Roman Catholic Clericalism
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Roman Catholic Clericalism
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Author : Joe Holland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-09-21
Roman Catholic Clericalism written by Joe Holland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-21 with categories.
THE CLERICAL SCANDAL OF SEXUAL-ABUSE and coverups, caused by a significant minority of the episcopacy and presbyterate of the Roman Catholic Church, has precipitated a strategic intellectual debate. On one side, the so-called 'conservative' intellectual diagnosis blames what some see as a broad presence within the contemporary Western Roman Catholic clergy of persons with homosexual tendencies. On the other side, the so-called 'progressive' intellectual diagnosis blames "Clericalism," which it sees only as a problematic psychological attitude, or an authoritarian, non-transparent, and unaccountable organizational culture, or both. This small book has not been written to defend either side of that debate, but rather to understand how Roman Catholic Clericalism is a systemic institution. Even so, it is important to state that any 'conservative' scapegoating of persons with a homosexual orientation for the clerical sexual-abuse and coverup scandals, as if homosexuality itself were the cause, blasphemes the image of God in those among us with a homosexual orientation. All human persons, regardless of sexual orientation, carry the beauty and dignity of our loving Creator's sacred image. It is also important to state that, while the 'progressive' diagnosis is correct at the surface level, it nonetheless fails to unveil the deep root of Clericalism as an historically legislated and non-evangelical institution, which inevitably regenerates problems and even pathologies for each successive clerical generation. The 'progressive' diagnosis also fails to explore how the non-evangelical institution of Roman Catholic Clericalism was historically constructed by imperial, papal, and conciliar legislation over more than a millennium and a half, and how it is now undermining the Western Catholic evangelization. Deepening the analysis of Clericalism to its foundational and tenacious institutional level is the purpose of this small book. JOE HOLLAND is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy & Religion from Saint Thomas University in Miami Gardens, Florida. He is also President of Pax Romana / Catholic Movement for Intellectual & Cultural Affairs USA, based in Washington DC. The author of 17 other books, he holds a PhD, from the University of Chicago.
To Hunt To Shoot To Entertain
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Author : Russell Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2011-07-12
To Hunt To Shoot To Entertain written by Russell Shaw and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-12 with Religion categories.
Why hasn't the Catholic Church been more successful up to now in realizing the Second Vatican Council's call for the evangelization of secular culture? Why hasn't the Gospel been preached more forthrightly to the modern world? The most important reason, as well as the least recognized, may be clericalism: the attitude, widely shared by Catholic laypeople as well as many priests, that clerics make up the active, elite corps in the Church, and laypeople are the passive mass; that clerics alone have intrinsic responsibility for the Church's mission while the apostalate of laypeople comes to them (if they come at all) only by delegation on the part of the clergy.To Hunt, To Shoot, To Entertain probes the theological and historical roots of this clericalist mentality as it has affected the Catholic laity, along with contemporary expressions of clericalism--the over-involvement of some clerics in secular politics, the sometimes exaggerated emphasis given to "lay ministers," and certain aspects for the feminist movement in today's Catholicism. This is not another revisionist attack on the priesthood, not one more alienated voice from the pews. Instead the book offers a prescription for authentic ecclesial renewal based on new, healthier lay-clergy relations in light of the teaching of Vatican II, Pope John Paul II, and other voices of the Magisterium. It presents a positive vision of a Church in which laypeople and clergy regard one another with mutual respect as partners in her mission to the world, with indispensable, contemporary tasks arising from their own special vocations.
Clericalism
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Author : George B. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date : 2017-06-15
Clericalism written by George B. Wilson and has been published by Liturgical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-15 with Religion categories.
Searching for answers in the midst of the sexual abuse crisis in the church, many blamed the clerical culture. But what exactly is this clerical culture? We may know it when we see it, but how can we 'whether clergy or laypeople 'go about dismantling it and putting in place a new, healthy culture? George Wilson has spent decades working with organizations to help them discover, and often recover, their foundational calling. He is also a Jesuit priest engaged in the lives of congregations. In Clericalism: The Death of Priesthood he brings together both capacities and gives his sense of the challenges facing the church. As members of the church, Wilson maintains, we are all responsible for creating a clerical culture. And we are also responsible for that culture's transformation. Clericalism aids this transformation by helping us examine some underlying attitudes that create and preserve destructive relationships between ordained and laity. After looking at the crisis and establishing where we are now, this book challenges us with concrete suggestions for changing behaviors. We are lay and ordained, but all baptized into the royal priesthood of 1 Peter 2:9, all called to spread the Gospel and do the work of God's love in the world. Ultimately, this is a hopeful book, looking for the restoration of a genuine priesthood, free of clericalism, in which we become truly united in Christ..
Call No One Father
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Author : Berise Heasly
language : en
Publisher: Coventry Press
Release Date : 2019-05-17
Call No One Father written by Berise Heasly and has been published by Coventry Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-17 with Religion categories.
Clericalism broadly describes an attitude within the churches, especially the Catholic Church, where all authority (and power) is vested in ordained clergy - bishops and priests - to the general exclusion of lay people especially women. The current Pope Francis has declared it a 'the ugliest perversion of the Church', declaring that it perverts Catholic understanding of the church's structures and ministry, especially since the Second Vatican Council. Call no one father by a concerned and educated 'person in the pew' considers how clericalism might be countered, basing her approach on sound educational principles that, hopefully, will lead all Catholics, including clergy, to an understanding of authority more in keeping with the ministry of Jesus.
Clerical Errors
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Author : Peter Murnane
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2022-08-04
Clerical Errors written by Peter Murnane and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-04 with Religion categories.
The Catholic church is in serious decline. This book claims that the corruption of the institution derives from various "clerical errors," especially clericalism, which assumes that clergy are superior and deserve privileges. Clericalism divides the church into two unequal classes, betraying the gospel, which teaches that all people are equal. Clerical privilege makes the sexual abuse of children more likely, and has led most bishops to conceal it. Clerical Errors begins by examining the trials and acquittal of Cardinal Pell. Was it the jury who made a grave error--or was it the cardinal? Other chapters look at worldwide sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy and traumatic impacts on survivors. What might have caused this tragedy? The institutional nature of the church? Defective Canon Law? Misuse of the sacrament of Confession? Compulsory celibacy? Homosexuality? The book's last, hopeful chapter proposes a radical but simple model for restoring the Christian church.
Clericalism
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Author : Gideon Goosen
language : en
Publisher: Coventry Press
Release Date : 2020-06-12
Clericalism written by Gideon Goosen and has been published by Coventry Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-12 with categories.
Clerical Errors
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Author : Peter Murnane
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2022-08-04
Clerical Errors written by Peter Murnane and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-04 with Religion categories.
The Catholic church is in serious decline. This book claims that the corruption of the institution derives from various “clerical errors,” especially clericalism, which assumes that clergy are superior and deserve privileges. Clericalism divides the church into two unequal classes, betraying the gospel, which teaches that all people are equal. Clerical privilege makes the sexual abuse of children more likely, and has led most bishops to conceal it. Clerical Errors begins by examining the trials and acquittal of Cardinal Pell. Was it the jury who made a grave error—or was it the cardinal? Other chapters look at worldwide sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy and traumatic impacts on survivors. What might have caused this tragedy? The institutional nature of the church? Defective Canon Law? Misuse of the sacrament of Confession? Compulsory celibacy? Homosexuality? The book’s last, hopeful chapter proposes a radical but simple model for restoring the Christian church.
National Christianity Or Caesarism And Clericalism
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Author : John Bickford Heard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
National Christianity Or Caesarism And Clericalism written by John Bickford Heard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with Caesaropapism categories.
Judas Was A Bishop
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Author : William M Shea
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-01-08
Judas Was A Bishop written by William M Shea and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-08 with categories.
The author, a practicing Roman Catholic, was confronted in 2002 with a leadership crisis in the church. Decades of horrendous clergy sexual abuse of children was accompanied by an even more momentous hierarchical betrayal in the cover-up of the crimes. The explosion in 2002 ended his naïveté and caused him to rework his understanding of the history and methods of hierarchy, and to think about the evils of clerical monarchy. The basic determinants of the current church crisis are, first, the sacred hierarchism of church structure and, second, the culture of clericalism that flows from it. The author argues that the church needs a thoroughly desacralized and demythologized leadership if Catholic clericalism is to be eliminated. The book also reflects on the lived Catholic life, contrasting the life of the priesthood and the life of marriage and family. The approach is at once narrative, historical-critical, and ecclesiological. It also offers a personal look at the author's life as a Catholic for the past seventy years. The basic existential issue is "Why am I still a Catholic, and, indeed, why is anyone?""Psychologically astute, Shea opens historically significant windows into Irish American Catholic culture, priestly formation, the mindset of bishops, and issues directly relating to the ecclesiastical control of Catholic theologians by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith and the scandals of clergy abuse and episcopal cover-up... William Shea's deep faith and unflinching candor are found on every page of Judas Was a Bishop." -American Catholic Studies, Donald Cozzens"...Powerful, absorbing memoir, by turns angry, funny, engaging and painfully candid... [Shea] offers radical proposals for reform, all turning on the notion that the core problem to be confronted is the gulf that separates clergy and laity, the long term result of a flimsy theological rationale which insists that the act of ordination itself marks an 'ontological' change in its recipients, making them company men of a special sort, fundamentally different from those they would help and teach, loyal mainly to guidance from above." -Michael J. Lacey is coeditor, with Francis Oakley, and contributor to The Crisis of Authority in Catholic Modernity, (Oxford University Press, New York, 2011)"...compelling and enlightening..." -Kevin Flanders, Spencer New Leader (MA)"Bill Shea has written a powerful and complex book about what Catholics so often write about: God, sex, authority and the Church. He writes autobiographically in the tradition of St. Augustine's Confessions and Thomas Merton's Seven Story Mountain as well as his The Sign of Jonas. He writes about the traumatic spiritual struggle with celibacy with which both Augustine and Merton were familiar. They chose to stay the course; Shea chose, after some twenty years, to find another spiritual path. That path was one opened up by marriage-a wife and two children-which finally gave him the spiritual peace he had been seeking. He writes of coming to the priesthood and leaving the priesthood for the lay Catholic life at a time of momentous historical transformation from the pre-Vatican II Church to the post-Vatican II Church. Even now we live with the struggle that exists between these two visions of the Church... So it is no accident that, like Augustine and Merton, Bill Shea finds God as a continuing presence, not at the end of his tale but in the twists and turns, the agonies and ecstasies, of his life journey." -Darrell Fasching, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, University of South Florida, TampaWilliam M. Shea graduated from the Columbia University School of Philosophy in 1973. He taught at three universities and two colleges over his forty year career, was a resident fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center at the Smithsonian (1986-87) and of the Ecumenical Institute at St. John's University in Collegeville MN. He held the chairmanship of the theology department at Saint Louis University.
European Anti Catholicism In A Comparative And Transnational Perspective
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Author : Yvonne Maria Werner
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2013-08-01
European Anti Catholicism In A Comparative And Transnational Perspective written by Yvonne Maria Werner and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-01 with Religion categories.
Tales about treacherous Jesuits and scheming popes are an important and pervasive part of European culture. They belong to a set of ideas, images, and practices that, when grouped under the label anti-Catholicism, represent a phenomenon that can be traced back to the Reformation. Anti-Catholic movements and sentiments crossed boundaries between European countries, contributing to the early modern consolidation of national identities. In the nineteenth century, secularist movements adopted and transformed confessional criticism in a new internationalist dimension that was articulated across the whole Western world. A variety of liberal, conservative, secular, Protestant, and other forces gave shape to this counter-image, taking on the function of a pattern from which one’s own ideals and beliefs could be chiselled out. The contributions to this volume show how different national contexts affected the proliferation of anti-Catholic messages over the course of four centuries of European history, and demonstrate that anti-Catholicism constituted a powerful European cross-cultural phenomenon.