The Archpriest Controversy: The conservative Appellants against the progressive Jesuits

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 561-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Ridgedell
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Hierarchical Order ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Catholic Clergy ◽  
Gunpowder Plot ◽  
Secular Clergy ◽  
A Chain ◽  
The Catholic Church

The Archpriest Controversy, a dispute that took place from 1598 to 1602 over the necessity for an archpriest to enforce moral discipline among the English Catholic clergy, has been traditionally seen either as a struggle for hierarchical order within the Catholic Church or a serious ideological breach between the Jesuit faction and the Appellants. In contrast to recent historiography, this paper argues that the Appellants, secular clergy that opposed the archpriest, represented views of conservative English Catholics who believed they could reconcile their political loyalty to their monarch with their Catholicism. The Archpriest Controversy should be reconsidered as a critical moment in a chain of important events from the English Mission of 1580–81 to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 that reaffirmed the inherently traditionalist nature of the Catholic community in England.

The Irish catholic clergy and emigration during the great famine

1947 ◽  
Vol 5 (20) ◽  
pp. 287-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver MacDonagh
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Public Controversy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Catholic Clergy ◽  
Great Famine ◽  
Single Voice ◽  
The Catholic Church

The catholic church in Ireland never, as a church, defined for itself an attitude towards emigration. Priests and bishops, when they spoke of emigration, usually spoke as individuals, not as members of their order. The relatively small number who have left any opinions on record were not necessarily the most influential. We cannot be certain that their views represented the feelings of the clergy as a whole. The day to day conversations and advice of ordinary priests, of which we can know little, mere far more influential in this matter than the pastorals or public letters which survive. In the place of a single voice speaking with authority or the steady murmur of unanimity, we can hear only the heterogeneous confusion of a score of voices, some perhaps seriously distorted by the public controversy in which they were raised.

scholarly journals Ks. Andrzej Dziełak „Gdyby nie kardynał kominek, nie byłoby Jana Pawła II”. Wspomnienie o Bolesławie Kominku i Orędziu biskupów Polskich do biskupów niemieckich

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 195-212
Author(s):  
Piotr Sroka
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Scientific Conference ◽  
Catholic Clergy ◽  
Communist State ◽  
Pastoral Letter ◽  
Communist Government ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Catholic Church

An account given by Rev. Andrzej Dziełak is one of over a dozen such narratives written down for a scientific conference “Cardinal Kominek – a forerunner of the Polish-German reconciliation” which was organized by The Memory and Future Institute (Wrocław, 4th December 2008). These conference documents give us insight into circumstances and consequences of the Polish bishops addressing the German bishops. In some parts, these documents are focused in the narrative of Rev. Andrzej Dziełak, who in 1965 was a clerical student in the Higher Seminary in Wrocław. For contemporary clerics Cardinal Kominek was an indisputable authority, both moral and intellectual. Every Saturday during a seminary meeting he would share with them his observations on the situation of the Catholic Church in those days in Poland and abroad, and on complex relations with the communist state. Still, the Pastoral Letter of the Polish bishops to the German bishops turned out to be a huge surprise to the Catholic clergy of Wrocław, especially since at the beginning they did not have the text of the document at their disposal. Rev. Dziełak admits that at the beginning the message conveyed in the Letter was received with reluctance by a great part of the congregation. This was due to the recent war and a successful propaganda of the communist government. However, right from the beginning, clerics had no doubts as to the identity of the author of the groundbreaking document – they knew that it was prepared by a bishop of Wrocław who was the most knowledgeable person in the Episcopate regarding German issues.

Father, Where Art Thou? Catholic Priests and Mexico's 1929 Relación de Sacerdotes

2018 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 635-667
Author(s):  
Matthew Butler ◽  
Kevin D. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Catholic Priests ◽  
Catholic Clergy ◽  
Cristero Rebellion ◽  
Religious Crisis ◽  
The Catholic Church

Abstract This article studies an ecclesiastical census, the Relación de sacerdotes, that was compiled by the Secretariat of the Interior during Mexico's Cristero War in 1929. We propose that this statistical device ultimately helped the Catholic Church and the Portes Gil government to plot a way out of the religious crisis. It did so by providing a mutually acceptable means for priests to register with the postrevolutionary state and by providing a discursive mechanism for the Catholic clergy to present itself to the regime as a national, less Rome-oriented body. The Relación can therefore give historians insights into the contingent and bureaucratic ways that revolutionary and ecclesiastical elites renegotiated the contours of Mexico's secular order. The second half of the article contains an analysis of the Relación. There we argue that the Relación offers a kind of prosopographical and political snapshot of the Mexican clergy during the Cristero Rebellion.

The narrow road: Harry Midgley and Catholic schools in Northern Ireland

1997 ◽  
Vol 30 (119) ◽  
pp. 429-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael McGrath
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Catholic Schools ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Catholic Clergy ◽  
The Government ◽  
Narrow Road ◽  
The Catholic Church

The Ministry of Education was, and remains, the most important government department for the Catholic church in Northern Ireland. As Cormack, Gallagher and Osborne note, The Department of Education in Northern Ireland occupies a distinctive place in terms of the general relationships between the government and the Catholic community. Throughout the period since the creation of Northern Ireland, the most significant social institution over which the Catholic community has exercised control, principally through the Catholic church, has been the Catholic education system.The devolved government appeared to recognise Catholic educational interests by usually appointing as Minister of Education one of the more liberal figures within the Ulster Unionist Party such as Lord Londonderry, Lord Charlemont and Samuel Hall-Thompson. However, in the first week of 1950 Sir Basil Brooke ‘surprised everyone, and appalled Catholics’ by appointing Harry Midgley, an avowed opponent of the Catholic clergy and autonomous Catholic schools, as Northern Ireland’s sixth Minister of Education.

State intervention in disputes between secular and regular clergy in early seventeenth-century Ireland

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-326
Author(s):  
Mark Empey
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Initial Period ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Decisive Factor ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Counter Reformation ◽  
Secular Clergy ◽  
The Catholic Church ◽  
Episcopal Authority

The success of the Counter-Reformation in Ireland following the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy was a remarkable achievement. Between 1618 and 1630 Rome made a staggering nineteen episcopal appointments in a kingdom that was ruled by a Protestant king. Documenting the achievements of the initial period only paints half the picture, however. The implementation of the Tridentine reforms and the thorny issue of episcopal authority brought the religious orders into a head-on collision with the secular clergy. This protracted dispute lasted for a decade, most notably in the diocese of Dublin where an English secular priest, Paul Harris, led a hostile attack on the Franciscan archbishop, Thomas Fleming. The longevity of the feud, though, owed at least as much to the intervention of Lord Deputy Sir Thomas Wentworth as it did to the internal tensions of the Catholic Church. Despite Wentworth’s influential role, he has been largely written out of the conflict. This article addresses the lacunae in the current historiography and argues that the lord deputy’s interference was a decisive factor in exacerbating the hostilities between the secular and regular clergy in early seventeenth-century Ireland.

Catholic clerical responses to climate change and Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’

2020 ◽  
pp. 251484862097402
Author(s):  
Dominic Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Environmental Action ◽  
Environmental Movements ◽  
Catholic Clergy ◽  
The World ◽  
Systemic Barriers ◽  
The Catholic Church

The 2015 release of Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment—Laudato Si’—was met with widespread praise by many who hoped this document would spur Catholics around the world to join movements struggling against climate change. Frequently, these hopes were accompanied by expectations that leaders in the Catholic Church would begin greening their churches and help integrate their parishioners into broader environmental movements. However, while there are strong theoretical rationales supporting Catholic environmental action, few studies have examined what—if anything—is actually happening. This paper responds to this gap by assessing how Catholic clergy in one U.S. diocese are engaging environmental concerns. Drawing upon 31 interviews with priests and deacons across the Diocese of Syracuse, N.Y., this study finds that few clergy are substantively engaging environmental issues. In addition, this paper identifies and discusses several personal and systemic barriers hampering Catholic clerical efforts to further green their churches.

The Origins of St. Gregory’s, Paris

1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antony F. Allison
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The Other ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Small College ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
Secular Clergy ◽  
The Catholic Church ◽  
The Revolution

St. Gregory’s was a small college belonging to the English secular clergy founded at Paris in the late seventeenth century. Its main purpose was to enable suitable ecclesiastics who had completed their training at Douai or the other colleges abroad to pursue advanced studies at the Sorbonne before working on the mission in England. Its founders hoped it would serve to produce a corps of highly qualified men to fill the leading administrative and teaching posts in the Catholic Church in England. It survived until 1786 when financial difficulties forced it to close—temporarily, as was at first thought. During the Revolution it suffered the fate of the other English Catholic institutions in France, and it never, in fact, reopened. Among the documents that have survived from its archives is a Register Book covering the whole period of its existence from its first beginnings in 1667 until it closed down over a century later. This Register Book, which records the arrival and departure of students, the stages in their university career, their promotion to holy orders, deaths occurring at the college, and occasional memoranda of events affecting the life of the community, was edited for the Catholic Record Society in 1917 by the late Monsignor Edwin Burton.

Presentation of the Preaching Activity in the Greek-Catholic Church in Slovakia

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Ľubomír Petrík
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Catholic Priests ◽  
Catholic Clergy ◽  
The Catholic Church

Presentation of the Preaching Activity in the Greek-Catholic Church in Slovakia The author of the article Presentation of the Preaching Activity in the Greek-Catholic Church in Slovakia offers the view on the current preaching activity of the Greek-Catholic clergy in Slovakia. He states, it is in complete union with the Documents of the Catholic Church of which the Greek-Catholic Church is an integral part. The most used form of preaching among the Greek-Catholic priests is the homily. The author also focuses on some specifics of the preaching activity in the Greek-Catholic Church.

The Limits of American Catholic Antifascism: The Case of John A. Ryan

1990 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilson D. Miscamble
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
Benito Mussolini ◽  
Catholic Clergy ◽  
Thorn In The Flesh ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
The Catholic Church

Writing in the midst of World War II, the Italian exiles Gaetano Salvemini and Giorgio La Piana charged that the Catholic church in America had bestowed its blessing upon Benito Mussolini and fascism.1 In discussing this charge the historian John Diggins admitted that “at first glance it does appear that the American clergy had indeed composed a political choir in behalf of Fascism.”2 Diggins portrayed a large number of Catholic clergy led by figures like Cardinal William O'Connell of Boston and Father Charles E. Coughlin who found occasion to praise Mussolini. He outlined the views of the major Catholic periodicals and discovered that only the Paulist-sponsored Catholic World took exception to fascism with any consistency.3 Nonetheless, Diggins partially dismissed the charge of Salvemini and La Piana. He argued that the Catholic church in the United States during the interwar years was not a pro-Fascist monolith and briefly touched on the anti-Fascist endeavors of such individuals as Monsignor Joseph Giarrochi, Father Francis Duffy, and Father James Gillis, C.S.P., the erstwhile editor of the Catholic World. Notably, Diggins accorded particular status among Catholic anti-Fascists to Monsignor John A. Ryan, whom he described as having waged “a relentless assault upon Mussolini's dictatorship and upon the Catholic defense of Fascism” and as being “the theological thorn in the flesh of complacent Catholic apologists for Fascism.”4

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