The Impact of Non-Western Participants at Vatican ii

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-49
Author(s):  
Chris Stackaruk
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
The Impact

The Turning Point

2019 ◽  
pp. 301-352
Author(s):  
Steven K. Green
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Public Support ◽  
The Public ◽  
Education Legislation ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines the various events that undermined the public support for church–state separation in the 1960s. It considers the impact of Vatican II, of ecumenism, of the civil rights movement, and of federal social welfare and education legislation on Protestant attitudes. All of these events encouraged Protestants and Catholics to find common ground in working for the greater societal good. These events also suggested a model of church-state cooperation rather than one of separation. The chapter then segues to consider the various church–state cases before the Supreme Court between 1968 and 1975 in which the justices began to step back from applying a strict separationist approach to church–state controversies.

Understanding and Responding to Non-Affiliation

2021 ◽  
pp. 320-340
Author(s):  
James L. Heft
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
The Other ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Axial Age ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The Impact

This chapter returns to the contents of the other chapters of the book and draws some tentative conclusions. At the outset, it presents some of the assumptions of the author as he approaches this topic, reviews briefly the literature on the now-outdated classic secularization thesis, and examines several historical factors that contribute to increasing non-affiliation for Catholics, including the impact and evaluations of the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) and the possibility that we are entering a second axial age. After describing several current ways in which church people are reaching out to the non-affiliated, the chapter concludes on a hopeful note.

Spiritual Direction in the Roman Catholic Tradition

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 290-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rev Gene Barrette
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Spiritual Direction ◽  
Church History ◽  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Spiritual Director ◽  
Catholic Tradition ◽  
The Impact

This article presents the practice of spiritual direction in the Roman Catholic tradition. Specific attention is given to: definition and description of spiritual direction, scriptural roots, Roman Catholic specificity, practice in the early Church and association with the beginning of Monasticism, and the impact of Vatican II. The development of different forms of spiritual direction is presented within the context of the variety of theological, philosophical, cultural, and historical biases evident throughout church history. The process of authentic spiritual transformation and the role of the spiritual director plays are described–-both as it was understood historically and in terms of the present practice. Contrasts between spiritual direction and traditional psychotherapy are proposed.

scholarly journals An analysis of the fundamental shift in Catholic secondary religious education during the long sixties, 1955-1973

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 28-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Stafford
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Major Change ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Fundamental Shift ◽  
Church Tradition

This paper examines the fundamental shift in Catholic secondary religious education in North America during the long sixties, 1955-1973. Special focus is given to the Canadian province of Ontario. This paper argues that this fundamental shift involved a major change in orientation as the strict Neo-Thomism was abandoned after Vatican II along with the traditional teacher-led pedagogy of rote-memorization. It was replaced with a more subjective approach, emphasizing the developmental nature of Church tradition and the inner transformation of the individual. Teaching methods also changed with more student-centred strategies adopted. This paper also examines the causes and consequences of this fundamental shift, concentrating on the impact of the cultural changes of the long sixties and Vatican II. This paper argues that this shift was a needed one, but that it was too extreme leading to a period of considerable confusion in Catholic secondary religious education.

Contexts of Trends in the Catholic Church's Male Workforce:Chile, Ireland, and Poland Compared

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Conway
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
Moderate Increase ◽  
Critical Events ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Market Trends ◽  
Defection Rate ◽  
The Impact

Using case pattern analysis, this study examines Catholic male workforce trends in the majority Catholic countries of Chile, Ireland, and Poland. Employing denominational data for three categories of church male professionals in the 1950–2010 time period, I document four important trends. First, ordinations to the diocesan priesthood in Ireland went into decline especially after Vatican II, have been relatively stable in Chile with only a moderate increase in the 1990s, and spiked in Poland in the 1980s, 20 years after Vatican II. Second, in all three countries the average defection rate among diocesan seminarians increased in the 2000s compared with the earlier two decades. Third, the religious priest workforce has declined in Chile, has been relatively stable in Ireland until the 2000s, and is growing in Poland. Fourth, from the late 1960s there has been a decline in the workforce of religious brothers in each country, especially in Ireland. The theoretical contribution to the Catholic workforce literature is discussed in terms of a critical events argument emphasizing the impact of Vatican II, prophetic stances, sexual scandals, and papal visits on labor market trends. I conclude with implications for the study of religion and society in general.

Anglican Spirituality

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Loades
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Increased Sensitivity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Historical Origins

By virtue of its historical origins as well as its commitment to fundamental doctrines such as the Trinity, and the transformation of perspective as a result of ecumenism and the continuation of the Anglican Communion worldwide, Anglicans draw on an extraordinary range of resources both old and new. Reflection on scripture, saints both pre- and post-Reformation, and the willingness of present-day Christians to lay bare their own engagement with God result in a rich and demanding range of possibilities. The impact of liturgical reforms and revisions post Vatican II have resulting in the reordering of places and spaces for worship, increased sensitivity to ‘sacramentalism’ very broadly construed, attention to the arts in all their complexity, and in some cases in serious re-engagement with political and social life.

The Impact of Non-Roman Catholic Observers at Vatican II

Ecclesiology ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-312
Author(s):  
Donald W. Norwood
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Church Unity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Church ◽  
Domestic Affair

Not all accounts of Vatican II, 1962–65, recognize that the 200 carefully selected non-Roman Catholic Observers had a considerable influence on the Council and on its major documents about the Church, Church unity, liturgy, the Jews and religious freedom. Their impact is assessed both by Roman Catholic theologians like Congar and Willebrands and Observers such as Bishop Moorman and Robert McAfee Brown together with comments Karl Barth later made on some of the documents in his discussions with Pope Paul VI and others, including Ratzinger and Rahner in Rome. An attempt is made to explain how the Observers had the influence they did. One conclusion is that they helped the Council evolve from what could have been a purely domestic affair and a rubber-stamping exercise dealing with 70 documents, already prepared by the Curia, and Commissioners appointed by the Pope, into a genuinely ecumenical, deliberative, debating and decision-making council of the worldwide Church.

Pivotal Years: 1948–1965

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorelei Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Ecumenical Movement ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

The chapter considers key ecumenical developments in the period 1948–65, between the founding of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the closing of the Second Vatican Council, at which the Catholic Church finally embraced the ecumenical movement. Explaining how that period can be seen as pivotal in the history of the movement, it tracks the developing understanding of the ecumenical challenge reflected in successive assemblies of the WCC and conferences on Faith and Order, both at world level and in North America, and the growing desire for Catholic engagement in the ecumenical movement manifested particularly in the activities of the Catholic Conference for Ecumenical Questions. It then considers the teaching of Vatican II on ecumenism, for example, regarding degrees of communion, and the impact of Catholic participation on the ecumenical movement, notably in the practice of bilateral dialogues.

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