Jason K. Duncan
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823225125
- eISBN:
- 9780823236930
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823225125.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter focuses on the political status of New York Catholics in the 1790s. By the turn of the 19th century, two distinct political persuasions were emerging, each ...
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This chapter focuses on the political status of New York Catholics in the 1790s. By the turn of the 19th century, two distinct political persuasions were emerging, each possessing a vision of how the republic should develop. Ordinary people, in addition to developing allegiances to the national parties and their leaders, had forged their own political culture, with its rites and rituals. The place of New York Catholics in this politics was singular. They had emerged from the revolutionary era endowed with new religious freedom and the right to vote, at least for men who met the minimum property requirements. Yet, they were essentially barred from holding state elective office.Less
This chapter focuses on the political status of New York Catholics in the 1790s. By the turn of the 19th century, two distinct political persuasions were emerging, each possessing a vision of how the republic should develop. Ordinary people, in addition to developing allegiances to the national parties and their leaders, had forged their own political culture, with its rites and rituals. The place of New York Catholics in this politics was singular. They had emerged from the revolutionary era endowed with new religious freedom and the right to vote, at least for men who met the minimum property requirements. Yet, they were essentially barred from holding state elective office.
Diane Winston
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190280031
- eISBN:
- 9780190280062
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190280031.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Secular and Catholic media reacted differently in the first decade of the AIDS crisis. These differences are apparent in an examination of reports on two 1987 stories—priests dying from the AIDS ...
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Secular and Catholic media reacted differently in the first decade of the AIDS crisis. These differences are apparent in an examination of reports on two 1987 stories—priests dying from the AIDS virus, and conflict over the US bishops’ pastoral letter on AIDS—from seven different news sources, secular and religious. The secular press used sensation and conflict frames to report the news, reflecting the enduring values (in Herbert Gans’s term) shared by the secular news outlets, which cast the Church as antithetical to American identity. Despite a variation in ideological leaning among the Catholic papers, their theological value system, suggested that the meaning of life and the heart of Catholic identity reside in active compassion. The debate over AIDS offered Catholics two alternatives. While the secular press depicted the choices as liberal or conservative—and implicitly secular (American) or religious (Catholic)—the sectarian press presented them as two theological orientations and options for loving service.Less
Secular and Catholic media reacted differently in the first decade of the AIDS crisis. These differences are apparent in an examination of reports on two 1987 stories—priests dying from the AIDS virus, and conflict over the US bishops’ pastoral letter on AIDS—from seven different news sources, secular and religious. The secular press used sensation and conflict frames to report the news, reflecting the enduring values (in Herbert Gans’s term) shared by the secular news outlets, which cast the Church as antithetical to American identity. Despite a variation in ideological leaning among the Catholic papers, their theological value system, suggested that the meaning of life and the heart of Catholic identity reside in active compassion. The debate over AIDS offered Catholics two alternatives. While the secular press depicted the choices as liberal or conservative—and implicitly secular (American) or religious (Catholic)—the sectarian press presented them as two theological orientations and options for loving service.
