The Catholic Church in the Twentieth-Century American West: Spatial Realities, Demographic Growth, and Roman Observations

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-134
Author(s):  
Steven M. Avella
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
American West ◽  
Demographic Growth ◽  
The Catholic Church

Earth Ethics and American Catholic Environmentalism

2019 ◽  
pp. 146-162
Author(s):  
Sharon Erickson Nepstad
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
First Century ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The Us ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
Activist Groups ◽  
The Catholic Church

This chapter notes that American Catholics were initially quite reluctant to embrace environmentalism. It asks, after decades of political engagement with labor, poverty, peace, women’s rights, and immigration, why did US Catholics largely overlook the growing environmental problems in the twentieth century? And what caused this to change in the early twenty-first century? The chapter summarizes early Catholic efforts to promote environmentalism and describes the initial responses of the Catholic Church and its members, who often prioritized human needs over environmental matters. It also describes how the Catholic Church and Catholic laypeople started placing greater emphasis on the environment toward the end of the twentieth century. The chapter then surveys the main themes of various Catholic teachings and publications—from the US Catholic Bishops Conference’s Renewing the Earth (1991) to Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si (2015)—that have given impetus to more Catholic environmental action. The chapter concludes with a description of the work of two activist groups: the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, an ecumenical organization, and Catholic Climate Change.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 292-304
Author(s):  
Jennifer Walker
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Popular Theatre ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Catholic Church

Taking the 1903 death of Pope Leo XIII as its starting point, the conclusion extends beyond the legal separation of Church and State (1905) in order to trace the ways in which the processes of transformation that were set in motion during the late nineteenth century continued well into the twentieth century. Pierre Nora’s concept of the lieu de memoire illuminates the numerous ways that the sites of Catholic and French memory that the book explores—whether as opera, popular theatre, or concert—found an extraordinary ally in the Republic as it collectively harnessed the power of memory. From its “origin” in the French medieval era, to its transformations throughout the fin-de-siècle, to the response to the devastating fire at Notre-Dame in 2019, the Catholic Church provided (and continues to provide) a new mode of expression for the French Republic. In effect, the success of the twentieth-century renouveau catholique was set in motion by its nineteenth-century forbear: the path was paved by the Republic’s musical Ralliement and the memorialization of its Catholic past as a fundamental cornerstone of its modern existence.

scholarly journals Just War Tradition and the Popes: From Pius X to Francis

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Erik Carneiro
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Just War ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Just War Tradition ◽  
The Catholic Church

Which are the ways of knowing, understanding and justifying war by the Popes since the twentieth century? The Catholic Church has a long tradition to determine the need of wars, called the Christian just war founded by St. Augustine. Since the twentieth century, however, the popes have showed hesitation, contradiction and negligence towards just war approach.

Geografia i działalność wydawnictw katolickich w Królestwie Polskim w drugiej połowie XIX i na początku XX wieku

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicja Boruc
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Publishing Houses ◽  
The Catholic Church

Geography and the activity of Catholic publishing houses in the Kingdom of Poland in the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century This article tries to reconstruct the distribution of Catholic publishing houses that operated in the Kingdom of Poland in the second half of the nineteenth century. The author surveyed printing factories and Catholic bookshops, as well as editorial offices of magazines which spread the teachings of the Catholic Church. Publishing activities of these establishments and their importance in propagating the faith and Catholic teachings are presented.

‘The Axile Tree’

2021 ◽  
pp. 209-259
Author(s):  
Francesca Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Old English ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Dream Of The Rood ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Poetic Sequences ◽  
The Catholic Church

Chapter 5 asks how Jones’s vision of an early medieval culture in which Welsh and English tradition are equally dominant resonates throughout the poem’s eight poetic sequences in the image of the cross. The chapter traces a history of Jones’s encounters with The Dream of the Rood, the Ruthwell monument, and the history of early medieval Northumbria during the 1930s, and explores how this experience of the landscape and history of Northumberland informed his reading of the Old English Dream of the Rood tradition. Jones’s visual and verbal engagement with the Ruthwell monument at the climax of The Anathemata in ‘Sherthursdaye and Venus Day’ allows for the creation of a new sign of the cross for the twentieth century, a sign which draws together the English and Welsh traditions that have informed the institution of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, as well as the poet’s own Catholicism.

Revolution and Religion

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-38
Author(s):  
Xiaoxuan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Local Religion ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Peasant Society ◽  
Social Uncertainty ◽  
The Catholic Church

Under nation-building efforts in the first half of the twentieth century, communal temples became targets of political and military appropriation, which shook the foundations of traditional communal religion in Rui’an and Wenzhou. Yet local religion continued to thrive. Protestant churches, the Catholic Church, traditional salvationist groups, and redemptive societies all grew rapidly, perhaps due in large part to the greater social uncertainty brought about by political turbulence and wars. Since its foundation in the region in the late 1920s, communist forces stayed close to local peasant society, including their religious communities. Before 1949, they both clashed and collaborated with religious groups, depending on the circumstances.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Margaret M. Scull
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Women Religious ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
History Approach ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Catholic Church

The introduction positions this book within the context of the existing historiography and provides a succinct survey of the various approaches previously employed to present and explain the behaviour of priests, women religious, and bishops during the conflict. It offers a brief overview of the relationship between Irish Catholicism and nationalism. Through an analysis of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, the introduction traces the evolving nature of the Catholic Church in twentieth century Ireland. The introduction sets out a case for examining not just the Irish Catholic Church’s response to the conflict but that of the English and Welsh Catholic Church, arguing for an ‘entangled history’ approach. It explains the archival, oral, memoir, and newspaper sources examined for the monograph.

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