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This volume deals with the problem of State and Church in the
Middle Ages from a new angle. It not only shows how and why the
medieval popes pursued a policy of world domination, but also
discloses the ideas by which the papal monarchs were primarily
influenced.
* Equips readers including criminal justice students and justice
system agents, as well as clergy and lay people, with knowledge
regarding sex crimes and sexual offenders so they can better
recognize potential sexual exploitation in church settings. * Ideal
as a primary or supplementary text in a criminal justice curriculum
or in religious colleges and seminaries preparing clergy and church
leaders. * Offers a unique in-depth review of the vulnerabilities
associated with church environments and sexual crimes.
Back by popular demand, the bestselling Politically Incorrect
Guides provide an unvarnished, unapologetic overview of
controversial topics every American should understand. The
Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism refutes
misrepresentations and misconceptions about the Catholic Church and
separates rumor from truth when it comes to Catholic traditions,
faith, and controversial leaders.
Rethinking Catholicism in Renaissance Spain claims that theology
and canon law were decisive for shaping ideas, debates, and
decisions about key political and religious problems in Renaissance
Spain. This book studies Catholic thought during the Spanish
Renaissance, with the various contributors specifically exploring
the ecclesiology and heresiology of the period. Today, these two
subjects are considered to be strictly branches of theology, but at
the time, they were also dealt with in the field of canon law. Both
ecclesiology, which studied the internal structure of the Church,
and heresiology, which identified theological errors, played an
important role in shaping ideas, debates, and decisions concerning
the major political and religious problems of the late medieval and
early modern periods. In contrast to the conventional monolithic
view of Spanish Catholic thought on ecclesiastical matters, the
chapters in this book demonstrate that there was a wide spectrum of
ideas in the field of theology and canon law. The topics analyzed
include Church and Crown relations, diplomatic controversies,
doctrinal debates on slavery, ecclesiological disputes in dialogue
with the Council of Trent, and theories for distinguishing heresies
and repressing them. This book will be essential reading for those
interested in disciplines such as Church history, political
history, and the history of political and legal thought.
St. Joseph picture books. A golden treasury of the Catholic Faith.
The Stations Of The Cross.
This book offers a new perspective on the often-overlooked lives of
lay women in the English Roman Catholic Church. It explores how
over a century ago in England some exceptional Catholic lay women
– Margaret Fletcher, Maude Petre, Radclyffe Hall, and Mabel
Batten - negotiated non-traditional family lives and were actively
practicing their faith, while not adhering to perceived structures
of femininity, power, and sexuality. Focusing on c. 1880-1930, a
time of dynamism and change in both England and the Church, these
remarkable women represent a rethinking of what it meant to be a
lay women in the English Roman Catholic Church. Their pious
transgressions demonstrate the multiplicity of ways lay women
powerfully asserted aspects of their faith while contravening
boundaries traditionally assumed for them in an ostensibly
patriarchal religion. In fact, the Church could be a place for
expressions of unconventional religiosity and reinterpretations of
womanhood and domesticity. Connecting together the lives of these
women for the first time, this work fills a lacuna in the
scholarship of modern Catholic and gender history. Drawing from
private collections and numerous archives, it illustrates the
surprising range of modes of Lived Catholicism and devotion to
faith. Students and scholars of Catholicism, gender, and LGBTQIA+
studies will find significant merit in a book that assigns lay
women a more prominent role in the English Catholic Church and
offers examples of the flexibility of Roman Catholicism.
This book identifies both the consistencies and disparities between
Catholic Social Teaching and the United Nation's (UN) Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs). With Pope Francis' Laudato si'
encyclical, Catholicism seems to be engaging more than ever with
environmental and developmental concerns. However, there remains
the question of how these theological statements will be put into
practice. The ongoing involvement of the Catholic Church in social
matters makes it a significant potential partner in issues around
development. Therefore, with the use of the comparative method,
this book brings together authors from multiple disciplines to
assess how the political and legal aspects of each of the UN's 17
SDGs are addressed by Catholic Social Teaching. Chapters answer the
question of how the Catholic Church evaluates the concept of
sustainable development as defined by the Agenda 2030 Goals, as
well as assessing how and if it can contribute to shaping the
contemporary concept of global development. Examining the potential
level of cooperation between the international community and the
Catholic Church in the implementation of the Agenda 2030 Goals,
this volume will be of keen interest to scholars of Catholic
Studies, Religious Studies and the Sociology of Religion, as well
as Environmental Studies and Development Studies.
In Subversive Habits, Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full
history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them
as the forgotten prophets of Catholicism and democracy. Drawing on
oral histories and previously sealed Church records, Williams
demonstrates how master narratives of women's religious life and
Catholic commitments to racial and gender justice fundamentally
change when the lives and experiences of African American nuns are
taken seriously. For Black Catholic women and girls, embracing the
celibate religious state constituted a radical act of resistance to
white supremacy and the sexual terrorism built into chattel slavery
and segregation. Williams shows how Black sisters-such as Sister
Mary Antona Ebo, who was the only Black member of the inaugural
delegation of Catholic sisters to travel to Selma, Alabama, and
join the Black voting rights marches of 1965-were pioneering
religious leaders, educators, healthcare professionals,
desegregation foot soldiers, Black Power activists, and womanist
theologians. In the process, Williams calls attention to Catholic
women's religious life as a stronghold of white supremacy and
racial segregation-and thus an important battleground in the long
African American freedom struggle.
The book that can help you reconcile being both gay and Catholic
Sons of the Church: The Witnessing of Gay Catholic Men spotlights
testimonials from over thirty gay Catholic men to answer the
question, How can you be gay and Catholic? Dr. Thomas B. Stevenson,
who received degrees from the University of Notre Dame, Boston
College, and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, explores
this question, using various interviews to thoroughly analyze the
many dimensions of being gay and Catholic while providing a
powerful and convincing criticism of Church teaching on
homosexuality. This thoughtful, surprisingly reverent book is the
answer for those gay readers who long for a religious connection,
as well as for Catholic readers and those in pastoral positions who
want and need to hear the stories of gay people firsthand. Sons of
the Church: The Witnessing of Gay Catholic Men tells one storythe
story of what it is like to be gay and Catholicthrough the various
stories of over thirty gay Catholic men. Each chapter is arranged
thematically, beginning with experiences of being homosexual and
Catholic during childhood and youth. Subsequent chapters delve into
the ways these men each finally accepted themselves and integrated
their sexuality, related to others who did or did not understand,
dealt with homosexual promiscuity, found intimate relationships,
became a part of a community, and ultimately came to terms with the
Catholic Church and their faith. Throughout, these 'witnesses'
explain how their faith in God guides them through the various
experiences and issues they face. The positive aspects of Catholic
Christianity are respectfully explored at the same time as the
present Church teaching on homosexuality is challenged. Sons of the
Church uses interviews to explore: Catholics coming to terms with
their homosexuality the experiences of young men recognizing their
sexuality suffering and oppression by society and the Church
acceptance of self integration of goodness and lovability of
homosexuality moral issues of promiscuity among gay men gay
relationships and the Catholic dimensions of commitment criticisms
of gay culture the Catholic Church teachings on homosexuality the
answer to the question, How can you be gay and Catholic? Sons of
the Church: The Witnessing of Gay Catholic Men is enlightening
reading essential for educators, students, counselors, priests,
nuns, psychologists, and theologians. Catholic people, gay people,
and every educated reader will find that the interviews and ideas
here stimulate thought and create a greater understanding of the
issue of homosexuality and faith.
A fully interdisciplinary exploration of Irish Studies' development
since the end of the Celtic Tiger (contributors include scholars
from literary studies, history, sports studies, performance
studies, music studies, language studies, politics, economics,
media studies, art and visual culture, gender studies, and more)
Includes essays from scholars and practitioners in Ireland, the US,
and the UK Includes several essays that consider Irish studies in
relation to ecological crisis, including the global pandemic
Includes essays from both emerging and well-established scholars
Addresses intersections between Irish studies and diverse
theoretical frameworks, including queer theory, ecocriticism,
critical race studies, feminist theory, disability studies,
postcolonial theory, and queer theory.
The complete and unedited edition of Thomas Merton's famous
autobiography, one of the greatest works of spiritual pilgrimage
ever written. 'The Seven Storey Mountain is a book one reads with a
pencil so as to make it one's own.' Graham Greene 'A remarkable
book, a classic of its kind, written in a vivid, rich and alert
style which ranges from crisp vernacular to passionate eloquence,
full of picturesque incident and passing at times into religious
ecstasy.' The Times Literary Supplement 'A book which may well
prove to be of permanent interest in the history of religious
experience.' Evelyn Waugh
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Vatican Cookbook
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Vatican City; David Geisser; Contributions by Edwin Niederberger, Thomas Kelly
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