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The Catholic Reformation provides a comprehensive history of the
'Counter Reformation in early modern Europe. Starting from the
middle ages, Michael Mullett clearly traces the continuous
transformation of the Catholic religion in its structures, bodies
and doctrine. He discusses the gain in momentum of Catholic renewal
from the time of the Council of Trent, and considers the profound
effect of the Protestant Reformation in accelerating its
renovation.
This book explores how and why the Catholic Reformation occurred,
stressing that moves towards restoration were underway well before
the Protestant Reformation. Michael Mullett also shows the huge
impact it had not only on the papacy, Church leaders and religious
ritual and practice, but also on the lives of ordinary people -
their culture, arts, attitudes and relationships.
Ranging across the continent, The Catholic Reformation is an
indispensable new survey which provides a wide-ranging overview of
the religious, political and cultural history of the time.
'Utterly gripping and consistently witty' Damian Thompson, Literary
Review 'An absolutely splendid book' A. N. Wilson, The Spectator
The story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the violent
Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by the reduction in
Penal Laws against the Roman Catholics harking back to the
sixteenth century. Some fifty years later, the passing of the
Emancipation Bill was hailed as a 'bloodless revolution'. Had the
Irish Catholics been a 'millstone', as described by an English
aristocrat, or were they the prime movers? While the English
Catholic aristocracy and the Irish peasants and merchants
approached the Catholic Question in very different ways, they
manifestly shared the same objective. Antonia Fraser brings colour
and humour to the vivid drama with its huge cast of characters:
George III, who opposed Emancipation on the basis of the Coronation
Oath; his son, the indulgent Prince of Wales, who was enamoured
with the Catholic Maria Fitzherbert before the voluptuous Lady
Conyngham; Wellington and the 'born Tory' Peel vying for
leadership; 'roaring' Lord Winchilsea; the heroic Daniel O'Connell.
Expertly written and deftly argued, The King and Catholics is also
a distant mirror of our times, reflecting the political issues
arising from religious intolerance.
Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, is one of the most studied but
least understood popes of the twentieth century while his
pontificate remains the most turbulent and controversial. Although
there is a general consensus that he faced serious problems during
his tenure-fascist aggression, the Second World War, the Nazi
genocide of the Jews, the march of communism, and the Cold
War-there is disagreement on his response to these developments.
Applauded by some as an "apostle for peace" for his attempt to
prevent the outbreak of war, he has been denounced by others as an
"advocate of appeasement" for this same effort. Praised by both
Christian and Jews for his "Crusade of Charity" during the war, he
was denounced by many for his "silence" during the Holocaust. These
conflicting interpretations, dubbed the Pius Wars, are often narrow
in focus, lack objectivity, and have shed more heat than light.
Written by one of the foremost historians of Pius XII, the present
biographical study, unlike the greater part of the vast and growing
historiography of Pope Pius XII, is a balanced and nonreactive
account of his life and times. Its focus is not on the pope's
silence during the Holocaust, though it does address the issue in a
historical and objective framework. This is a biography of the man
as well as the pope. It probes the roots of his traditionalism and
legalism, his approach to modernity and reformism in Church and
society, and the influences behind his policies and actions. This
book is the first biography of Eugenio Pacelli to appear in English
since the opening of the papers of the pontificate of Pius XI
(1922-1939), in which Pacelli served as nuncio to Germany and
secretary of state, along with the publication of the memories of
figures close to Papa Pacelli.
Newly revised and updated, the second edition of English
Catholicism 1558-1642 explores the position of Catholics in early
modern English society, their political significance, and the
internal politics of the Catholic community. The Elizabethan
religious settlement of 1559 ostensibly outlawed Catholicism in
England, while subsequent events such as the papal excommunication
of Elizabeth I, the Spanish Armada, and the Gunpowder Plot led to
draconian penalties and persecution. The problem of Catholicism
preoccupied every English government between Elizabeth I and
Charles I, even if the numbers of Catholics remained small.
Nevertheless, a Catholic community not only survived in early
modern England but also exerted a surprising degree of influence.
Amid intense persecution, expressions of Catholicism ranged from
those who refused outright to attend the parish church (recusants)
to 'church papists' who remained Catholics at heart. English
Catholicism 1558-1642 shows that, against all odds, Catholics
remained an influential and historically significant minority of
religious dissenters in early modern England. Co-authored with
Francis Young, this volume has been updated to include recent
developments in the historiography of English Catholicism. It is a
useful introduction for all undergraduate students interested in
the English Reformation and early modern English history.
An invaluable collection of primary sources for the study of
eighteenth-century convent life. Between 1728 and 1744 the Catholic
lawyer Mannock Strickland (1673-1744) acted as agent for English
nuns living on the Continent, including St Monica's, Louvain, the
Brussels Dominicans and the Dunkirk Benedictines. Most convent
archives perished at the French Revolution, but Strickland's papers
survived in the archives of Mapledurham House, Oxfordshire,
offering a unique insight into the workings of English convents.
These extraordinary documents reveal the reality of exile for a
group of formidable yet vulnerable women, "doubly dead" to English
law. Two hundred letters tell stories of hardship, isolation,
severe winters, war, starvation, Jacobite intrigue and
international finance. They show that convent bursars became
skilled at playing international exchange markets yet remained at
the mercy of unscrupulous investors. The letters are presented here
with full notes; a thorough introduction sets theletters, cash day
books, bills of exchange and other documents in context. Richard G.
Williams is Librarian and Archivist of Mapledurham House; he has
also held senior posts at the University of Warwick, Imperial
College London, Birkbeck College London and at Yale University.
Robert Emmett Curran's masterful treatment of American Catholicism
in the Civil War era is the first comprehensive history of Roman
Catholics in the North and South before, during, and after the war.
Curran provides an in-depth look at how the momentous developments
of these decades affected the entire Catholic community, including
Black and indigenous Americans. He also explores the ways that
Catholics contributed to the reshaping of a nation that was testing
the fundamental proposition of equality set down by its founders.
Ultimately, Curran concludes, the revolution that the war touched
off remained unfinished, indeed was turned backward, in no small
part by Catholics who marred their pursuit of equality with a
truncated vision of who deserved to share in its realization.
In an age when few people ventured beyond their place of birth,
Andre Palmeiro left Portugal on a journey to the far side of the
world. Bearing the title Father Visitor, he was entrusted with the
daunting task of inspecting Jesuit missions spanning from
Mozambique to Japan. A global history in the guise of a biography,
The Visitor" tells the story of a theologian whose extraordinary
travels bore witness to the fruitful contact and violent collision
of East and West in the early modern era.
In India, Palmeiro was thrust into a controversy over the
missionary tactics of Roberto Nobili, who insisted on dressing the
part of an indigenous ascetic. Palmeiro walked across Southern
India to inspect Nobili s mission, recording fascinating
observations along the way. As the highest-ranking Jesuit in India,
he also coordinated missions to the Mughal Emperors and the
Ethiopian Christians, as well as the first European explorations of
the East African interior and the highlands of Tibet.
Orders from Rome sent Palmeiro farther afield in 1626, to
Macau, where he oversaw Jesuit affairs in East Asia. He played a
crucial role in creating missions in Vietnam and seized the
opportunity to visit the Chinese mission, trekking thousands of
miles to Beijing as one of China s first Western tourists. When the
Tokugawa Shogunate brutally cracked down on Christians in Japan
where neither he nor any Westerner had power to intervene Palmeiro
died from anxiety over the possibility that the last Jesuits still
alive would apostatize under torture."
Christianity, and its theological and spiritual underpinnings, does
not fulfil the needs of people living in a rapidly changing world.
For all its good intention, the Catholic Church has failed to
provide the necessary religious tools to its congregants and wider
Catholic community to confront the ecological and environmental
problems that confront mankind. This book sets out the required
parameters of spirituality within an evolutionary world context,
linking the theological with the practical, under the aegis of the
Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. His writings promote a concept
of God at the centre of the world we live in - a Christian way of
living, fully engaged. At the heart of Teilhard's world view are
creation, evolution, and the environment. He provides the spiritual
tools to understand a God that is, in real effect, our evolving
world and our actions toward it. In looking after God's world
through our daily commitment we meet the needs of the whole of
creation. And this makes Christian faith truly meaningful and of
direct relevance to our living in the world. Indeed, the second
encyclical of Pope Francis (Laudato si') with its care for our
common home message, is Teilhardian in its outlook. Likewise the
Pope's sacrament of the brother teaching. Because of the
inextricable link between human activity and the creative work of
God, Teilhard saw all human endeavour as holy. Herewith the
Ignatian theme of 'finding God in all things', coupled with a
cosmic approach to redemption and the notion of ongoing divine
creativity. Teilhard's vision is a template for understanding our
place in the world, our intimate relationship to the whole of
creation and our responsibilities to the environment and to each
other. Teilhard asks us to face the challenges of a rapidly
changing world as co-creators with God - a tremendous privilege but
also an awesome responsibility. An Appendix lists all of Teilhard's
writings and their publication sources, divided into five main
sections, and further subdivided by topic - an indispensable
resource tool for Teilhard scholars, and for readers familiar with
The Divine Milieu and The Human Phenomenon.
A famous book based on the theme of founding one\'s whole spiritual
life on the lessons we learn from the Passion and Death of Jesus.
Includes 31 meditations on different aspects of the Passion. Each
meditation has 3 points, followed by a holy resolution to be taken
and an example from the life of a Saint. The book also has many
extras -- the Five Holy Wounds, visits to a crucifix, Mary Queen of
Dolors, How to assist well at Mass, and more Impr. 393 pgs, PB
Dorothy Day died recently in New York City. With her death, the
Catholic Worker Movement lost the last of its founders and leaders.
In this insightful and well-documented study, Aronica answers the
question whether and how the Movement has survived beyond the
founders. Starting from the notion of charismatic leadership, the
author converts the Catholic Worker Movement into a test case for
the classical analysis of social organization. Through participant
observation, Aronica uncovers and explains the system of power and
authority, the process of incorporation and the services provided
to the poor by the Catholic Worker Movement. The Movement's paper,
the "Catholic Worker, "was used to help provide a typology of
membership categories. The book is more than a study in the
transformation of charismatic leadership; it is also a study of the
place of radical social thought within American Catholicism.
Aronica shows the problems that the church structure has with
grass-roots activities. She also illustrates the difficulty that a
grass-roots organization has in transforming itself into a
functioning bureaucracy. The book adds a new organizational
dimension to the growing number of books on social movements. It is
well suited for an audience interested in the sociology of religion
and for those concerned with a fruitful application of modern
ethnographic research to classical frameworks.
In the inspiring new book, 21 Ways to Worship, best-selling author,
Vinny Flynn, shares his favorite ways to pray in Eucharistic
Adoration. Written in the author's personal, conversational style,
complete with puns and other bits of humor, 21 Ways to Worship is
an easy to read, practical guide, jam-packed with inspiring ideas,
techniques, and prayers to help you make the most of your Holy
Hour. It's a perfect resource for the beginner wondering what
Adoration is all about, and for the veteran adorer looking for
additional ideas.
What Catholic social thought can teach thinkers of all faiths and
backgrounds about equitable economics Inequality is skyrocketing.
In a world of vast riches, millions of people live in extreme
poverty, barely surviving from day to day. All over the world, the
wealthy's increasing political power is biasing policy away from
the public interest toward the financial interests of the rich. At
the same time, many countries are facing financial fragility and
diminished well-being. On top of it all, a global economy driven by
fossil fuels has proven to be a collective act of self-sabotage
with the poor on the front lines. A growing chorus of economists
and politicians is demanding a new paradigm to create a global
economy for the common good. In Cathonomics, Anthony M. Annett
unites insights in economics with those from theology, philosophy,
climate science, and psychology, exposing the failures of
neoliberalism while offering us a new model rooted in the wisdom of
Catholic social teaching and classical ethical traditions. Drawing
from the work of Pope Leo XIII, Pope Francis, Thomas Aquinas, and
Aristotle, Annett applies these teachings to discuss current
economic challenges such as inequality, unemployment and
underemployment, climate change, and the roles of business and
finance. Cathonomics is an ethical and practical guide to readers
of all faiths and backgrounds seeking to create a world economy
that is more prosperous, inclusive, and sustainable for all.
Set contains both volume I & II of our popular Illustrated
Lives of the Saints. Each volume contains a brief biography of a
Saint or Blessed together with a prayer for every day of the year.
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