... England Scotland students Sunday Schools United States World War II baptism Baptists Church of England Congregationalists Methodists urban areas urbanisation working class rural areas churching clergy communion confirmation women youth church membership Roman Catholic Church Germany...

... Latinoamericana Larraín Manuel John Considine Ivan Illich Catholic Church missions Latin America In 1946 an earnest Maryknoll priest named John J. Considine asked, “For millions and tens of millions in Latin America, where is the Mass on Sunday morning near enough for them to frequent? Where...

... Jacques Catholic Church missions Ivan Illich Latin America failure Condemnations, repressions, removals, suspensions and the whole gamut of official disapprobation of initiative can be most helpful for true renewal of the church. Lee Hoinacki, 1967 ¹ On January 18, 1969...

... of the Catholic Church, the reasons for the growth in Catholic power can be clearly identified. It considers the support for corporatism and family policy as the main motives of Catholic political action. The chapter also looks how Catholic politicians assumed responsibility for national tasks and issues...

...Using newly available church and guerrilla records, this chapter first discusses the radicalization of the Catholic Church in Guatemala and the alliances formed by the religious and armed Left. Second, it explores the charges that Guatemalan evangelicals were the handmaidens of the Ríos Montt...

...The law of Hywel most manifestly contravened the law of the Catholic Church with regard to marriage and inheritance. Ecclesiastical commentators from John of Salisbury to Archbishop John Pecham believed that marriage customs in medieval Wales contradicted canon law in three respects in particular...

... by criminous clerks and of injuries inflicted upon clerics and other holders of a religious office. By the late 12th and 13th centuries, the period in which the earliest surviving Welsh lawbooks were redacted, the Catholic Church claimed that these were matters for the ecclesiastical courts by virtue of two...

...In exploring the relationship of medieval Welsh law to the Catholic Church, the present work has adopted two complementary approaches. It examined the impact of ecclesiastical criticism of Welsh law, particularly with regard to marriage and testamentary disposition. The discussion then shifted...

... young people considered Slí Eile an alternative to the institutional Irish Catholic Church, and Slí Eile’s efforts to promote lay–clerical collaboration. It describes how Slí Eile provided safe spaces where people could voice their doubts and find...

... of extra-institutional religion because of how its people define themselves in opposition to the Irish Catholic Church. It also analyses how Abundant Life is negotiating immigration and ethnic diversity. There are remarkably harmonious relationships between native Irish and immigrants, which were built...

... is seen by many as outside of the institutional Irish Catholic Church, because the monks have been willing to critique institutional responses to sexual abuse by clergy. The chapter also explores how Holy Cross functions as a haven for Christians from various traditions, empowers Catholic...

... incompatibility of the Catholic Church and American ideals and political practice are presented. James O'Neill was chairman of department of speech in Brooklyn College and the author of a study of education and the U.S. Constitution. ⁹² In the preface to Catholicism and American Freedom...

..., and remained in close contract with the original Calvinist impetus. The Congregationalists worried more about the political and social dangers posed by the Catholic Church. Theodore Parker (1810–1860) as a young man had abandoned “the faith of our fathers” passed on by the New England Congregational...

...Reformation principles have made conservative evangelicals unable to view the Catholic Church as positively related to the Pauline gospel of free grace, as in some sense a Christian church. However, some evangelicals have managed it. This chapter examines the figures representative of the very...

.... The book is laid out in 10 chapters and a conclusion. The first three chapters deal mainly with “who and what” questions (Who are the main actors? What exactly is happening?). In Chapter 1 I introduce the reader to child sexual abuse and the Catholic Church and the scope or spread of the problem...

...In setting out on the journey of research for this book the author sought to achieve an in-depth understanding of child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church that would include the views of the clerical perpetrators, set against the background of the relevant reports and literature on the topic...

...This chapter reviews the most significant general conclusions to be drawn about initiation from studying the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) as a rite of passage in the Catholic Church. Insights are gained from looking at the initiation process as both tradition and modernity...

...Despite the breakup of Christian unity in the Sixteenth century and the gradual emergence of political and religious tolerance, and freedom of conscience, the Catholic Church continues to contest laws that are not in accord with its doctrine, asserting that there are universal values...

... of a restatement of the fundamental doctrines of the Catholic Church. Pope Benedict XIV died on the eve of the abbe's departure, but, although this event constituted a set-back, Clement nevertheless left for Rome in the hope that the circumstances surrounding the election of a new pope would advance the cause...