John J. Coughlin
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195372977
- eISBN:
- 9780199871667
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372977.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law
This chapter addresses the canonical consequences of antinomianism and legalism. These include injury to the victims, the alleged link between priesthood and sexual deviancy, the disruption of the ...
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This chapter addresses the canonical consequences of antinomianism and legalism. These include injury to the victims, the alleged link between priesthood and sexual deviancy, the disruption of the unity of law and theology, and the diminishment of canon law as law properly understood.Less
This chapter addresses the canonical consequences of antinomianism and legalism. These include injury to the victims, the alleged link between priesthood and sexual deviancy, the disruption of the unity of law and theology, and the diminishment of canon law as law properly understood.
John J. Coughlin
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195372977
- eISBN:
- 9780199871667
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372977.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law
This chapter consists of two major parts. The first reviews the canonical provisions that were in place to respond to allegations of sexual abuse and to impose the penalty of dismissal from the ...
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This chapter consists of two major parts. The first reviews the canonical provisions that were in place to respond to allegations of sexual abuse and to impose the penalty of dismissal from the clerical state on a guilty priest. It also presents statistical information about the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests in the United States from 1950 until 2006. In light of the information, it argues that canonical action could have been taken against guilty priests, especially those who were serial child abusers. The second part offers an explanation for the failure of church authorities to utilize canon law in dealing with cases of sexual abuse. After reviewing some examples of antinomianism and legalism on the part of 19th-century bishops in the United States, it discusses how these approaches led to the failure of canon law in dealing with cases of clergy sexual abuse. It suggests that, when a psychological model replaced the rule of canon law, the conditions were set for great harm to individuals and the common good.Less
This chapter consists of two major parts. The first reviews the canonical provisions that were in place to respond to allegations of sexual abuse and to impose the penalty of dismissal from the clerical state on a guilty priest. It also presents statistical information about the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests in the United States from 1950 until 2006. In light of the information, it argues that canonical action could have been taken against guilty priests, especially those who were serial child abusers. The second part offers an explanation for the failure of church authorities to utilize canon law in dealing with cases of sexual abuse. After reviewing some examples of antinomianism and legalism on the part of 19th-century bishops in the United States, it discusses how these approaches led to the failure of canon law in dealing with cases of clergy sexual abuse. It suggests that, when a psychological model replaced the rule of canon law, the conditions were set for great harm to individuals and the common good.
Karin E. Gedge
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780195130201
- eISBN:
- 9780199835157
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195130200.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
At the same time that ministerial misconduct exposed the flaws in separate spheres ideology, the accounts of two dozen clergymen’s trials disclose the ways they worked to repair and reinforce the ...
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At the same time that ministerial misconduct exposed the flaws in separate spheres ideology, the accounts of two dozen clergymen’s trials disclose the ways they worked to repair and reinforce the damaged boundaries. Caught in a disgraceful liaison that threatened a career, ministers usually escaped conviction or severe punishment. In the course of these trials, clergy were rescued from the dangerous domestic sphere and “masculinized,” portrayed as valiant combatants in monumental political or theological battles that secured their positions in the public sphere and acknowledged their value to the church and to society. Only two of these men were Catholic priests, yet most enjoyed a cultural immunity similar to the medieval privilege of “benefit of clergy.” Women, however, were “feminized,” depicted as vulnerable victims in need of the protection of fathers and husbands within the domestic sphere and suffering public ignominy if they strayed beyond it. In short, clergy learned to stay out of the domestic sphere and women to stay in it.Less
At the same time that ministerial misconduct exposed the flaws in separate spheres ideology, the accounts of two dozen clergymen’s trials disclose the ways they worked to repair and reinforce the damaged boundaries. Caught in a disgraceful liaison that threatened a career, ministers usually escaped conviction or severe punishment. In the course of these trials, clergy were rescued from the dangerous domestic sphere and “masculinized,” portrayed as valiant combatants in monumental political or theological battles that secured their positions in the public sphere and acknowledged their value to the church and to society. Only two of these men were Catholic priests, yet most enjoyed a cultural immunity similar to the medieval privilege of “benefit of clergy.” Women, however, were “feminized,” depicted as vulnerable victims in need of the protection of fathers and husbands within the domestic sphere and suffering public ignominy if they strayed beyond it. In short, clergy learned to stay out of the domestic sphere and women to stay in it.
Jeanne L. Gillespie
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195306316
- eISBN:
- 9780199867721
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306316.003.0017
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Mesoamericans celebrated sexuality, which placed them in opposition to Catholic priests. The cultures manifested a connection between abstinence, purity, and uncleanliness caused by excess and ...
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Mesoamericans celebrated sexuality, which placed them in opposition to Catholic priests. The cultures manifested a connection between abstinence, purity, and uncleanliness caused by excess and imbalance due to a lack of sexual moderation.Less
Mesoamericans celebrated sexuality, which placed them in opposition to Catholic priests. The cultures manifested a connection between abstinence, purity, and uncleanliness caused by excess and imbalance due to a lack of sexual moderation.
John R. Dichtl
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813124865
- eISBN:
- 9780813135106
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813124865.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
Two years after the war had ended through the Treaty of Paris and only months after he had been appointed as head of the missions of the United States's Roman Catholic Church, Father John Carroll ...
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Two years after the war had ended through the Treaty of Paris and only months after he had been appointed as head of the missions of the United States's Roman Catholic Church, Father John Carroll described the potential farmlands, the rich forests, and the Mississippi to a European colleague. His friend was asked to convince American Catholics to undergo training overseas then come back home to serve, as there was a critical shortage of clergymen. Aside from how older parishes were rapidly growing, several Catholics were found to be moving towards the west as there may have also been incentives such as liberal land grant offers for Clergymen support. Since Protestants would willingly supply land to attract Roman Catholic priests, these Catholic-Protestant relations proved to have improved during the American Revolution.Less
Two years after the war had ended through the Treaty of Paris and only months after he had been appointed as head of the missions of the United States's Roman Catholic Church, Father John Carroll described the potential farmlands, the rich forests, and the Mississippi to a European colleague. His friend was asked to convince American Catholics to undergo training overseas then come back home to serve, as there was a critical shortage of clergymen. Aside from how older parishes were rapidly growing, several Catholics were found to be moving towards the west as there may have also been incentives such as liberal land grant offers for Clergymen support. Since Protestants would willingly supply land to attract Roman Catholic priests, these Catholic-Protestant relations proved to have improved during the American Revolution.
Edward L. Cleary
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813036083
- eISBN:
- 9780813038285
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813036083.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
When Father Marcelo Rossi became a recognized superstar in Brazilian public life, his various publics were invested in him with many different interests and issues. That a Catholic priest could sing ...
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When Father Marcelo Rossi became a recognized superstar in Brazilian public life, his various publics were invested in him with many different interests and issues. That a Catholic priest could sing well enough to gain popular attention is little more than a trivial celebrity fact, that he would want to sing and dance before hundreds of thousands of participants in Catholic Mass is a mystery that is delved into in this chapter. Without question, Father Marcelo possessed superstar status both among people in the pews and in the wide and vibrant world of Brazilian popular culture. At the end of 2007, he gathered 35 singing performers for an all-day event billed as a Missa/show to be staged at a motor racetrack. In the end, Frei Betto said that Padre Marcelo accomplished what liberation theology could not do: capture the attention of society for Christianity.Less
When Father Marcelo Rossi became a recognized superstar in Brazilian public life, his various publics were invested in him with many different interests and issues. That a Catholic priest could sing well enough to gain popular attention is little more than a trivial celebrity fact, that he would want to sing and dance before hundreds of thousands of participants in Catholic Mass is a mystery that is delved into in this chapter. Without question, Father Marcelo possessed superstar status both among people in the pews and in the wide and vibrant world of Brazilian popular culture. At the end of 2007, he gathered 35 singing performers for an all-day event billed as a Missa/show to be staged at a motor racetrack. In the end, Frei Betto said that Padre Marcelo accomplished what liberation theology could not do: capture the attention of society for Christianity.
James P. McCartin
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780823282760
- eISBN:
- 9780823286263
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823282760.003.0013
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
This chapter focuses on Milwaukee priest James Groppi, who marched alongside local African American children boycotting public schools to protest racial inequality. It reaffirms that deep into the ...
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This chapter focuses on Milwaukee priest James Groppi, who marched alongside local African American children boycotting public schools to protest racial inequality. It reaffirms that deep into the postwar era “integralism—the integration of Christian practice into all activities of one's everyday life—provided the spiritual foundation for Catholic activism.” Integral Catholics heeded the call of American Jesuit Gerald Ellard to “live ... with the life of Christ living within us.” This practice of piety changed politics, and then piety itself was changed via personal experiences of prophetic Catholicism in action. This prophetic mode became Dorothy Day's “radical” daily witness beginning in the 1930s; three decades later it approached normative status among a wide swath of Catholics from all walks of life.Less
This chapter focuses on Milwaukee priest James Groppi, who marched alongside local African American children boycotting public schools to protest racial inequality. It reaffirms that deep into the postwar era “integralism—the integration of Christian practice into all activities of one's everyday life—provided the spiritual foundation for Catholic activism.” Integral Catholics heeded the call of American Jesuit Gerald Ellard to “live ... with the life of Christ living within us.” This practice of piety changed politics, and then piety itself was changed via personal experiences of prophetic Catholicism in action. This prophetic mode became Dorothy Day's “radical” daily witness beginning in the 1930s; three decades later it approached normative status among a wide swath of Catholics from all walks of life.
John Herson
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719090639
- eISBN:
- 9781781708385
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719090639.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter reviews general evidence for the emigration of professional and entrepreneurial Irish. The proportion in Stafford is shown to be in line with that elsewhere. There are four case studies. ...
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This chapter reviews general evidence for the emigration of professional and entrepreneurial Irish. The proportion in Stafford is shown to be in line with that elsewhere. There are four case studies. Hugh Woods Gibson came from an Ulster Presbyterian family. The history of his family shows how Irish Protestants could merge seamlessly into British society. William Clendinnen, a doctor from Co. Wicklow, was Stafford’s first Medical Officer of Health but his family history demonstrates issues of male domination, marital violence and oppositional identity. Finally, the histories of two Irish Catholic priests, Michael O’Sullivan and James O’Hanlon, are explored and issues raised about the role of Irish priests in the English Catholic Church and in relation to the Irish.Less
This chapter reviews general evidence for the emigration of professional and entrepreneurial Irish. The proportion in Stafford is shown to be in line with that elsewhere. There are four case studies. Hugh Woods Gibson came from an Ulster Presbyterian family. The history of his family shows how Irish Protestants could merge seamlessly into British society. William Clendinnen, a doctor from Co. Wicklow, was Stafford’s first Medical Officer of Health but his family history demonstrates issues of male domination, marital violence and oppositional identity. Finally, the histories of two Irish Catholic priests, Michael O’Sullivan and James O’Hanlon, are explored and issues raised about the role of Irish priests in the English Catholic Church and in relation to the Irish.
James T. O'Reilly and Margaret S.P. Chalmers
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199937936
- eISBN:
- 9780199350209
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199937936.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology, Private International Law
Legal disputes over worldwide and U.S. sexual abuse by Catholic priests, and over efforts by Catholic bishops to conceal clerical misconduct, have produced many headlines and public discussion. ...
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Legal disputes over worldwide and U.S. sexual abuse by Catholic priests, and over efforts by Catholic bishops to conceal clerical misconduct, have produced many headlines and public discussion. However, the precise legal issues involved remain a mystery to most observers. In The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses, James T. O‘Reilly and Margaret Poll Chalmers examine the role of canon law in these cases and the interplay between the global church-based law and the laws of individual jurisdictions where criminal actions and lawsuits are brought. Although the principal jurisdiction under consideration will be the United States., the authors examine the jurisprudence and legal theory through a comparative law perspective focusing on other countries in order to render lessons that might be useful in the American context, as countries do vary in their judicial recognition and assimilation. Some countries‘ courts derive from canon law a duty of care as an element in tort law claims, a use of church law that can help plaintiffs as much as clerical defendants. Other jurisdictions block canon law–based evidence in order to preserve separation of church and state. This work analyzes those variations, and includes an extensive discussion of how canon law has been used by civil plaintiffs to establish liability for bishops and dioceses under the respondeat superior theory. It also looks beyond canon law at such issues as immunity from suit for the Vatican (as a sovereign state) and for the pope (as a head of state).Less
Legal disputes over worldwide and U.S. sexual abuse by Catholic priests, and over efforts by Catholic bishops to conceal clerical misconduct, have produced many headlines and public discussion. However, the precise legal issues involved remain a mystery to most observers. In The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses, James T. O‘Reilly and Margaret Poll Chalmers examine the role of canon law in these cases and the interplay between the global church-based law and the laws of individual jurisdictions where criminal actions and lawsuits are brought. Although the principal jurisdiction under consideration will be the United States., the authors examine the jurisprudence and legal theory through a comparative law perspective focusing on other countries in order to render lessons that might be useful in the American context, as countries do vary in their judicial recognition and assimilation. Some countries‘ courts derive from canon law a duty of care as an element in tort law claims, a use of church law that can help plaintiffs as much as clerical defendants. Other jurisdictions block canon law–based evidence in order to preserve separation of church and state. This work analyzes those variations, and includes an extensive discussion of how canon law has been used by civil plaintiffs to establish liability for bishops and dioceses under the respondeat superior theory. It also looks beyond canon law at such issues as immunity from suit for the Vatican (as a sovereign state) and for the pope (as a head of state).
James Mace Ward
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801449888
- eISBN:
- 9780801468131
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801449888.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This book offers a biography of the Catholic priest and Slovak nationalist Jozef Tiso (1887–1947). The first president of an independent Slovakia, established as a satellite of Nazi Germany, Tiso was ...
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This book offers a biography of the Catholic priest and Slovak nationalist Jozef Tiso (1887–1947). The first president of an independent Slovakia, established as a satellite of Nazi Germany, Tiso was ultimately hanged for treason and (in effect) crimes against humanity by a postwar reunified Czechoslovakia. The book portrays Tiso as a devoutly religious man who came to privilege the maintenance of a Slovak state over all other concerns, helping thus to condemn Slovak Jewry to destruction. He is portrayed as a man of principle and a victim of international circumstances. This potent mix, combined with an almost epic ability to deny the consequences of his own actions, ultimately led to Tiso's undoing. Tiso began his career as a fervent priest seeking to defend the Church and pursue social justice within the Kingdom of Hungary. With the breakup of Austria-Hungary in 1918 and the creation of a Czechoslovak Republic, these missions then fused with a parochial Slovak nationalist agenda, a complex process that is the core narrative of the book. The book presents the strongest case yet for Tiso's heavy responsibility in the Holocaust. To this day memories of Tiso divide opinion within Slovakia, burdening the country's efforts to come to terms with its own history. Tiso's life not only illuminates the history of a small state but also supplies a missing piece of the larger puzzle that was interwar and wartime Europe.Less
This book offers a biography of the Catholic priest and Slovak nationalist Jozef Tiso (1887–1947). The first president of an independent Slovakia, established as a satellite of Nazi Germany, Tiso was ultimately hanged for treason and (in effect) crimes against humanity by a postwar reunified Czechoslovakia. The book portrays Tiso as a devoutly religious man who came to privilege the maintenance of a Slovak state over all other concerns, helping thus to condemn Slovak Jewry to destruction. He is portrayed as a man of principle and a victim of international circumstances. This potent mix, combined with an almost epic ability to deny the consequences of his own actions, ultimately led to Tiso's undoing. Tiso began his career as a fervent priest seeking to defend the Church and pursue social justice within the Kingdom of Hungary. With the breakup of Austria-Hungary in 1918 and the creation of a Czechoslovak Republic, these missions then fused with a parochial Slovak nationalist agenda, a complex process that is the core narrative of the book. The book presents the strongest case yet for Tiso's heavy responsibility in the Holocaust. To this day memories of Tiso divide opinion within Slovakia, burdening the country's efforts to come to terms with its own history. Tiso's life not only illuminates the history of a small state but also supplies a missing piece of the larger puzzle that was interwar and wartime Europe.
Terry Rey
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- June 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190625849
- eISBN:
- 9780190625870
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190625849.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Entitled “Abbé Ouvière,” Chapter 3 seeks to answer three questions: (1) Who was Abbé Ouvière? (2) Why did he wind up in Saint-Domingue? (3) How and why did he become a principal in the early stage of ...
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Entitled “Abbé Ouvière,” Chapter 3 seeks to answer three questions: (1) Who was Abbé Ouvière? (2) Why did he wind up in Saint-Domingue? (3) How and why did he become a principal in the early stage of the Haitian Revolution? Born into a family of meager means in Aix-en-Provence in 1762, Ouvière received a benefice as an adolescent by which he became an abbé and a secular priest. This afforded him an excellent education in both theology and medicine, enabling Ouvière to involve himself politically, as a Catholic priest, in the Haitian Revolution, and culturally, as a scientist and physician, in the intellectual life of early Republican America. The chapter reveals the means by which Abbé Ouvière would become a trusted adviser to the free colored Confederate Army, which was preparing to wage war to secure the full civil rights of free blacks and mulattoes as French citizens.Less
Entitled “Abbé Ouvière,” Chapter 3 seeks to answer three questions: (1) Who was Abbé Ouvière? (2) Why did he wind up in Saint-Domingue? (3) How and why did he become a principal in the early stage of the Haitian Revolution? Born into a family of meager means in Aix-en-Provence in 1762, Ouvière received a benefice as an adolescent by which he became an abbé and a secular priest. This afforded him an excellent education in both theology and medicine, enabling Ouvière to involve himself politically, as a Catholic priest, in the Haitian Revolution, and culturally, as a scientist and physician, in the intellectual life of early Republican America. The chapter reveals the means by which Abbé Ouvière would become a trusted adviser to the free colored Confederate Army, which was preparing to wage war to secure the full civil rights of free blacks and mulattoes as French citizens.
Peter Buse, Núria Triana Toribio, and Andy Willis
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719071362
- eISBN:
- 9781781700952
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719071362.003.0016
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
El día de la bestia, released in 1995, was Álex de la Iglesia's second feature-length film, and marked the beginning of the director's association with the producer Andrés Vicente Gómez and his ...
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El día de la bestia, released in 1995, was Álex de la Iglesia's second feature-length film, and marked the beginning of the director's association with the producer Andrés Vicente Gómez and his Lolafilms organisation. It was both a commercial and critical success in Spain. The plot of El día de la bestia concerns a Basque Catholic priest, Father Ángel Berriartúa, who, in his research role at the University of Deusto, discovers that the predictions of the apocalypse by St John have been miscalculated. El día de la bestia is probably still de la Iglesia's best-known film. This is certainly the case internationally, where it was critically well received. El día de la bestia also appeared at a number of film festivals, such as the Brussels International Festival Fantastic Film in 1996, where it was awarded the prestigious Méliès d' or for Best European Fantastic Film. Academic criticism has been more ambivalent about it than reviews in the press.Less
El día de la bestia, released in 1995, was Álex de la Iglesia's second feature-length film, and marked the beginning of the director's association with the producer Andrés Vicente Gómez and his Lolafilms organisation. It was both a commercial and critical success in Spain. The plot of El día de la bestia concerns a Basque Catholic priest, Father Ángel Berriartúa, who, in his research role at the University of Deusto, discovers that the predictions of the apocalypse by St John have been miscalculated. El día de la bestia is probably still de la Iglesia's best-known film. This is certainly the case internationally, where it was critically well received. El día de la bestia also appeared at a number of film festivals, such as the Brussels International Festival Fantastic Film in 1996, where it was awarded the prestigious Méliès d' or for Best European Fantastic Film. Academic criticism has been more ambivalent about it than reviews in the press.
David C. Steinmetz
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199768936
- eISBN:
- 9780190258276
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199768936.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
This chapter explores the issues of marriage and celibacy. It presents the following arguments: that the Protestant churches were not entirely wrongheaded to accept celibacy as a gift and resist it ...
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This chapter explores the issues of marriage and celibacy. It presents the following arguments: that the Protestant churches were not entirely wrongheaded to accept celibacy as a gift and resist it as a law; that the Protestant emphasis on the interdependence of men and women in marriage and the common calling of men and women to seek the will of God in mutual relationship is an important corrective to theologies that subordinate women to men, on the one hand, or that dispense with the relationship between male and female as trivial, on the other hand; that the Reformation did not sanction the ordination of women to the public ministry of Word and sacrament; and that a Christian is a female is no bar to valid ordination in the church.Less
This chapter explores the issues of marriage and celibacy. It presents the following arguments: that the Protestant churches were not entirely wrongheaded to accept celibacy as a gift and resist it as a law; that the Protestant emphasis on the interdependence of men and women in marriage and the common calling of men and women to seek the will of God in mutual relationship is an important corrective to theologies that subordinate women to men, on the one hand, or that dispense with the relationship between male and female as trivial, on the other hand; that the Reformation did not sanction the ordination of women to the public ministry of Word and sacrament; and that a Christian is a female is no bar to valid ordination in the church.
Stanisław Musiał and Gwido Zlatkes
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781874774600
- eISBN:
- 9781800340701
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781874774600.003.0022
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter investigates how Poles react to the Revd Henryk Jankowski's antisemitic statements. If in any Western country, a cleric (a Catholic priest as well known as the Revd Jankowski) presented ...
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This chapter investigates how Poles react to the Revd Henryk Jankowski's antisemitic statements. If in any Western country, a cleric (a Catholic priest as well known as the Revd Jankowski) presented such antisemitic opinions, many people of good will would protest in the streets. In Poland, it is still impossible. Though in Polish society, sensitivity and solidarity seem to be awakening today, they express themselves in only one context: where an exceptionally hideous murder has been committed. The chapter argues that in Poland, it will be a long time before antisemitic excesses or statements will get people moving. After all that happened in the land at the hands of the Nazis, there is still no social awareness that antisemitism is deadly by its nature, and in every form, even if often not directly or immediately. In this regard, the past is taking its toll: not long ago the subject of antisemitism was taboo, and to be a patriot meant, in the interpretation of the ruling Communist Party, to be anti-Zionist, which in practice equalled being an antisemite.Less
This chapter investigates how Poles react to the Revd Henryk Jankowski's antisemitic statements. If in any Western country, a cleric (a Catholic priest as well known as the Revd Jankowski) presented such antisemitic opinions, many people of good will would protest in the streets. In Poland, it is still impossible. Though in Polish society, sensitivity and solidarity seem to be awakening today, they express themselves in only one context: where an exceptionally hideous murder has been committed. The chapter argues that in Poland, it will be a long time before antisemitic excesses or statements will get people moving. After all that happened in the land at the hands of the Nazis, there is still no social awareness that antisemitism is deadly by its nature, and in every form, even if often not directly or immediately. In this regard, the past is taking its toll: not long ago the subject of antisemitism was taboo, and to be a patriot meant, in the interpretation of the ruling Communist Party, to be anti-Zionist, which in practice equalled being an antisemite.
Kristin C. Bloomer
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- December 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190615093
- eISBN:
- 9780190615123
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190615093.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, World Religions, History of Christianity
This chapter introduces Rosalind, her family, and the Jecintho Prayer House in Chennai. It tells the story of how Alex, her cousin, first came to be healed and possessed by Mary (Mātā). The accounts ...
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This chapter introduces Rosalind, her family, and the Jecintho Prayer House in Chennai. It tells the story of how Alex, her cousin, first came to be healed and possessed by Mary (Mātā). The accounts of possession move to Rosalind, and Mary reveals her true name as Jecintho (Queen of Roses). The family founds a prayer house, and a following grows. The chapter offers an account of members’ narratives. It also describes the author’s first visit to the prayer house and her personal responses to being prayed over and investigates what it means to be a participant-observer, a “witness.” It begins to analyze the form of agency involved in possession practices. Roman Catholic priests take note of the group with responses ranging the spectrum.Less
This chapter introduces Rosalind, her family, and the Jecintho Prayer House in Chennai. It tells the story of how Alex, her cousin, first came to be healed and possessed by Mary (Mātā). The accounts of possession move to Rosalind, and Mary reveals her true name as Jecintho (Queen of Roses). The family founds a prayer house, and a following grows. The chapter offers an account of members’ narratives. It also describes the author’s first visit to the prayer house and her personal responses to being prayed over and investigates what it means to be a participant-observer, a “witness.” It begins to analyze the form of agency involved in possession practices. Roman Catholic priests take note of the group with responses ranging the spectrum.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846314742
- eISBN:
- 9781846316043
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Discontinued
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846314742.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter begins with a discussion of the arrival of Irish migrants in Birmingham in the early 1800s. It then describes the successful campaign for Catholic emancipation in Ireland led by lawyer ...
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This chapter begins with a discussion of the arrival of Irish migrants in Birmingham in the early 1800s. It then describes the successful campaign for Catholic emancipation in Ireland led by lawyer Daniel O'Connell. At this time, Birmingham had no MP of its own, and many in the town felt that this situation paralleled the lack of representation had encouraged Ireland's Catholics to join O'Connell's crusade. Local reform leaders set up their own organization called the Birmingham Political Union, and convinced Birmingham cleric Father Thomas Michael McDonnell to use his friendship with O'Connell to help with the region's new political enterprise. In October 1831, the Birmingham Political Union organized probably the largest political gathering ever seen in Britain, in an effort to persuade the House of Lords to pass electoral reform measures. When the meeting failed to move the peers in London, Father McDonnell next invited O'Connell himself to Birmingham.Less
This chapter begins with a discussion of the arrival of Irish migrants in Birmingham in the early 1800s. It then describes the successful campaign for Catholic emancipation in Ireland led by lawyer Daniel O'Connell. At this time, Birmingham had no MP of its own, and many in the town felt that this situation paralleled the lack of representation had encouraged Ireland's Catholics to join O'Connell's crusade. Local reform leaders set up their own organization called the Birmingham Political Union, and convinced Birmingham cleric Father Thomas Michael McDonnell to use his friendship with O'Connell to help with the region's new political enterprise. In October 1831, the Birmingham Political Union organized probably the largest political gathering ever seen in Britain, in an effort to persuade the House of Lords to pass electoral reform measures. When the meeting failed to move the peers in London, Father McDonnell next invited O'Connell himself to Birmingham.
Mary Johnson, Mary L. Gautier, Patricia Wittberg, and Thu T. Do
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- February 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190933098
- eISBN:
- 9780190933128
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190933098.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter traces Catholic international sisters in the history of the United States, from the eighteenth century to the present time. The chapter discusses the primarily European origin of many ...
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This chapter traces Catholic international sisters in the history of the United States, from the eighteenth century to the present time. The chapter discusses the primarily European origin of many sisters and religious institutes in the first three centuries of sisters’ immigration, and the Asian, African, and Latin American origin of international sisters’ migration to the United States today. It describes the invitations from some bishops and priests in the United States to some religious institutes, and the sisters’ frequent accompaniment of co-ethnics in this country. It discusses the many educational and healthcare institutions the sisters built in this country, and the ministries they also conducted.Less
This chapter traces Catholic international sisters in the history of the United States, from the eighteenth century to the present time. The chapter discusses the primarily European origin of many sisters and religious institutes in the first three centuries of sisters’ immigration, and the Asian, African, and Latin American origin of international sisters’ migration to the United States today. It describes the invitations from some bishops and priests in the United States to some religious institutes, and the sisters’ frequent accompaniment of co-ethnics in this country. It discusses the many educational and healthcare institutions the sisters built in this country, and the ministries they also conducted.