became a priest, and his wife Cornelia entered a convent. When, thirteen years later, Pierce reconverted and sued Cornelia “for the restoration of conjugal rights” in an English court, the case became an international sensation – with both British and American newspapers covering the developments and using the saga to comment on larger religious and political issues of their time. The two scandals demonstrate how the transatlantic press debated contested global concerns about the limits of religious freedom, the changing nature of marriage, church–state relations, and international law.

White Mountain as a Place of Remembrance

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-268
Author(s):  
Ingrid Papp
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Point Of Reference ◽  
New Time ◽  
The Catholic Church

Emperor Ferdinand II’s Catholic troops won a crushing victory over the Protestants’ army at the battle of White Mountain (Bílá Hora), near Prague, on 8 November 1620. Shortly after that, White Mountain became a place of remembrance and a symbol of prevail for the Catholic Bohemians. Servite monastery and a church attached to it, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, were built on the battlefield, with support from the Emperor, which symbolised the victory of the Emperor’s troops and that of the Catholic Church. White Mountain was an important place for Protestants as well. For Protestant Bohemians, the defeat was the beginning of the end of their religious freedom. Their works keep quiet about the events leading to and succeeding the battle. However, their narratives about the events of their personal lives and sufferings did use the name of this symbolic place as a point of reference for a new time frame. For them, White Mountain was a place, a cause, and a take-off of losing their homes and properties, and those of their compelled escapes and exiles.

Limits and Hopes: Catholics and Religious Freedom in the People's Republic of China

1989 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-209
Author(s):  
Geoffrey King
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Chinese Tradition ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Marxist Ideology ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Catholic Church

Despite the more liberal policies of the present Chinese government, the Catholic Church in China remains very limited in its activities. It can have no voice on matters of public policy; Catholics can give no external expression to their belief in the primacy of the Pope. This state of affairs is determined as much by Chinese tradition and the economy as by Marxist ideology. But a mission of “presence” remains possible, and there seem to be no insuperable obstacles to a model of church communion which respects both papal primacy and the Chinese desire for “autonomy”.

scholarly journals DIGNITY AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AS CONSUMER’S LAW

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-61
Author(s):  
Adam Snarski
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Religious Symbols ◽  
The Catholic Church

The article indicates the norms of law established in the European Union and Poland developed on the basis of the teachings of the Catholic Church, emphasizing the dignity and freedom of religious feelings, the consumer as a human being. The issue has been compared with the controversial advertising campaigns that broadly use religious beliefs of consumers in order to increase their effectiveness. The stimulus to discuss this issue is the intensification of controversial advertisementsusing religious symbols and cults. This publication also points out the issue of offense of religious feelings in advertising and draws attention to the normative areas of their protection.

Religious Regulation in Poland

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa A. Golebiowska ◽  
Silviya Gancheva
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Religious Expression ◽  
Public Square ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Catholic Church

It is a truism to say that most Poles are Catholic. Yet, there is also a large number of other churches and religious organizations that are currently registered with the Polish state, although they are very small in the number of adherents they boast. In comparison with other churches and religious organizations, the Catholic Church is a uniquely important social and political actor today and has played an important role in Poland’s over millennium-long history. A brief review of the history of the Catholic Church in Polish society and politics helps illustrate how the Catholic Church has come to play the role it plays in present-day Poland. At present, its relationship to the Polish state is formally outlined in the Constitution, several statutes concerning religion, the country’s criminal code, and an international agreement with the Vatican known as the concordat. Three issues—religious education in public schools, the relationship between the Church and state finances, and the Church’s openness to new religious movements—illustrate how the Catholic Church and state in Poland interact in practice. More informally, religious expression in the country’s public square provides further insight into the relationship between church and state in Poland.

scholarly journals Laïcité and atheism in France

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Personal Beliefs ◽  
French Society ◽  
Ethical Position ◽  
Beliefs And Values ◽  
Alternative Spirituality ◽  
The Catholic Church

Atheists were among the most militant supporters of laïcité in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They saw it as a means of curtailing the traditional power of the Catholic church in French society. However, in recent years, the main religious groupings have come to the defence of laïcité as a protection for religious freedom. This article traces the changing relationship between atheism and laïcité in its different forms. It identifies the main groups that advocate both principles, and examines the work of recent secular thinkers who seek to offer an alternative ethical position and even an alternative spirituality. It argues that while some atheist groups still see laïcité as a crucial weapon in the battle against religious power, the leading atheist intellectuals are focusing instead on the personal beliefs and values of citizens, and are offering new perspectives on religion and secularism.

scholarly journals Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church as an Object of the Eastern Policy of the Vatican in the Context of Catholic-Orthodox Relations

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (19) ◽  
pp. 147-157
Author(s):  
Petro Yarotskiy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Freedom Of Conscience ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Catholic Church

Until the mid-twentieth century, the Catholic Church did not recognize the principle of religious freedom, and hence the freedom of conscience. That is why her attitude to other religions, especially Christian churches, was based on the ecclesial and soteriological exclusivism "Extra Ecclesiam Romanam nulla salus" - "Out of the Roman Church there is no salvation." The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) approved the "Decree on Religious Freedom", which opened the way for dialogue with other religions and ecumenism with Christian churches, especially the Orthodox.

scholarly journals Cuarenta aniversario de los acuerdos con la Iglesia católica = Fortieth anniversary of the Catholic Church agreements

2019 ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Paulino César Pardo Prieto
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Fortieth Anniversary ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
The Catholic Church

<p>Pasados cuarenta años desde que fuera completado el sistema concordatario español, el artículo propone una amplia reflexión sobre la vigencia de estas normas cuya razón de ser radica en facilitar el ejercicio del derecho de libertad religiosa de los creyentes católicos. Después del detenido estudio de aquellos aspectos concordados que han provocado un mayor debate doctrinal y jurisprudencial, el autor concluye que los acuerdos no han servido en absoluto a dicho objetivo.</p><p align="left">After forty years since the Spanish concordat system was completed, the article proposes a broad reflection on the validity of these norms whose raison d'être is to facilitate the exercise of religious freedom of Catholic believers. After careful study of those aspects that have caused a greater doctrinal and jurisprudential debate, the author concludes that the agreements have not served this objective at all.</p>

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