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This volume includes two early seventeenth-century translations of
Roman Catholic books by English recusant nuns - Catherine Greenbury
(a Franciscan) and Mary Percy (a Benedictine). To practise their
faith on the continent both these women fled Elizabethan England
where Roman Catholic practice had been outlawed under pain of
severe penalty (even death). Catherine Greenbury was born at York
into a wealthy upper middle-class family but left England after the
death of her husband, shortly after the birth of her daughter in or
around 1616. After establishing herself in Brussels in a convent
dedicated to St Elizabeth, she became its first elected 'Mother' in
1626. During her early years here she translated the work included
in this volume - FranAois van den Broecke's biography in Dutch of
the saintly Queen Elizabeth of Portugal. A comparison of
Greenbury's version with the Dutch text shows not only that the
translation is very competent and faithful, but also that she takes
the editorial freedom to improve the text. Lady Mary Percy,
daughter of Thomas Percy the seventh Earl of Northumberland, left
England for Flanders and in 1598 she founded a Benedictine convent
in Brussels especially for Englishwomen. Here Mary Percy translated
a 1598 French edition of Breve compendio, by the Italian Jesuit
Achille Gagliardi with his student Isabella Berinzaga, a mystical
handbook which guides the reader through a series of elaborately
defined stages striving towards 'deiformitie' - a state in which
the soul is 'united unto the will of God'.
A study of clerical reaction to the sizeable number of Catholics
who outwardly conformed to Protestantism in late 16c England. An
important and satisfying monograph... Many insights emerge from
this rich and original study, whichwhets the appetite for more.
ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW [Diarmaid MacCulloch] `Church Papist' was
a nickname, a term of abuse, for those English Catholics who
outwardly conformed to the established Protestant Church and yet
inwardly remained Roman Catholics. The more dramatic stance of
recusancy has drawn historians' attention away from this sizeable,
if statistically indefinable, proportion of Church of England
congregations, but its existence and significance is here clearly
revealed through contemporary records, challenging the sectarian
model of post-Reformation Catholicism perpetuated by previous
historians. Alexandra Walsham explores the aggressive reaction of
counter-Reformation clergy to the compromising conduct of church
papists and the threat theyposed to Catholicism's separatist image;
alongside this she explains why parish priests simultaneously
condoned qualified conformity. This scholarly and original study
thus draws into focus contemporary clerical apprehensions
andanxieties, as well as the tensions caused by the shifting
theological temper ofthe late Elizabethan and early Stuart
church.ALEXANDRA WALSHAM is Lecturer in History at the University
of Exeter.
Few areas of early modern English history have roused such passions
and interpretations as the rule of Mary Tudor and her efforts to
return the country to Catholicism following the reigns of her
father and brother. In this book, Dr Wizeman explores Catholic
theology and spirituality according to the religious literature
printed during the reign of Mary Tudor (1553-1558). As part of the
strategy to renew Catholic religion in England after the
reformations under Henry VIII and Edward VI, Marian theologians,
authors and editors produced numerous works of catechesis,
religious polemic, devotion and sermons. These writings demonstrate
that the Catholicism of Marian England was not a mere insular
reaction to the preceding decades of religious change, nor a via
media polity which eschewed important elements of traditional
religion while embracing tenets of the Reformation. Rather the
theology and spirituality of Mary Tudor's church, as well as many
of its strategies for religious renewal, was intimately connected
to - and in fact anticipated or paralleled - the theology,
spirituality and strategies for reform embraced by
Counter-Reformation Catholicism, especially after the promulgation
of the decrees of the Council of Trent (1545-1563). After
considering the recent historiography of Mary Tudor's reign, the
book contextualises these writings through a brief history of the
Marian church and a discussion of the authors and dedicatees. It
then presents an analysis of the Marian writers' and theologians'
views on revelation, christology, soteriology, ecclesiology,
sacramental theology, piety and eschatology. Finally, the study
compares the Catholic belief asserted in these works to that found
in texts by English theologians printed before 1553, especially
John Fisher, and by contemporary theologians in Europe,
particularly Bartolome Carranza, as well as the Tridentine
catechism, and the decrees and official texts of the English
Reformation.
This volume presents an interdisciplinary and systematic review of
Catholic Education Studies across Ireland and Britain. Taken
together, the chapters drill down to the foundations, identity and
leadership matters in Catholic education and schools. It is in
reading the complete volume that a more precise picture of Catholic
education in Ireland and Britain develops into sharper focus. This
is important because it reflects and crystallises the complexity
which has almost organically developed within the field of Catholic
Education Studies. It also provides a powerful antidote to the
naive reductionism that would boil Catholic education down to just
one or two fundamental issues or principles. Contemporary Catholic
education, perhaps globally but certainly in Ireland and Britain,
is best depicted in terms of being a colourful kaleidoscope of
differing perspectives. However this diversity is ultimately
grounded in the underlying unity of purpose, because each of the
contributors to this volume is a committed advocate of Catholic
education.The volume brings together a rich range of scholars into
one place, so that these voices can be listened to as a whole. It
includes contributions from leading scholars, blended with a
plethora of other voices who are emerging to become the next
generation of leading researchers in Catholic education. It also
introduces a number of newer voices to the academic context. They
present fresh perspectives and thinking about matters relating to
Catholic education and each of them confidently stand alongside the
other contributors. Moreover, these reflections on Catholic
education are important fruits to have emerged from the
collaboration made possible through the creation of the Network for
Researchers in Catholic Education, which was established in 2016
under the auspices of Heythrop College, University of London.
Offers the opportunity to spend a month with Teresa of Avila, with
readings for both morning and evening
In Talking with Catholics about the Gospel, author Chris Castaldo
provides an easy-to-follow introduction to basic Catholic belief
and practice, equipping evangelical Protestants for more fruitful
spiritual conversations. Written in accessible, non-technical
language, this short book offers readers: A more informed awareness
of Catholicism Encouragement to move from a combative posture to a
gracious one Clarification of erroneous caricatures of Catholics in
favor of a more constructive understanding Based in part on
Castaldo's experience as a Catholic and time spent working
professionally in the Catholic Church, Talking with Catholics about
the Gospel gives readers a framework for recognizing where lines of
similarity and difference fall between Catholics and evangelical
Protestants, along with handy tips for engaging in spiritual
discussions. Readers will gain encouragement and practical insights
for gracious and worthwhile discussions of faith with Catholic
believers.
This short study offers a contribution to the flourishing debate on
post-Reformation female piety. In an effort to avoid excessive
polarization condemning conventual life as restrictive or hailing
it as a privileged path towards spiritual perfection, it analyses
the reasons which led early-modern women to found new congregations
with active vocations. Were these novel communities born out of
their founders' rejection of the conventual model? Through the
comparative analysis of two congregations which became, in
seventeenth-century France and England, the embodiment of women's
efforts to become actively involved in the Catholic Reformation,
this book offers a nuanced interpretation of female religious life
and particularly of the relationship between cloistered tradition
and aposotolic vocations. Despite the differences in their national
political and religious backgrounds, both the French Ursulines and
the Institute of English Ladies shared the same aim to revitalise
the links between the Catholic faith and the people, reaching out
of the cloister and into the world by educating girls who would
later become wives and mothers. This study suggests that these
pioneering Catholic women, though in breach of Tridentine decrees,
did not turn their backs on contemplative piety: although both the
French Ursulines and the English Ladies undertook work which had
hitherto been the preserve religious men, they were motivated by
their desire to help the Church rather than by a wish to liberate
women from what eighteenth-century writers later perceived as the
shackles of conventual obedience. It is argued that the founders of
new, uncloistered congregations were embracing vocations which they
construed as personals sacrifices; they followed the arduous path
'mixed life' in an act of self-abnegation and chose apostolic work
as their early-modern reinterpretation of medieval asceticism.
In this new study, Donna B. Hamilton offers a major revisionist
reading of the works of Anthony Munday, one of the most prolific
authors of his time, who wrote and translated in many genres,
including polemical religious and political tracts, poetry,
chivalric romances, history of Britain, history of London, drama,
and city entertainments. Long dismissed as a hack who wrote only
for money, Munday is here restored to his rightful position as an
historical figure at the centre of many important political and
cultural events in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. In
Anthony Munday and the Catholics, 1560-1633, Hamilton reinterprets
Munday as a writer who began his career writing on behalf of the
Catholic cause and subsequently negotiated for several decades the
difficult terrain of an ever-changing Catholic-Protestant cultural,
religious, and political landscape. She argues that throughout his
life and writing career Munday retained his Catholic sensibility
and occasionally wrote dangerously on behalf of Catholics. Thus he
serves as an excellent case study through which present-day
scholars can come to a fuller understanding of how a person living
in this turbulent time in English history - eschewing open
resistance, exile or martyrdom - managed a long and prolific
writing career at the centre of court, theatre, and city activities
but in ways that reveal his commitment to Catholic political and
religious ideology. Individual chapters in this book cover Munday's
early writing, 1577-80; his writing about the trial and execution
of Jesuit Edmund Campion; his writing for the stage, 1590-1602; his
politically inflected translations of chivalric romance; and his
writings for and about the city of London, 1604-33. Hamilton
revisits and revalues the narratives told by earlier scholars about
hack writers, the anti-theatrical tracts, the role of the Earl of
Oxford as patron, the political-religious interests of Munday's
plays, the implications of Mu
The first three decades of Bourbon rule in France coincided with a
period of violent fragmentation followed by rapid renewal within
the French Catholic community. In the early 1590s, when Henri IV -
Protestant head of the Bourbon house - acceded to the throne,
French Catholics were at war with each other as Leaguer and
Navarrist factions fought both militarily and ideologically for
control of Catholic France. However, by 1620 a partially reconciled
French church was in the process of defining a distinctive reform
movement as French Catholics, encouraged by their monarchs, sought
to assimilate aspects of the international Catholic reformation
with Gallican traditions to renew their church. By 1650 this French
Catholic church, and its distinctive reform movement forged in the
decades following the collapse of the Catholic League, had become
one of the most influential movements in European Catholicism. This
study reconsiders the forces behind these dramatic developments
within the French church through the re-examination of a classic
question in French history: Why was the Society of Jesus able to
integrate successfully into the French church in the opening
decades of the seventeenth-century, despite being expelled from
much of the kingdom in 1594 for its alleged role in the attempted
assassination of the king? The expulsion, recall and subsequent
integration of the Society into the French church offers a unique
window into the evolution of French Catholicism between 1590 and
1620. It provides new insight into how Henri IV re-established
royal authority in the French Catholic church following the
collapse of the Catholic League and how this development helped to
heal the rifts in French Catholicism wrought by the Leaguer
movement. It also explores in unprecedented detail how Henri played
an important role in channelling religious energy in his kingdom
towards forms of Catholic piety -exemplified by his new allies the
Jesuits - which became the foundation of
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evaluating interventions of a spiritual nature in a variety of
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and Intervention: Current Directions and Applications provides you
with an overview of current and future methods and means of
providing spiritual support to the elderly as they struggle with
the problems and possibilities of aging in today's complex
world.Growing interest in the positive effects that religiousness
and spirituality can have on life stress has created a growing need
for research and practice models that strengthen, reinforce, or
promote the spiritual well-being of older adults. This collection
first presented in 2003 at the 56th Annual Scientific Meeting of
the Gerontological Society of America addresses the important care
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Current Directions and Applications examines: how older adults use
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Informative... Reliable... Accessible First published more than a
quarter century ago, The Catholic Bible: Personal Study Edition has
long served readers eager for a reliable, accessible guide to lead
them into the biblical text. Thumb-indexed for convenience, this
third edition is fully revised and augmented with new study aids
such as in-text essays on topics that enhance one's reading of the
text. The "Reading Guides" that come before the text of the New
American Bible Revised Edition - the translation used in the great
majority of U.S. Catholic parishes - provide a concise, accessible
overview of each individual book of the Bible, leading readers
through the backgrounds, characters, and messages of all the books
and their implications for our lives today. Lay people -
individuals or members of study groups - students, and general
readers will all find essential information in a form that is easy
to use and organized for quick reference.
A contemporary model of spiritual struggle shifts the emphasis from
virtue's acquisition to its pursuit Beyond Virtue Ethics offers a
distinctive approach to virtue ethics, arguing not simply for the
importance of "struggle" to virtue ethics, but that "struggle"
itself is a manifestation of virtue. In doing this, Stephen M.
Meawad offers a way of thinking about virtue not simply as a
perfected state, but as a state that is to a greater or lesser
degree a manifestation of the ideal itself, which is not
attainable. Meawad affirms the concept of the unity of virtues-that
is, the idea that a virtue is not a virtue unless united with other
perfected virtues-which is found in God. Insofar as humans grow in
unity with God, they too participate in the unity of virtues,
although always to an imperfect extent. Meawad rejects a division
between ethics and spirituality and provides two concrete examples
of this suggested model. The first is the application of this model
to the body and its implications for contemporary sexual ethics.
The second is a reintegration of ethics and Scripture through the
contemporary application of an ancient Patristic divine reading.
This book establishes for readers a contemporary model of spiritual
struggle, defining it as the exertion of effort in all conceivable
dimensions-physical, emotional, psychological, and
intellectual-with the intent to attain a semblance of, knowledge
of, and intimacy with Jesus Christ.
The neurological criteria for the determination of death remain
controversial within secular and Catholic circles, even though they
are widely accepted within the medical community. In Determining
Death by Neurological Criteria, Matthew Hanley offers both a
practical and a philosophical defense. Hanley shows that the
criteria are often misapplied in clinical settings, leading to
cases where persons declared dead apparently spontaneously revive.
These instances are often connected to a rushed decision to
retrieve donated organs, thus undermining the trust of the public
in organ donation. Hanley calls on health care institutions to take
seriously their obligation to establish strict protocols for the
determination of death, including who may conduct the examinations.
From a broader perspective, Hanley considers how the criteria rely
on a philosophical conception of the person as a living organism
whose unity disintegrates at death. This view, he notes,
corresponds to the Catholic conviction that the soul is the
life-principle of the body, which departs at death, bringing about
the destruction of the body-soul composite. The Vatican,
recognizing that death is a medical judgment, has generally given
its approval to the criteria. Hanley also reviews the many and
various objections offered by detractors, including against the use
of the apnea test, which is faulted as a practice that sometimes
hastens death. The problem of the continued presence of certain
vital functions within the deceased body of the brain dead is
explored in detail, with reference to particular cases and to
solutions proposed by leading physicians and bioethicists. Hanley
likewise addresses the dilemma of having two separate standards for
death, one neurological and the other cardiopulmonary. Given the
possibility of resuscitation following loss of the
cardio-circulatory system, he concludes that the neurological
criteria must be the true standard. Stoppage of the heart leads
swiftly to the final necrosis of the brain.
"Why did it take 30 years for American bishops to listen to the
victims of Catholic clerical abuse?" Gay Catholic Priests and
Clerical Sexual Misconduct: Breaking the Silence is a compelling
indictment of Roman Catholic teachings on homosexuality and
sexuality. Inspired by The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in
Modern Catholicism, Mark Jordan's controversial examination of
homoeroticism in American Catholic culture, this groundbreaking
book examines how the current crisis of clerical abuse affects and
stigmatizes gay priests living in a climate of hysteria and
condemnation. The book's contributors, an eclectic mix of scholars
and clerics, question whether the church can survive centuries of
secrets and scandals. In the wake of very real concerns about a
possible inquisition launched by the Catholic Church against its
gay members, Gay Catholic Priests and Clerical Sexual Misconduct
continues the efforts of the Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group of
the American Academy of Religion to honor the work of Mark Jordan,
who contributes his thoughts on the issues raised by the book. A
panel of former Jesuits, a former seminarian with the Congregation
of the Blessed Sacrament, a Dominican, a Franciscan, and several
feminist authors present different perspectives on gay priests,
clerical/ecclesial misogyny, games of power and abuse, and
religious scapegoating, writing with eloquence and pain, a great
deal of pride, and a touch of justifiable divine righteousness. Gay
Catholic Priests and Clerical Sexual Misconduct includes:"Celibate
Men, Ambivalent Saints, and Games of Desire", "A Call to Liberation
of Gay Catholic Clergy", "Speaking Loud or Shutting Up: The
Homosexual-type Problem", "Those Troubling Gay Priests",
"Catholicism and a Crisis of Intimate Relations" and much more! Gay
Catholic Priests and Clerical Sexual Misconduct: Breaking the
Silence is an invaluable resource for academics, members of the
clergy, seminarians, chaplains and counselors, and anyone
interested in homosexuality and religion.
The pontificate of Clement VII (Giulio de' Medici) is usually
regarded as amongst the most disastrous in history, and the pontiff
characterized as timid, vacillating, and avaricious. It was during
his years as pope (1523-34) that England broke away from the
Catholic Church, and relations with the Holy Roman Emperor
deteriorated to such a degree that in 1527 an Imperial army sacked
Rome and imprisoned the pontiff. Given these spectacular political
and military failures, it is perhaps unsurprising that Clement has
often elicited the scorn of historians, rather than balanced and
dispassionate analysis. This interdisciplinary volume, the first on
the subject, constitutes a major step forward in our understanding
of Clement VII's pontificate. Looking beyond Clement's well-known
failures, and anachronistic comparisons with more 'successful'
popes, it provides a fascinating insight into one of the most
pivotal periods of papal and European history. Drawing on
long-neglected sources, as rich as they are abundant, the
contributors address a wide variety of important aspects of
Clement's pontificate, re-assessing his character, familial and
personal relations, political strategies, and cultural patronage,
as well as exploring broader issues including the impact of the
Sack of Rome, and religious renewal and reform in the
pre-Tridentine period. Taken together, the essays collected here
provide the most expansive and nuanced portrayal yet offered of
Clement as pope, patron, and politician. In reconsidering the
politics and emphasizing the cultural vitality of the period, the
collection provides fresh and much-needed revision to our
understanding of Clement VII's pontificate and its critical impact
on the history of the papacy and Renaissance Europe.
Religious traditions in the United States are characterized by
ongoing tension between assimilation to the broader culture, as
typified by mainline Protestant churches, and defiant rejection of
cultural incursions, as witnessed by more sectarian movements such
as Mormonism and Hassidism. However, legal theorist and Catholic
theologian Cathleen Kaveny contends there is a third possibility-a
culture of engagement-that accommodates and respects tradition. It
also recognizes the need to interact with culture to remain
relevant and to offer critiques of social, political, legal, and
economic practices. Kaveny suggests that rather than avoid the
crisscross of the religious and secular spheres of life, we should
use this conflict as an opportunity to come together and to
encounter, challenge, contribute to, and correct one another.
Focusing on five broad areas of interest-Law as a Teacher,
Religious Liberty and Its Limits, Conversations about Culture,
Conversations about Belief, and Cases and Controversies-Kaveny
demonstrates how thoughtful and purposeful engagement can
contribute to rich, constructive, and difficult discussions between
moral and cultural traditions. This provocative collection of
Kaveny's articles from Commonweal magazine, substantially revised
and updated from their initial publication, provides astonishing
insight into a range of hot-button issues like abortion, assisted
suicide, government-sponsored torture, contraception, the Ashley
Treatment, capital punishment, and the role of religious faith in a
pluralistic society. At turns masterful and inspirational, A
Culture of Engagement is a welcome reminder of what can be gained
when a diversity of experiences and beliefs is brought to bear on
American public life.
Reginald Pole (1500-1558), cardinal and archbishop of Canterbury,
was at the centre of reform controversies in the mid 16th century -
antagonist of Henry VIII, a leader of the reform group in the Roman
Church, and nearly elected pope (Julius III was elected in his
stead). His voluminous correspondence - more than 2500 items,
including letters to him - forms a major source for historians not
only of England, but of Catholic Europe and the early Reformation
as a whole. In addition to the insight they provide on political
history, both secular and ecclesiastical, and on the spiritual
motives of reform, they also constitute a great resource for our
understanding of humanist learning and cultural patronage in the
Renaissance. Hitherto there has been no comprehensive, let alone
modern or accurate listing and analysis of this correspondence, in
large part due to the complexity of the manuscript traditions and
the difficulties of legibility. The present work makes this vast
body of material accessible to the researcher, summarising each
letter (and printing key texts usually in critical editions),
together with necessary identification and comment. The first three
volumes in this set will contain the correspondence; the fourth and
fifth will provide a biographical companion to all persons
mentioned, and will together constitute a major research tool in
their own right. This first volume covers the crucial turning point
in Pole's career: his protracted break with Henry and the
substitution of papal service for royal. One major dimension of
this rupture was a profound religious conversion which took Pole to
the brink of one of the defining moments of the Italian
Reformation, the writing of the 'Beneficio di Christo'.
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