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The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path.
In no time period has this been more true than over the last two
centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the
Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and concluding with
present-day crises, John T. McGreevy chronicles the dramatic
upheavals and internal divisions shaping the most multicultural,
multilingual, and global institution in the world. Through powerful
individual stories and sweeping birds-eye views, Catholicism
provides a mesmerising assessment of the Church’s complex role in
modern history: both shaper and follower of the politics of nation
states, both conservator of hierarchies and evangeliser of
egalitarianism. McGreevy documents the hopes and ambitions of
European missionaries building churches and schools in all corners
of the world, African Catholics fighting for political (and
religious) independence, Latin American Catholics attracted to a
theology of liberation, and Polish and South Korean Catholics
demanding democratic governments. He includes a vast cast of
riveting characters, known and unknown, including the Mexican
revolutionary Fr. Servando Teresa de Mier; Daniel O’Connell, hero
of Irish emancipation; Sr. Josephine Bakhita, a formerly enslaved
Sudanese nun; Chinese statesman Ma Xiaobang; French philosopher and
reformer Jacques Maritain; German Jewish philosopher and convert,
Edith Stein; John Paul II, Polish pope and opponent of communism;
Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian founder of liberation theology; and
French American patron of modern art, Dominique de Menil.
Throughout this essential volume, McGreevy details currents of
reform within the Church as well as movements protective of
traditional customs and beliefs. Conflicts with political leaders
and a devotional revival in the nineteenth century, the experiences
of decolonisation after World War II and the Second Vatican Council
in the twentieth century and the trauma of clerical sexual abuse in
the twenty-first all demonstrate how religion shapes our modern
world. Finally, McGreevy addresses the challenges faced by Pope
Francis as he struggles to unite the over one billion members of
the world’s largest religious community.
In dramatic stories and sweeping panoramas, distinguished historian
John T. McGreevy tells the mesmerising story of a Church torn
between the forces of reform and reaction for the past 250 years.
Anti-monarchist French clerics celebrated the Revolution, but the
murder of priests and destruction of churches in the Terror
galvanised a powerful conservative reaction that reverberates to
this day. Missionaries around the world greatly expanded the
Church's influence while bringing new tensions between a culturally
diverse syncretism and the ultimate authority of Rome. The
aspirations of the faithful for justice in this world-African
Catholics fighting for independence, Latin Americans developing a
theology of liberation, Polish and South Korean Catholics demanding
democratic governments-challenged the politically cautious. The
cataclysms of the Second World War, decolonisation, the Second
Vatican Council and clerical sexual abuse have each remade the
Church, leaving Pope Francis with the superhuman task of charting a
path for over one billion Catholics worldwide.
At the start of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits seemed fated
for oblivion. Dissolved as a religious order in 1773 by one pope,
they were restored in 1814 by another, but with only six hundred
aged members. Yet a century later, the Jesuits numbered seventeen
thousand men and were at the vanguard of the Catholic Church's
expansion around the world. In the United States especially,
foreign-born Jesuits built universities and schools, aided Catholic
immigrants, and served as missionaries. This book traces this
nineteenth-century resurgence, showing how Jesuits nurtured a
Catholic modernity through a disciplined counterculture of
parishes, schools, and associations. Drawing on archival materials
from three continents, American Jesuits and the World tracks
Jesuits who left Europe for America and Jesuits who left the United
States for missionary ventures across the Pacific. Each chapter
tells the story of a revealing or controversial event, including
the tarring and feathering of an exiled Swiss Jesuit in Maine, the
efforts of French Jesuits in Louisiana to obtain Vatican approval
of a miraculous healing, and the educational efforts of American
Jesuits in Manila. These stories place the Jesuits at the center of
the worldwide clash between Catholics and liberal nationalists, and
reveal how the Jesuits not only revived their own order but made
modern Catholicism more global. The result is a major contribution
to modern global history and an invaluable examination of the
meaning of religious liberty in a pluralistic age.
How American Jesuits helped forge modern Catholicism around the
world At the start of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits seemed
fated for oblivion. Dissolved as a religious order in 1773 by one
pope, they were restored in 1814 by another, but with only six
hundred aged members. Yet a century later, the Jesuits numbered
seventeen thousand men and were at the vanguard of the Catholic
Church's expansion around the world. This book traces this
nineteenth-century resurgence, showing how Jesuits nurtured a
Catholic modernity through a disciplined counterculture of
parishes, schools, and associations. Drawing on archival materials
from three continents, American Jesuits and the World tracks
Jesuits who left Europe for America and Jesuits who left the United
States for missionary ventures across the Pacific. Each chapter
tells the story of a revealing or controversial event, including
the tarring and feathering of an exiled Swiss Jesuit in Maine, the
efforts of French Jesuits in Louisiana to obtain Vatican approval
of a miraculous healing, and the educational efforts of American
Jesuits in Manila. These stories reveal how the Jesuits not only
revived their own order but made modern Catholicism more global.
The result is a major contribution to modern global history and an
invaluable examination of the meaning of religious liberty in a
pluralistic age.
This volume chronicles the history of Catholic parishes in such
major cities as Boston, Chicago, Detriot, New York and
Philadelphia, linking their unique place in the urban landscape to
the course of 20th-century American race relations. In portraits of
parish life, the book examines the contacts and conflicts between
Euro-American Catholics and their African-American neighbours. By
tracing the transformation of a church, its people and the nation,
the book illuminates the enormous impact of religious culture on
modern American society.
The Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, is the most
successful and enduring global missionary enterprise in history.
Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Jesuit order has preached
the Gospel, managed a vast educational network, and shaped the
Catholic Church, society, and politics in all corners of the earth.
Rather than offering a a global history of the Jesuits or a linear
narrative of globalization, Thomas Banchoff and Jose Casanova have
assembled a multidisciplinary group of leading experts to explore
what we can learn from the historical and contemporary experience
of the Society of Jesus -- what do the Jesuits tell us about
globalization and what can globalization tell us about the Jesuits?
Contributors include comparative theologian Francis X. Clooney, SJ,
historian John W. O'Malley, SJ, Brazilian theologian Maria Clara
Lucchetti Bingemer, and ethicist David Hollenbach, SJ. They focus
on three critical themes -- global mission, education, and justice
-- to examine the historical legacies and contemporary challenges.
Their insights contribute to a more critical and reflexive
understanding of both the Jesuits' history and of our contemporary
human global condition.
The Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, is the most
successful and enduring global missionary enterprise in history.
Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Jesuit order has preached
the Gospel, managed a vast educational network, and shaped the
Catholic Church, society, and politics in all corners of the earth.
Rather than offering a a global history of the Jesuits or a linear
narrative of globalization, Thomas Banchoff and Jose Casanova have
assembled a multidisciplinary group of leading experts to explore
what we can learn from the historical and contemporary experience
of the Society of Jesus -- what do the Jesuits tell us about
globalization and what can globalization tell us about the Jesuits?
Contributors include comparative theologian Francis X. Clooney, SJ,
historian John W. O'Malley, SJ, Brazilian theologian Maria Clara
Lucchetti Bingemer, and ethicist David Hollenbach, SJ. They focus
on three critical themes -- global mission, education, and justice
-- to examine the historical legacies and contemporary challenges.
Their insights contribute to a more critical and reflexive
understanding of both the Jesuits' history and of our contemporary
human global condition.
For two centuries, Catholicism has played a profound and largely
unexamined role in America's political and intellectual life.
Emphasizing the communal over the individual, protections for
workers and the poor over market freedoms, and faith in eternal
verities over pragmatic compromises, the Catholic worldview has
been a constant foil to liberalism. "Catholicism and American
Freedom" is a groundbreaking tale of strange bedfellows and bitter
conflicts over issues such as slavery, public education, economic
reform, the movies, contraception, and abortion. It is an
international story, as both liberals and conservatives were
influenced by ideas and events abroad, from the 1848 revolutions to
the rise of Fascism and the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, to
papal encyclicals and the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s; and
by the people, from scholarly Jesuits to working class Catholics,
who immigrated from Europe and Latin America. McGreevy reveals how
the individualist, and often vehemently anti-Catholic, inclinations
of Protestant intellectuals shaped the debates over slavery and how
Catholics, although they were the first to acknowledge the moral
equality of black people and disavowed segregation of churches,
even in the South, still had difficulty arguing against the
hierarchy and tradition represented by slavery. He sheds light on
the unsung heroes of American history like Orestes Browson, editor
of "Brownson's Quarterly Review," who suffered the disdain of
abolitionists for being a Catholic, and the antagonism of
conservative Catholics for being an abolitionist; and later heroes
like Jacques Maritain and John Courtney Murray, who fought to
modernize the Church, increased attention to human rights, and
urged the Church "to adapt herself vitally . . . to what is valid
in American democratic development." Putting recent scandals in the
Church and the media's response in a much larger context, this
stimulating history is a model of nuanced scholarship and
provocative reading."
Steeples topped by crosses still dominate neighbourhood skylines in
many American cities, silent markers of local worlds rarely
examined by historians. In this study, John McGreevy chronicles the
world of Catholic parishes - and connects their place in urban
history to the course of American race relations in the 20th
century. In portraits of parish life in Boston, Chicago, New York,
Philadelphia and other cities, McGreevy examines the contacts and
conflicts between Euro-American Catholics and their
African-American neighbours. He demonstrates how the territorial
nature of the parish - more bound by geography than Protestant or
Jewish congregations - kept Catholics in their neighbourhoods, and
how this commitment to place complicated efforts to integrate urban
neighbourhoods. He also shows how the church responded to the
growing number of African-American parishioners by condemning
racism, and how this teaching was received in communities rocked by
racial strife. Taking the story through the Second Vatican Council
and the civil rights movement of the 1960s, McGreevy demonstrates
how debates about community and racial justice reshaped the
character of American Catholicism. Tracing the transformation of a
church, its people, and the nation over the course of nearly a
century, this work illuminates the impact of religious culture on
the course of modern American history.
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