Catholics In The Public Square

Author : Thomas J. Olmstead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Christianity and culture
ISBN : 1618908553

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Catholics in the Public Square by Thomas J. Olmstead Pdf

Part of The Shepherd's Voice Series-The Shepherd's Voice Series brings you the current teaching of Bishops and Cardinals on vital topics facing the Catholic Church today. As Catholics in the modern world, we have certain responsibilities to our nation, our families and ourselves. What duties we owe can be a matter of considerable debate. Popular culture tells us that we shouldn't speak about religion and politics in the public arena. But what is our authentic role as Catholics in today's world? Bishop Olmstead explains what is appropriate in today's secular world and how we should seek to influence our nation and the political process, in light of our Catholic faith. You will learn the answers to these important issues and more: How to fight against secularization in our society and the misrepresentation of faith in public How Catholics can contribute to a culture of life What role Catholic doctrine should play in the public square What issues can ban Catholics from Holy Communion What the "non-negotiable" issues are for Catholics involved in politics What main responsibilities Catholics have to their families.

Author : Thomas J. Olmsted
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:851329878

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Catholics in the Public Square by Thomas J. Olmsted Pdf

Author : Margaret O'Brien Steinfels
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742531597

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American Catholics and Civic Engagement by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Pdf

Sheed & Ward proudly presents the first of two volumes in a groundbreaking series called American Catholics in the Public Square. The result of a three-year study sponsored by Pew aimed at understanding the contributions to U.S. civic life of the Catholic, Jewish, mainline and evangelical Protestant, African-American, Latino, and Muslim communities in the United States, the two volumes in this series gather selected essays from the Commonweal Colloquia and the joint meetings organized by the Commonweal Foundation and The Faith and Reason Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington.

Author : Margaret O'Brien Steinfels
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0742531619

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American Catholics, American Culture by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Pdf

Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators and lobbyists, novelists, activists, policymakers and politicians address the most critical issues facing the Catholic Church in the United States.

Author : Thomas J. Olmsted
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 193031423X

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Catholics in the Public Square, 2nd Ed by Thomas J. Olmsted Pdf

Author : Basilica Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1930314183

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Catholics in the Public Square by Basilica Press Pdf

Author : Charles J. Chaput
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781250239778

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Things Worth Dying For by Charles J. Chaput Pdf

With a balance of wisdom, candor, and scholarly rigor the beloved archbishop emeritus of Philadelphia takes on life’s central questions: why are we here, and how can we live and die meaningfully? In Things Worth Dying For, Chaput delves richly into our yearning for God, love, honor, beauty, truth, and immortality. He reflects on our modern appetite for consumption and individualism and offers a penetrating analysis of how we got here, and how we can look to our roots and our faith to find purpose each day amid the noise of competing desires. Chaput examines the chronic questions of the human heart; the idols and false flags we create; and the nature of a life of authentic faith. He points to our longing to live and die with meaning as the key to our search for God, our loyalty to nation and kin, our conduct in war, and our service to others. Ultimately, with compelling grace, he shows us that the things worth dying for reveal most powerfully the things worth living for.

Author : James M. Patterson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812250985

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Religion in the Public Square by James M. Patterson Pdf

In Religion in the Public Square, James M. Patterson considers religious leaders who popularized theology through media campaigns designed to persuade the public. Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. Jerry Falwell differed profoundly on issues of theology and politics, but they shared an approach to public ministry that aimed directly at changing how Americans understood the nature and purpose of their country. From the 1930s through the 1950s, Sheen was an early adopter of paperbacks, radio, and television to condemn totalitarian ideologies and to defend American Catholicism against Protestant accusations of divided loyalty. During the 1950s and 1960s, King staged demonstrations and boycotts that drew the mass media to him. The attention provided him the platform to preach Christian love as a political foundation in direct opposition to white supremacy. Falwell started his own church, which he developed into a mass media empire. He then leveraged it during the late 1970s through the 1980s to influence the Republican Party by exhorting his audience to not only ally with religious conservatives around issues of abortion and the traditional family but also to vote accordingly. Sheen, King, and Falwell were so successful in popularizing their theological ideas that they won prestigious awards, had access to presidents, and witnessed the results of their labors. However, Patterson argues that Falwell's efforts broke with the longstanding refusal of religious public figures to participate directly in partisan affairs and thereby catalyzed the process of politicizing religion that undermined the Judeo-Christian consensus that formed the foundation of American politics.

Author : Scott Hahn,Brandon McGinley
Publisher : Emmaus Road Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645850724

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It Is Right and Just: Why the Future of Civilization Depends on True Religion by Scott Hahn,Brandon McGinley Pdf

Is religion a right given to us by the state? Is it an opium for the masses? Is it private opinion with no role in the public sphere? In It Is Right and Just, bestselling author Scott Hahn and Brandon McGinley challenge our idea of religion and its role in society. Hahn and McGinley argue that to answer questions over religious liberty, justice, and peace, we must first reject the insidious lie perpetuated by secular-liberal culture: that religion is a private matter. Contrary to what political commentators and activists say, religion is not only relevant to justice and law, but is necessary for civilization to thrive. Recover the public nature of true religion, It Is Right and Just argues, and watch as a revolution unfolds. Find eternal answers to today’s political confusion right now—pre-order today and get a free ebook to begin reading immediately!

Author : Richard John Neuhaus
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802800807

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The Naked Public Square by Richard John Neuhaus Pdf

Underlying the many crises in American life, writes Richard John Neuhaus, is a crisis of faith. It is not enough that more people should believe or that those who believe should believe more strongly. Rather, the faith of persons and communities must be more compellingly related to the public arena. "The naked public square"--which results from the exclusion of popular values from the public forum--will almost certainly result in the death of democracy. The great challenge, says Neuhaus, is the reconstruction of a public philosophy that can undergird American life and America's ambiguous place in the world. To be truly democratic and to endure, such a public philosophy must be grounded in values that are based on Judeo-Christian religion. The remedy begins with recognizing that democratic theory and practice, which have in the past often been indifferent or hostile to religion, must now be legitimated in terms compatible with biblical faith. Neuhaus explores the strengths and weaknesses of various sectors of American religion in pursuing this task of critical legitimation. Arguing that America is now engaged in an historic moment of testing, he draws upon Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish thinkers who have in other moments of testing seen that the stakes are very high--for America, for the promise of democratic freedom elsewhere, and possibly for God's purpose in the world. An honest analysis of the situation, says Neuhaus, shatters false polarizations between left and right, liberal and conservative. In a democratic culture, the believer's respect for nonbelievers is not a compromise but a requirement of the believer's faith. Similarly, the democratic rights of those outside the communities of religious faith can be assured only by the inclusion of religiously-grounded values in the common life. The Naked Public Square does not offer yet another partisan program for political of social change. Rather, it offers a deeply disturbing, but finally hopeful, examination of Abraham Lincoln's century-old question--whether this nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.

Author : Betty Clermont
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780932863980

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The Neo-Catholics by Betty Clermont Pdf

Volumes have been written about the role the Religious Right played in achieving its ultimate goal - the presidency of George W. Bush. But few know the primary and essential role played by Catholics in instituting and directing the Religious Right as the means for the neoconservative takeover of the U.S. government, a group the author calls neo-Catholics. The first neoconservatives - Irving Kristol, Allan Bloom, and Francis Fukuyama - were proponents of the philosopher Leo Strauss who considered the ideal state as one ruled by an intellectual elite with religion used to mollify and intimidate the masses into obedience. Not only did Catholic leaders have a millennium of experience in propping up monarchs and dictators, but also Catholics were the largest denomination in the U. S. Neoconservative Catholics were ready, willing and able to implement the American brand of church/state unification: Christian Nationalism. This book examines how hawks and neo-conservatives in the Republican Party forged a nexus with powerful right wing Catholics that would change the face of American Catholicism, the structuring of social policy in the United States, and the American agenda in the world. At the start of the 1980s, the Church’s social justice agenda had been committed to alleviating poverty, to demilitarization, to affirmative action,and to ending capital punishment-an agenda antipathetic to the Republican platform. By the end of the nineties, its justice agenda was marginalized, and political action was mobilized around concern for the dying and the unborn. Clermont's rigorous and extensively documented research examines how it was done.

Author : Charles J. Chaput
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781627796750

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Strangers in a Strange Land by Charles J. Chaput Pdf

A vivid critique of American life today and a guide to how Christians—and particularly Catholics--can live their faith vigorously, and even with hope, in a post-Christian public square. From Charles J. Chaput, author of Living the Catholic Faith and Render unto Caesar comes Strangers in a Strange Land, a fresh, urgent, and ultimately hopeful treatise on the state of Catholicism and Christianity in the United States. America today is different in kind, not just in degree, from the past. And this new reality is unlikely to be reversed. The reasons include, but aren't limited to, economic changes that widen the gulf between rich and poor; problems in the content and execution of the education system; the decline of traditional religious belief among young people; the shift from organized religion among adults to unbelief or individualized spiritualities; changes in legal theory and erosion in respect for civil and natural law; significant demographic shifts; profound new patterns in sexual behavior and identity; the growth of federal power and its disregard for religious rights; the growing isolation and elitism of the leadership classes; and the decline of a sustaining sense of family and community.

Author : William J. Collinge
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780810879799

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Historical Dictionary of Catholicism by William J. Collinge Pdf

With about one billion members, the Catholic Church is one of the world’s largest religious bodies, and its history is crucially linked to global events. In the Historical Dictionary of Catholicism, author William J. Collinge provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the theology, doctrines, and worship of the religion. He covers the entire Catholic tradition from the time of Jesus to the present, including the periods before the present division of Christianity into Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant. Collinge has also included entries on heretical, schismatic, and dissident movements within Catholicism, and he covers the relation of Catholicism to other Christian traditions, to the major non-Christian religions, and to Western cultural and philosophical traditions. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Catholicism has been updated to reflect recent developments in the Catholic Church, most notably the death of Pope John Paul II and his succession by Pope Benedict XVI. An updated introduction precedes the main body of the dictionary, which contains more than 500 alphabetical, cross-referenced entries covering persons, organizations, places, events, titles, and concepts. The entries are followed by several appendixes on popes, ecumenical councils, the documents of Vatican Council II, major papal encyclicals, and Catholic prayers, and a comprehensive bibliography provides the researcher with further readings. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Catholicism is an ideal access point for students, researchers, or anyone interested in the history of the Catholic Church.

Author : William J. Rademacher,John S. Weber,David McNeill,David McNeill, Jr.
Publisher : Twenty-Third Publications
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1585956309

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Understanding Today's Catholic Parish by William J. Rademacher,John S. Weber,David McNeill,David McNeill, Jr. Pdf

People in lay ministry know its joys and challenges well--and Faith Graham here offers guidance and inspiration for developing a spirituality based on these joys and challenges. He focuses on Jesus as a model and the church's liturgy and traditions as guides that sustain and invigorate those who serve as lay ministers today. Recommended for all parish ministers, DREs, and parish leadership teams.

Author : Hugh Heclo,Wilfred M. McClay
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015056691473

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Religion Returns to the Public Square by Hugh Heclo,Wilfred M. McClay Pdf

Despite talk of a "naked public square," religion has never really lost its place in American public life. As the twenty-first century opened, it was re-emerging in unexpected and paradoxical ways. Religious institutions were considered for expanded roles in welfare and education, at the same time that the limits of religious pluralism—as, for example, in the relation of Islam to American values—became a question of urgent public concern. Religion Returns to the Public Square;Faith and Policy in America explores how and why religion has to be mixed up with American politics. Uncovering philosophical, historical, legal, and social roots of this relationship, these essays go beyond hot-button issues to reflect on the current interactions and future possibilities of religion and politics in America.