scholarly journals Perspectives in American Catholicism

1964 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 687
Author(s):  
John Francis Bannon ◽  
John Tracy Ellis
Keyword(s):  
American Catholicism

Progressive Catholicism in the United States

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Shadle
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Ethical Framework ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
American Catholicism ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Common ◽  
American Society

American Catholicism has long adapted to US liberal institutions. Progressive Catholicism has taken the liberal values of democratic participation and human rights and made them central to its interpretation of Catholic social teaching. This chapter explores in detail the thought of David Hollenbach, S.J., a leading representative of progressive Catholicism. Hollenbach has proposed an ethical framework for an economy aimed at the common good, ensuring that the basic needs of all are met and that all are able to participate in economic life. The chapter also looks at the US Catholic bishops’ 1986 pastoral letter Economic Justice for All, which emphasizes similar themes while also promoting collaboration between the different sectors of American society for the sake of the common good.

Contrite Modernity, Contrite Catholicism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Economic Inequality ◽  
American Catholicism ◽  
Empirical Context ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
Contemporary Catholicism ◽  
The Church ◽  
Societal Role

This chapter explains the book’s objective in probing how contemporary Catholicism grapples with the challenge of maintaining relevance amid increased secularization. It discusses the theoretical and empirical context for the book’s inquiry and its anchoring in American Catholicism and society. The chapter explains why Jurgen Habermas’s construct of contrite modernity opens up new lines of dialogue and action for the Church in light of contemporary societal problems of economic inequality and related ills, and it outlines what is entailed in postsecular expectations of reflexive dialogue between moderate religious and secular actors. It also discusses the book’s working assumption that the postsecular expectations Habermas outlines for religious–secular engagement, including issues of language and authority, are the same expectations required of Catholicism as it negotiates both its public societal role and the array of doctrinal issues of particular relevance to Catholics. The chapter also briefly introduces the data and subsequent chapters.

Book Review: Frontiers in American Catholicism

1957 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 296-296
Author(s):  
Gustave Weigel
Keyword(s):  
American Catholicism

"Church and Age Unite!" The Modernist Impulse in American Catholicism

1993 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 331
Author(s):  
David L. Salvaterra ◽  
R. Scott Appleby
Keyword(s):  
American Catholicism
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