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The Liturgy Hours or Divine Office has been commonly known as the
breviary or priests' daily prayerbook. The liturgical reform of
Vatican II has restored the Divine Office to its original purpose,
the prayer of the entire Church.
In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in
the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys, two of whom represented
important Christian daimyo in western Japan, to Europe. This book
is an account of their travels. The boys left Japan on 20 February
1582 and disembarked in Lisbon on 11 August 1584. They then
travelled through Portugal, Spain and Italy as far as Rome, the
highpoint of their journey, before returning to Lisbon to begin the
long voyage home on 13 April 1586. They reached Nagasaki on 21 July
1590, amidst great rejoicing, more than eight years after their
departure. During their travels in Europe they had audiences and
less formal meetings with Philip II, king of Spain and Portugal,
and with popes Gregory XIII and Sixtus V, and were received by many
of the most important political, ecclesiastical and social figures
in the places they visited. Until the arrival of the embassy in
Europe, the Euro-Japanese encounter had been almost exclusively one
way: Europeans going to Japan. The embassy was an integral part of
Valignano's strategy for advancing the Jesuit mission in Japan. The
boys chosen were intended to personify Jesuit success in Japan,
raise awareness of Japan in Europe amongst the clerical and secular
elites, and demonstrate conclusively that what the Jesuits had been
writing about Japan since their arrival there in 1549 was not a
fabrication. The embassy was further intended to impress upon the
boys the glory, unity, stability and splendour of Christian Europe,
so that they might report favourably about their experiences on
their return, and counter what Valignano believed were the negative
impressions of Europe left by Portuguese merchants and seamen in
Japan. As part of this plan, a book consisting of thirty-four
colloquia detailing the boys' travels was compiled and translated
into Latin under Valignano's supervision. It was published in Macao
in 1590 with the title De Missione Legatorvm Iaponensium ad Romanum
curiam. Valignano anticipated that it would become a standard text
in Jesuit seminaries in Japan. The present edition is the first
complete version of this rich, complex and impressive work to
appear in English, and is accompanied with maps and illustrations
of the mission, and an introduction discussing its context and the
subsequent reception of the book.
Account of an important Catholic family in early modern East
Anglia, demonstrating their influence upon their wider community.
For almost 250 years the Gages of Hengrave Hall, near Bury St
Edmunds, were the leading Roman Catholic family in Suffolk, and the
sponsors and protectors of most Catholic missionary endeavours in
the western half of the county. This book traces their rise from an
offshoot of a Sussex recusant family, to the extinction of the
senior line in 1767, when the Gages became the Rookwood Gages.
Drawing for the first time on the extensive records of the Gage
familyin Cambridge University Library, the book considers the Gages
as part of the wider Catholic community of Bury St Edmunds and west
Suffolk, and includes transcriptions of selected family letters as
well as the surviving eighteenth-century Benedictine and Jesuit
mission registers for Bury St Edmunds. Although the Gages were the
wealthiest and most influential Catholics in the region, the
gradual separation and independent growth of the urban Catholic
community in Bury St Edmunds challenges the idea that
eighteenth-century Catholicism in the south of England was moribund
and "seigneurial". The author argues that in the end, the Gages'
achievement was to create a Catholic community that could
eventually survive without their patronage. Francis Young gained
his doctorate from the University of Cambridge.
This title was first published in 2002. Misguided Morality presents
a survey of how the Catholic moral programme has failed to make a
decisive impact on the behaviour of the Church's members. Despite a
cogent theology of human conduct, the author argues that its
effectiveness is not impressive. This book analyses what has gone
wrong in the transmission of the New Testament ideals. The book
covers the whole field of morality, starting with the bible and
tracing the historical and sociological factors which have effected
the dilution of those ideals, frequently to the level of anodyne
respectability. Having explored the causes of failure, the author
offers positive suggestions for improvement in each area where
shortcomings have been revealed. Combining loyalty to the Roman
Catholic Church, with constructive criticism of shortcomings in
implementing moral policies, this book is essential reading to
those studying and participating in Catholic moral teaching in the
contemporary church. The author is well known for his books on the
challenges to the Church after Vatican II, including his books
Mission or Maintenance, and Whatever Happened to Vatican II.
This volume is about Pope Francis, the diplomat. In his eight years
of pontificate, Pope Francis as a peacemaker has propagated the
ideas of human and divine cooperation to build a global human
fraternity through his journeys outside the Vatican. This book
discusses his endeavours to connect and develop a common peaceful
international order between countries, faith communities, and even
antagonistic communities through a peaceful journey of human
beings. The book analyses his speeches, and meetings as a diplomat
of peace, including his visits to Cuba and the United States, and
his mediations for peace in Colombia, Myanmar, Kenya, Egypt,
Turkey, Jordan, Jerusalem, the Central African Republic, Sri Lanka,
and Bangladesh. It discusses the role of Pope Francis as mediator
in different circumstances through his own writings, letters, and
Vatican documents; his encounters with world leaders; as well as
his contributions to a universal understanding on inter-faith
dialogue, climate change and the environment, and human migration
and the refugee crisis. The volume also sheds light on his ideas on
a post-pandemic just social order, as summarised in his 2020
encyclical. A definitive work on the diplomacy and the travels of
Pope Francis, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and
researchers of religious studies, peace and conflict studies,
ethics and philosophy, and political science and international
relations. It will be of great interest to the general reader as
well.
Bringing together narratives and theory-based analyses of practice,
this volume illustrates collaborative curricular and co-curricular
approaches to promoting vocational discernment amongst students in
a Catholic university setting. Drawing on cultural, religious, and
secular understandings of vocation, Engaging with Vocation on
Campus illustrates how contemporary issues around vocation, work,
and careers can be addressed within the Catholic intellectual and
spiritual tradition. Chapters presents a range of contributions
from students, faculty, and staff from a single institution to
highlight practical approaches to supporting students in this area,
and acknowledge the complementary and intersecting roles played by
student support services, academic staff, and on-campus ministry in
helping students develop an individualised understanding of
vocation. Considering the value of both curricular or
non-curricular activities and processes, the volume highlights
spiritual, personal, and community value in offering students
explicit and tailored support. This text will benefit researchers,
academics, and educators with an interest in higher education,
religious education, and the Christian life and experience more
broadly. Those specifically interested in career guidance,
theological curriculum and pedagogy, and Roman Catholicism will
also benefit from this book.
This book offers an academically rigorous examination of the
biological, psychological, social and ecclesiastical processes that
allowed sexual abuse in the Catholic Church to happen and then be
covered up. The collected essays provide a means to better assess
systemic wrongdoing in religious institutions, so that they can be
more effectively held to account. An international team of
contributors apply a necessarily multi-disciplinary approach to
this difficult subject. Chapters look closely at the sexual abuse
of minors by Roman Catholic clerics, explaining the complexity of
this issue, which cannot be reduced to simple misconduct, sexual
deviation, or a management failure alone. The book will help the
reader to better understand the social, organizational, and
cultural processes in the Church over recent decades, as well as
the intricate world of beliefs, moral rules, and behaviours. It
concludes with some strategies for change at the individual and
corporate levels that will better ensure safeguarding within the
Catholic Church and its affiliate institutions. This multifaceted
study gives a nuanced analysis of this huge organizational failure
and offers recommendations for effective ways of preventing it in
the future. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of
Religious Studies, Sociology of Religion, Psychology, Psychiatry,
Legal Studies, Ethics, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, History, and
Theology.
*Winner of the James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize 2022* In Ireland, 2018,
a constitutional ban that equated the life of a woman to the life
of a fertilised embryo was overturned and abortion was finally
legalised. This victory for the Irish Repeal movement set the
country alight with euphoria. But, for some, the celebrations were
short-lived - the new legislation turned out to be one of the most
conservative in Europe. People still travel overseas for abortions
and services are not yet fully commissioned in Northern Ireland.
This book traces the history of the origins of the Eighth
Amendment, which was drawn up in fear of a tide of liberal reforms
across Europe. It draws out the lessons learned from the
groundbreaking campaign in 2018, which was the culmination of a
35-year-long reproductive rights movement and an inspiring example
of modern grassroots activism. It tells the story of the 'Repeal'
campaign through the lens of the activists who are still fighting
in a movement that is only just beginning.
This book explores the role of Catholic peacebuilding in addressing
the global mining industry. Mining is intimately linked to issues
of conflict, human rights, sustainable development, governance, and
environmental justice. As an institution of significant scope and
scale with a large network of actors at all levels and substantial
theoretical and ethical resources, the Catholic Church is well
positioned to acknowledge the essential role of mining, while
challenging unethical and harmful practices, and promoting integral
peace, development, and ecology. Drawing together theology, ethics,
and praxis, the volume reflects the diversity of Catholic action on
mining and the importance of an integrated approach. It includes
contributions by an international and interdisciplinary range of
scholars and practitioners. They examine Catholic action on mining
in El Salvador, Peru, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the
Congo, and the Philippines. They also address general issues of
corporate social responsibility, human rights, development,
ecology, and peacebuilding. The book will be of interest to
scholars of theology, social ethics, and Catholic studies as well
as those specializing in development, ecology, human rights, and
peace studies.
Originally published in 1951, this volume gives a general survey of
the Golden Age of Spanish mysticism, following this with
translations of extracts from 15 leading authors in this field. The
selections from each author are preceded by details of editions and
studies, thereby making this not only an authoritative study on the
treasures of Spanish mysticism but also a valuable anthology and
starting point for further reading.
From sneaker ads and the "solidarity hijab" to yoga classes and
secular hikes along the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route, the
essential guide to the murky ethics of religious appropriation. We
think we know cultural appropriation when we see it. Blackface or
Native American headdresses as Halloween costumes-these clearly
give offense. But what about Cardi B posing as the Hindu goddess
Durga in a Reebok ad, AA's twelve-step invocation of God, or the
earnest namaste you utter at the end of yoga class? Liz Bucar
unpacks the ethical dilemmas of a messy form of cultural
appropriation: the borrowing of religious doctrines, rituals, and
dress for political, economic, and therapeutic reasons. Does
borrowing from another's religion harm believers? Who can consent
to such borrowings? Bucar sees religion as an especially vexing
arena for appropriation debates because faiths overlap and imitate
each other and because diversity within religious groups scrambles
our sense of who is an insider and who is not. Indeed, if we are to
understand why some appropriations are insulting and others benign,
we have to ask difficult philosophical questions about what
religions really are. Stealing My Religion guides us through three
revealing case studies-the hijab as a feminist signal of Muslim
allyship, a study abroad "pilgrimage" on the Camino de Santiago,
and the commodification of yoga in the West. We see why the Vatican
can't grant Rihanna permission to dress up as the pope, yet it's
still okay to roll out our yoga mats. Reflecting on her own
missteps, Bucar comes to a surprising conclusion: the way to avoid
religious appropriation isn't to borrow less but to borrow more-to
become deeply invested in learning the roots and diverse meanings
of our enthusiasms.
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