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American Catholics and Civic Engagement - A Distinctive Voice (Hardcover)
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American Catholics and Civic Engagement - A Distinctive Voice (Hardcover)
Series: American Catholics in the Public Square
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Sheed & Ward, in partnership with the Commonweal Foundation and
with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, 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. Participants in
the Commonweal colloquia and the joint meetings-leading Catholic
scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders,
novelists and poets, church administrators and lobbyists,
activists, policy makers and politicians-produced approximately
forty-five essays presented at ten meetings that brought together
over two hundred and fifty participants. The two volumes in the
American Catholics in the Public Square Series address many of the
most critical issues now facing the Catholic Church in the United
States by drawing from the four goals of the colloquia-to identify,
assess, and critique the distinctive elements in Catholicism's
approach to civic life; to generate concrete analyses and
recommendations for strengthening Catholic civic engagement; to
encompass a broad spectrum of political and social views of
Catholics to encourage dialogue between Catholic leaders, religious
and secular media, and political thinkers; to reexamine the
long-standing Catholic belief in the obligation to promote the
common good and to clarify how Catholics may work better with those
holding other religious or philosophical convictions toward
revitalizing both the religious environment and civic participation
in the American republic. This first volume, American Catholics and
Civic Engagement: A Distinctive Voice, includes a general
introduction by Peter Steinfels and is structured in four parts,
each of which include a brief overview. Part One, Catholic Thought
in the American Context, explore the fundamental concepts that
underlie Catholic social thought and their relevance to American
public debate and public policy-the intellectual tools with which
Catholics have often participated in the public square. Part Two,
Catholic Institutions in the American Public Square, reveals the
Church's vast presence in the American public square-from the
church steeples that dot urban landscapes to primary and secondary
schools, colleges and universities, hospitals, clinics and nursing
homes, social service centers, orphanages, and shelters-and
provides a detailed analysis of the place of the parish in the
public square, the activities of the bishops' conferences in New
York, Wisconsin, and the California, and the challenges facing
Catholic health care providers. Part Three, Catholics in the Public
Square: Autobiographies, includes the personal stories of
politicians, journalists, lawyers, business executives, and labor
leaders who describe how their faith shaped and is shaped by their
work. Part Four, Catholics in the Voting Booth, relies on data from
two wide-ranging surveys of how Catholics vote and assesses the
impact on Catholic voters of the Catholic social tradition, of
sermons, of parish community and sacramental life, and of papal and
episcopal statements.
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