Peter Marshall
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198204480
- eISBN:
- 9780191676307
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198204480.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, History of Religion
The call to celibacy clearly marks out parish priests from laymen. The ideal of a celibate ministry was as old as Christianity itself, and had found forceful advocates among many of the church ...
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The call to celibacy clearly marks out parish priests from laymen. The ideal of a celibate ministry was as old as Christianity itself, and had found forceful advocates among many of the church fathers. In this chapter, the author illustrates how widespread concern about suspected immorality among the parish clergy undermined their credibility as a Christian exemplar and created hostilities among English men. In addition, several social repercussions created on the concern of moral lapses among priests are explored. Also, as this chapter suggests, laypeople's concern about clerical celibacy is oftentimes deeply rooted on the issue of their salvation especially for those who considered the mass as an effusion of divine grace, and a personal encounter with Christ. Debates on the lawfulness of priestly marriage are also demonstrated in this chapter.Less
The call to celibacy clearly marks out parish priests from laymen. The ideal of a celibate ministry was as old as Christianity itself, and had found forceful advocates among many of the church fathers. In this chapter, the author illustrates how widespread concern about suspected immorality among the parish clergy undermined their credibility as a Christian exemplar and created hostilities among English men. In addition, several social repercussions created on the concern of moral lapses among priests are explored. Also, as this chapter suggests, laypeople's concern about clerical celibacy is oftentimes deeply rooted on the issue of their salvation especially for those who considered the mass as an effusion of divine grace, and a personal encounter with Christ. Debates on the lawfulness of priestly marriage are also demonstrated in this chapter.
Peter Biller
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199265596
- eISBN:
- 9780191699085
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199265596.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History, History of Ideas
This chapter reviews medieval texts which are traces of priests dealing with ordinary people, looking at some examples from three periods, around 900, 1200, and 1300. It covers the Two books on ...
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This chapter reviews medieval texts which are traces of priests dealing with ordinary people, looking at some examples from three periods, around 900, 1200, and 1300. It covers the Two books on synodal cases and ecclesiastical disciplines written in 906 by a Rhinelander, Regino of Prüm, and pastoral texts.Less
This chapter reviews medieval texts which are traces of priests dealing with ordinary people, looking at some examples from three periods, around 900, 1200, and 1300. It covers the Two books on synodal cases and ecclesiastical disciplines written in 906 by a Rhinelander, Regino of Prüm, and pastoral texts.
Patricia Londoño-Vega
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199249534
- eISBN:
- 9780191719318
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199249534.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter begins by discussing that the number, variety, and importance of religious associations active in Antioquia steadily increased between 1850 to 1930. It explains that these associations ...
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This chapter begins by discussing that the number, variety, and importance of religious associations active in Antioquia steadily increased between 1850 to 1930. It explains that these associations were promoted mainly by parish priests and by the Jesuits, and to a lesser extent by the other congregations and the laity. It mentions some of the goals performed by these religious associations: caring for spiritual salvation of deceased brothers, honouring a particular saint, disseminating Catholic doctrine, sponsoring of charities. It notes that the peak of intense activity of religious organisations was during the 1970s. It also describes the development and achievements of the main religious organisations, following a chronological sequence according to the date of their foundation.Less
This chapter begins by discussing that the number, variety, and importance of religious associations active in Antioquia steadily increased between 1850 to 1930. It explains that these associations were promoted mainly by parish priests and by the Jesuits, and to a lesser extent by the other congregations and the laity. It mentions some of the goals performed by these religious associations: caring for spiritual salvation of deceased brothers, honouring a particular saint, disseminating Catholic doctrine, sponsoring of charities. It notes that the peak of intense activity of religious organisations was during the 1970s. It also describes the development and achievements of the main religious organisations, following a chronological sequence according to the date of their foundation.
Graham Neville
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198269779
- eISBN:
- 9780191683794
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198269779.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
This chapter describes Edward Hicks's work as a parish priest as it related to his belief that his social and political convictions arose, no less than his pastoral ministry, from his understanding ...
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This chapter describes Edward Hicks's work as a parish priest as it related to his belief that his social and political convictions arose, no less than his pastoral ministry, from his understanding of the gospel. It observes that the peculiar conditions of the appointment of residentiary canons at Manchester, imposing heavy parochial responsibilities on those who were also responsible for the cathedral, correspond with the two aspects of Hicks's understanding of the Christian faith. It observes that it demanded an unsparing personal ministry, together with responsibility in a democratic society for the conditions of communal life, and the political decisions which Hicks's believed to be right did not arise from theoretical considerations but rather they were specifically the consequences of his experience of the miseries of the poor in his parishes. It discusses Hicks's appointment to residentiary canonry, and the incumbency of St Philip's, Salford — one of the most demanding parishes with a population of over 10,000.Less
This chapter describes Edward Hicks's work as a parish priest as it related to his belief that his social and political convictions arose, no less than his pastoral ministry, from his understanding of the gospel. It observes that the peculiar conditions of the appointment of residentiary canons at Manchester, imposing heavy parochial responsibilities on those who were also responsible for the cathedral, correspond with the two aspects of Hicks's understanding of the Christian faith. It observes that it demanded an unsparing personal ministry, together with responsibility in a democratic society for the conditions of communal life, and the political decisions which Hicks's believed to be right did not arise from theoretical considerations but rather they were specifically the consequences of his experience of the miseries of the poor in his parishes. It discusses Hicks's appointment to residentiary canonry, and the incumbency of St Philip's, Salford — one of the most demanding parishes with a population of over 10,000.
Michelle Armstrong-Partida
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501707735
- eISBN:
- 9781501707827
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501707735.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Two hundred years after canon law prohibited clerical marriage, parish priests in the late medieval period continued to form unions with women that were marriage all but in name. This book uses ...
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Two hundred years after canon law prohibited clerical marriage, parish priests in the late medieval period continued to form unions with women that were marriage all but in name. This book uses evidence from archives in four Catalan dioceses to show that maintaining a family with a domestic partner was not only a custom entrenched in Catalan clerical culture but also an essential component of priestly masculine identity, one that extended to the carrying of weapons and use of violence to resolve disputes and seek revenge, to intimidate other men, and to maintain their status and authority in the community. From unpublished episcopal visitation records and internal diocesan documents, the book reconstructs the personal lives and careers of Catalan parish priests to better understand the professional identity and masculinity of churchmen who made up the proletariat of the largest institution across Europe. These untapped sources reveal the extent to which parish clergy were embedded in their communities, particularly their kinship ties to villagers and their often contentious interactions with male parishioners and clerical colleagues. The book highlights a clerical culture that embraced violence and illuminates how the parish church could become a battleground in which rivalries among clerics took place and young clerics learned from senior clergymen to meld the lay masculine ideals that were a part of their everyday culture with the privilege and authority of their profession.Less
Two hundred years after canon law prohibited clerical marriage, parish priests in the late medieval period continued to form unions with women that were marriage all but in name. This book uses evidence from archives in four Catalan dioceses to show that maintaining a family with a domestic partner was not only a custom entrenched in Catalan clerical culture but also an essential component of priestly masculine identity, one that extended to the carrying of weapons and use of violence to resolve disputes and seek revenge, to intimidate other men, and to maintain their status and authority in the community. From unpublished episcopal visitation records and internal diocesan documents, the book reconstructs the personal lives and careers of Catalan parish priests to better understand the professional identity and masculinity of churchmen who made up the proletariat of the largest institution across Europe. These untapped sources reveal the extent to which parish clergy were embedded in their communities, particularly their kinship ties to villagers and their often contentious interactions with male parishioners and clerical colleagues. The book highlights a clerical culture that embraced violence and illuminates how the parish church could become a battleground in which rivalries among clerics took place and young clerics learned from senior clergymen to meld the lay masculine ideals that were a part of their everyday culture with the privilege and authority of their profession.
Joseph Bergin
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300150988
- eISBN:
- 9780300161069
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300150988.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
This chapter discusses the problems that arise in the effort to transform the intricate layering of France's secular clergy, which resulted partly from their differing social backgrounds and, partly, ...
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This chapter discusses the problems that arise in the effort to transform the intricate layering of France's secular clergy, which resulted partly from their differing social backgrounds and, partly, from the complex and essentially unchanged benefice system in which they were anchored. Yet a generation of bishops increasingly viewed their objective of a well-regulated diocese in terms of a disciplined, resident and conscientious lower clergy, of whom the parish priests were to be the linchpin. However, such a specific objective could not be pursued on its own, as if the parish clergy were merely the servants and appointees of the bishops, nor could it be divorced from the problem of what to do with lower ranks of the populous secular clergy as a whole. Consequently, there was no miraculous “one-size-fits-all” remedy that could single-handedly transform the lower clergy, actual or future, so that a combination of measures, both old and new, had to be tried.Less
This chapter discusses the problems that arise in the effort to transform the intricate layering of France's secular clergy, which resulted partly from their differing social backgrounds and, partly, from the complex and essentially unchanged benefice system in which they were anchored. Yet a generation of bishops increasingly viewed their objective of a well-regulated diocese in terms of a disciplined, resident and conscientious lower clergy, of whom the parish priests were to be the linchpin. However, such a specific objective could not be pursued on its own, as if the parish clergy were merely the servants and appointees of the bishops, nor could it be divorced from the problem of what to do with lower ranks of the populous secular clergy as a whole. Consequently, there was no miraculous “one-size-fits-all” remedy that could single-handedly transform the lower clergy, actual or future, so that a combination of measures, both old and new, had to be tried.
Gerd-Rainer Horn
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199593255
- eISBN:
- 9780191761218
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199593255.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History, Theology
Second wave Left Catholicism was both cause and effect of a deep-going radicalization of the priesthood in Western Europe. A second wave of worker priests emerged in the wake of the reauthorization ...
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Second wave Left Catholicism was both cause and effect of a deep-going radicalization of the priesthood in Western Europe. A second wave of worker priests emerged in the wake of the reauthorization of this experiment in late 1965. In particular in the wake of the social explosions of 1968, the number of second wave worker priests soon far surpassed, in total numbers and the range of countries affected, the first wave, the latter having been limited to France and Belgium only. In addition, an even more astounding series of organizations assembling radicalized secular (and regular) priests arose in virtually every single country of Western Europe. Their efforts at constructing international networks and protest gatherings form the conclusion to this chapter.Less
Second wave Left Catholicism was both cause and effect of a deep-going radicalization of the priesthood in Western Europe. A second wave of worker priests emerged in the wake of the reauthorization of this experiment in late 1965. In particular in the wake of the social explosions of 1968, the number of second wave worker priests soon far surpassed, in total numbers and the range of countries affected, the first wave, the latter having been limited to France and Belgium only. In addition, an even more astounding series of organizations assembling radicalized secular (and regular) priests arose in virtually every single country of Western Europe. Their efforts at constructing international networks and protest gatherings form the conclusion to this chapter.
John McCourt
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198729600
- eISBN:
- 9780191796456
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198729600.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature, Prose (inc. letters, diaries)
Chapter 5 studies Trollope’s depictions of the Irish clergy, both Catholic and Protestant. It reveals his considerable knowledge of the workings of the Irish churches and shows his unusual sympathy ...
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Chapter 5 studies Trollope’s depictions of the Irish clergy, both Catholic and Protestant. It reveals his considerable knowledge of the workings of the Irish churches and shows his unusual sympathy for the older Catholic priests, educated on the Continent, whom he saw as a force for good in the country (unlike their more rebellious Maynooth-educated curates). Trollope for the most part respected Irish priests and saw them as a bulwark against any radicalization of their flocks. The Catholicism that Trollope praises is one separated from Irish nationalist politics. Trollope also rehearses, in his Irish writings, much of the Anglican Church material that would be used with such brilliant comic effect in his Barsetshire novels, already exploring the tensions between High and Low Church Anglicanism.Less
Chapter 5 studies Trollope’s depictions of the Irish clergy, both Catholic and Protestant. It reveals his considerable knowledge of the workings of the Irish churches and shows his unusual sympathy for the older Catholic priests, educated on the Continent, whom he saw as a force for good in the country (unlike their more rebellious Maynooth-educated curates). Trollope for the most part respected Irish priests and saw them as a bulwark against any radicalization of their flocks. The Catholicism that Trollope praises is one separated from Irish nationalist politics. Trollope also rehearses, in his Irish writings, much of the Anglican Church material that would be used with such brilliant comic effect in his Barsetshire novels, already exploring the tensions between High and Low Church Anglicanism.
Araminta Stone Johnston
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604738285
- eISBN:
- 9781604738292
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604738285.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter describes Gray’s first parish assignment after graduating from the seminary: Calvary Church in Cleveland and the smaller but older Grace Church in Rosedale, both in Bolivar County, ...
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This chapter describes Gray’s first parish assignment after graduating from the seminary: Calvary Church in Cleveland and the smaller but older Grace Church in Rosedale, both in Bolivar County, Mississippi. With the beginning of Gray’s life as a parish priest also began a pattern that would follow the family for the rest of his life and was the result of his understanding of the Christian gospel: those who knocked on the door found it opened to them.Less
This chapter describes Gray’s first parish assignment after graduating from the seminary: Calvary Church in Cleveland and the smaller but older Grace Church in Rosedale, both in Bolivar County, Mississippi. With the beginning of Gray’s life as a parish priest also began a pattern that would follow the family for the rest of his life and was the result of his understanding of the Christian gospel: those who knocked on the door found it opened to them.
Martin Heale
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198702535
- eISBN:
- 9780191772221
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198702535.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, History of Religion
This chapter sheds light on the subsequent careers and fortunes of the last generation of monastic superiors in post-Dissolution England. Many former heads retired quietly and comfortably with their ...
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This chapter sheds light on the subsequent careers and fortunes of the last generation of monastic superiors in post-Dissolution England. Many former heads retired quietly and comfortably with their pensions, and others succeeded in acquiring parochial benefices to augment their income. Extant abbatial wills, however, display evidence of dislocation and a concern to preserve some measure of continuity with the past. These sources, moreover, indicate that most former superiors continued to hold traditional religious views. The accession of Mary was accordingly welcomed by many, and the modest restoration of religious houses during that reign seems to have prompted a renewal of monastic identity among former abbots and priors. This evidence casts doubt on the alleged ‘idyllic fate’ enjoyed by heads of houses after the Dissolution, and suggests that a good number sincerely regretted (or came to regret) the loss of their vocation and office.Less
This chapter sheds light on the subsequent careers and fortunes of the last generation of monastic superiors in post-Dissolution England. Many former heads retired quietly and comfortably with their pensions, and others succeeded in acquiring parochial benefices to augment their income. Extant abbatial wills, however, display evidence of dislocation and a concern to preserve some measure of continuity with the past. These sources, moreover, indicate that most former superiors continued to hold traditional religious views. The accession of Mary was accordingly welcomed by many, and the modest restoration of religious houses during that reign seems to have prompted a renewal of monastic identity among former abbots and priors. This evidence casts doubt on the alleged ‘idyllic fate’ enjoyed by heads of houses after the Dissolution, and suggests that a good number sincerely regretted (or came to regret) the loss of their vocation and office.
