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.

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.

Comments on “The Crisis in Church-state Relationships in the U.S.A.”

1999 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 710-714
Author(s):  
Francis J. Connell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

The author seems to have no regard for the supernatural life and vigor of the Catholic Church. He proposes as the most necessary means of protecting the Church from grave harm in the United States something natural—the “adaptation” of a traditional Catholic doctrine to a naturalistic concept of the State. The truth is that the most effective means toward preserving the Church from harm and promoting its apostolic activity will be found in a more ardent zeal on the part of bishops and priests and in a more faithful observance of God's law by Catholics. It should not be forgotten that Christ has promised to abide with His Church and to sustain it, so that the gates of hell shall never prevail against it. The author does not take this promise into consideration.

Samuel Mazzuchelli, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, and the Making of American Saints

2020 ◽  
pp. 316-344
Author(s):  
Kathleen Sprows Cummings
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Historical Landscape ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

The lives and ministries of Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli and Rose Hawthorne Lathrop testify to the capaciousness of the Dominican spirit and the extraordinary ways it has manifested itself in the United States. The Catholic Church is presently considering causes for canonization for both Mazzuchelli and Lathrop. This essay explores their trajectories as candidates for canonization, along with those of other recognized and prospective U.S. saints with whom their stories are intertwined. Using the lives and afterlives of Mazzuchelli and Lathrop, the essay situates the Dominican story in the broader historical landscape of US Catholicism. It also illustrates how US saints reflect the ways American Catholics navigate their identities within the Church, especially after the epochal shifts initiated by the Second Vatican Council and in light of the demographic and culture trends shaping contemporary US Catholicism.

Interrupting Capitalism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Shadle
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

Although the anxieties caused by globalization and the turmoil of the financial crisis have left people looking for alternatives to our present economic system, the Catholic Church in the United States has not adequately drawn upon its own tradition of social teaching to help the faithful contribute to this search. This chapter argues that the church has failed to adapt to the contemporary condition of postmodernity, characterized by postsecularism, pluralization, and individualization. It traces how capitalism emerged as part of the modernization and secularization process, but that now we have entered a postmodern era to which the church must adapt its social teaching on economic life.

scholarly journals Ritual Brobosan Sebagai Penghormatan Terakhir dalam Liturgi Pemakaman Jawa-Kristiani

MELINTAS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-227
Author(s):  
Agustinus Wimbodo Purnomo
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Funeral Rites ◽  
The People ◽  
Paschal Mystery ◽  
Bereaved Family ◽  
The Church ◽  
Funeral Ceremony ◽  
The Catholic Church

The Catholic Church provides occasions for funeral rites so as to illuminate the death of the faithful within the paschal mystery of Christ. The Church administers the funeral and offers prayers for its departing members to escort them to the afterlife. Funeral ceremonies are held to comfort the bereaved family, but also to strengthen the faith of the people. Therefore, the funeral ceremony could be seen as a pastoral means to foster the faith of the believers and at the same time to evangelise the gospel. Inculturation could be seen as a process to help the faithful experience God’s saving presence in the liturgy from their respective cultures. In this article, the author views the funeral of the faithful as an entrance for inculturation, bringing Christian liturgy towards the local culture, which in this paper is the Javanese culture, and vice versa. The Javanese culture has its own philosophy in escorting the departing souls through its rituals. This article attempts to integrate what has been a ritual of death in the Javanese culture, i. e. brobosan, which shows a gesture of giving respect to the departed, in the Catholic funeral liturgy, particularly in the last part of the rite.

Charles Plater and the Practice of Retreat in the Church of England

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-552
Author(s):  
Canon John Tyers
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Significant Growth ◽  
The People ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

While still a novice, the English Jesuit Charles Plater (1875–1921), through his energy, brilliance, enthusiasm and attractive personality was influential in the foundation of the Catholic Social Guild and other social projects. In particular, he motivated the establishment of retreat houses for working men within the Catholic Church in England, work which he described in his book Retreats for the People. This volume attracted the attention of many within the Church of England, encouraging a number of initiatives which, among other things, led to a significant growth in the numbers of Anglicans who made a retreat and to the establishment of diocesan retreat houses.

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