In the Name of God: State and Religion in Contemporary Italy

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-104
Author(s):  
Carlo Panara
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Artificial Insemination ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
The Media ◽  
Silvio Berlusconi ◽  
The Church ◽  
Law Making

AbstractDuring the last few years the influence of the Catholic Church on law-making and government policies in Italy has dramatically increased. The Italian Episcopal Conference established a solid alliance with the Centre-Right led by the media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. This political situation favoured the introduction of a number of hyper-conservative policies on ethical matters, from artificial insemination to abortion. In contrast, the influence of the Church was not significant in other key areas such as immigration policy. This article argues that the Church-inspired hyper-conservatism has led to the introduction of considerable restrictions to individual rights and freedoms. This situation is undermining the secular character of the Italian State and the original liberal-democratic inspiration of the Constitution.

scholarly journals Catholic Church and the Italian public television. An enduring relation with an interlude: the Council

2015 ◽  
pp. 179-199
Author(s):  
Federico Ruozzi
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Public Television ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

The article presents the entanglement of the Catholic Church and the media by focusing on the case of the Second Vatican Council and the television broadcast of its events. The mass media attention of the council stimulated, according to the author, a double level: the media conveyed more information about the church event than it had ever done before, but at the same time, the mass media influenced the discussion of the council fathers. The article also analyzes, through the lens of the Council, the recent relationship between the Catholic Church and the Italian television.  

Beyond the Catholic Church

2020 ◽  
pp. 170-194
Author(s):  
Dominica Pradere ◽  
Theron N. Ford ◽  
Blanche J. Glimps
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
North America ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Orthodox Judaism ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

Since the early 1980s, allegations of the sexual abuse of children by members of the clergy and other representatives of religious organizations have been reported in the media with alarming frequency. In North America, the majority of reports highlight the Catholic Church. Many of these allegations refer to incidents, which took place many years previously. This chapter explores three specific examples of other religious groups, that are not the Catholic Church, involved with the sexual abuse of children. These include the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons), Moravians, and Orthodox Judaism (Haredi).

Engaging the liberal state: Cardinal Manning and Irish home rule

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-54
Author(s):  
Jeffrey von Arx
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
Modus Vivendi ◽  
Otto Von Bismarck ◽  
The Church

In the course of his long career (1865–1892) as Archbishop of Westminster and head of England’s Catholic Church, Henry Edward Manning articulated a position on the engagement of voluntary religious organizations like the Church with the liberal state, now understood, at least in the British context, as religiously neutral and responsive to public opinion through increasingly democratic forms of government and mediated through political parties. The greatest test and illustration of this position was his involvement in Irish Home Rule, where he deferred to the Irish hierarchy in their support of Charles Stuart Parnell’s Irish Parliamentary Party against his own inclinations and the immediate interests of the Catholic population in England. Manning’s position was in sharp contrast to that of Pope Leo XIII, who negotiated directly with Otto von Bismarck, and over the heads of the hierarchy and Germany’s Catholic Centre Party, to end the Kulturkampf. Thus Manning worked out a modus vivendi for the Church in relation to the liberal, democratic state that anticipates in many ways the practice of the Church in politics today.

scholarly journals Marketing Communication of the Catholic Church – a Sign of the Times or Profanation of the Sacred?

Studia Humana ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sławomir Gawroński ◽  
Ilona Majkowska
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Marketing Communication ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Media Relations ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

Abstract The Catholic Church – though in popular opinion it is sometimes treated as a stronghold of conservatism, traditionalism, suspicion of progress and novelty, it changed significantly in the second half of the 20th century and continues to change its attitudes, especially in terms of the use of social communication and attitude to the media mass. The Church’s growing openness to media relations and the use of a rich instrumentation of social communication has become one of the reasons for the growing popularity of market orientation among the clergy and active believers, which opens opportunities for the development of the concept of a specific sectoral marketing formula of church marketing. In this article the authors search for the causes of the progressive phenomenon of the marketization of religion, present examples of the activities of the Polish Catholic church, inscribed in the church marketing trend, as well as define the negative consequences resulting from its dissemination. The applied research method is based on the literature analysis and case studies analysis.

scholarly journals Advertising in Communication of the Catholic Church. The Case of Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3(27)) ◽  
pp. 409-425
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Stępniak
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Persuasive Communication ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

Religious advertising as a kind of religious persuasive communication based on the element of the sacred is a Polish phenomenon. The article presents studies on religious advertising, its definition and typology and reception by select social groups. This kind of advertising confirms not only Hjelm’s concept of the visibility of religion, as it exists in both the media and public sphere, but also David Herbert’s concept of republicisation. In a country without a clear division between State and the Church, despite a well-researched decline in traditional religiosity, religion is visible in social media and facilitates development of human relationships, both online and offline. Commercial media, including the Catholic ones, seem to be perfectly subjugated to the logic of media, which supports Stig Hjarvard’s process of mediatization of religion.

The ‘New Nazis’ or the ‘People of our God’? Jews and Zionism in the Latin Church of Jerusalem, 1948–1962

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-107
Author(s):  
MARIA CHIARA RIOLI
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The People ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
The Church

In the aftermath of the Holocaust the elaboration of Catholic perceptions of the Jewish people has been particularly problematic. The weight of a long tradition of Christian antisemitism and its influence on the Nazi extermination programme, as well as the revision of this attitude before and after the Shoah in various Catholic circles as a means of promoting a rapprochement, made it difficult to redefine the image of Jewish people in the Catholic imagination, and gave rise to different and conflicting interpretations. Some members of the Latin Catholic Church of Jerusalem began to argue for an analogy between Nazism and Zionism. This assertion took different forms as the political situation in Palestine evolved and in response to changing attitudes within the Church towards the Jews. This paper will reconstruct the ‘new Nazis’ paradigm in the Jerusalem Church, analysing three key periods: the 1947–9 Arab-Israeli war; the consolidation of the State of Israel in the 1950s; and the Eichmann trial of 1961–2.

Inconvenient National Discourse and the People Who Walk to Hear It: the Case of the Slovak National Pilgrimage

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-54
Author(s):  
Alexander Bielicki
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Audience Reaction ◽  
The People ◽  
Media Constructions ◽  
The Media ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
The Church

The presence of nationalism in the Catholic Church, ostensibly global in its mission and outlook, has been a contentious issue especially in the post-communist countries of East-Central Europe. Events like the Slovak national pilgrimage to Šaštín, broadcast across the country on television, radio and internet, offer Catholic elite in Slovakia a rare chance to freely weave national history and national devotion into religious practice and discourse, but what does elite discourse actually tell us about the production and reproduction of nationhood in the Church? This article calls for increased exploration of reception of elite discourse in the media, not only to gauge audience reaction, but to better understand how the would-be recipients of these messages play a role in producing, reproducing or contesting these media constructions of national identity.

Liberal Democracy and the Right to Religious Freedom

2009 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 621-635
Author(s):  
Michael J. Perry
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Dignitatis Humanae ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Church

AbstractThe Roman Catholic Church was famously late to embrace the right to religious freedom. Some have plausibly maintained that when, in 1965, the cardinals and bishops at the Second Vatican Council overwhelmingly adopted the Declaration on Religious Freedom—known by the first two words of its official Latin version: Dignitatis Humanae—the church betrayed one of its most traditional and established theological teachings. The right to religious freedom, according to international law, rests in part on respect for human dignity. Thus there is a prima facie link between the liberal democratic justification and the church's 1965 justification. But, as I will argue, the appeal to human dignity is not a preserve of modern liberal democracy. Indeed, we can imagine a government that limits religious freedom because it wishes to save souls, and this precisely out of a respect for human dignity. A similar view was held by the pre-Vatican II church. Thus the appeal to human dignity is not evidence of a fundamental shift by the church. What then does account for the church's undeniable change of direction? Human dignity by itself cannot provide the fundamental justification for the right to religious freedom. Another ingredient is needed: distrust, born of long historical experience, of government authority to adjudicate questions of religious truth. The church in Dignitatis Humanae accepted this lesson of history, a lesson available to believers of a variety of stripes as well as nonbelievers.

scholarly journals O Papa Francisco e a imprensa no Brasil

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (319) ◽  
pp. 424-454
Author(s):  
João Miguel Teixeira de Godoy ◽  
Araripe Valderi Perez Castilho
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Religious Institution ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

Este trabalho realiza uma análise sobre a presença da religião no espaço público, mais precisamente, da Igreja católica no noticiário em veículos de comunicação não confessionais. O universo documental será composto por notícias publicadas sobre o Papa Francisco no site do jornal Folha de São Paulo e no G1, portal de notícias da Rede Globo, além do levantamento de documentos oficiais da Instituição religiosa no tocante à comunicação social. A partir dos dados identificados pretende-se demonstrar como pode ser caracterizada a presença da Igreja católica no espaço público através da mídia secular.Abstract: This paper analyzes the presence of religion in the public space, more precisely the Catholic Church in the news of non-denominational media. The documentary universe will be composed of news published about Pope Francis on the website of the newspaper Folha de São Paulo and G1, news portal of Rede Globo, and survey of official documents of the religious institution regarding the media. From the identified data we intend to demonstrate how the presence of the church in the public space can be characterized through secular media.

scholarly journals Intolerance in the Media and Representations of the Catholic Church

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 731-766
Author(s):  
David Kraner
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Editorial Policy ◽  
Local Media ◽  
National Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

Intolerance toward Christians in Europe including Slovenia is increasing and experts are not dealing with it sufficiently. The media plays a key role in disseminating information and shaping social representations. The fact that the media, due to the nature of their action, will always be in conflict with the Church, must not be a reason for intolerance. In Slovenia, the media are the central creators of negative opinions about the Church. They are very sophisticated in spreading Christianophobia. The journalists with the most published articles with negative connotations regarding the Church create negative social representations. Negative topics that are most often associated with the Church in the media are sexual abuse, money and politics. An analysis of the connotation and topic of the articles shows that the serious socio-political themes of the Church are neglected in the media. The local media mostly write positively about the Church, as they are aware of specific events, while the national media write about it negatively since they are often distant from specific events and usually evaluate them according to editorial policy criteria, and not according to professional arguments and varied opinions. The location of events covered negatively in articles happen both within and outside Slovenia. Most negative articles do not include photos; however, tabloids usually include them. By reducing the dissemination of negative and discriminatory messages about the Church and raising the ethics of reporting, intolerance towards Christians and other minorities will decrease.

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