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Book Synopsis A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion by : Daniel A. Dombrowski
Download or read book A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion written by Daniel A. Dombrowski and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catholic church has always opposed abortion, but -- contrary to popular belief -- not always for the same reasons. This tightly argued, historically grounded study sets out to demonstrate that a "pro-choice" stance, now held by a significant minority of Catholics, is as fully justified by Catholic thought as an anti-abortion view, and may even be more compatible with Catholic tradition than the current opposition to abortion espoused by many Catholics and most Catholic leaders. A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion argues that the current Catholic anti-abortion stance is justified neither by modern embryology nor by ancient church teachings. Combining up-to-date information on fetal development with a thorough grasp of the works of the church's early thinkers, Daniel A. Dombrowski and Robert Deltete expose crucial contradictions between the early and the modern church's views of abortion. Returning to the writings of two pillars of early Christian thought, Sts. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, the authors show that abortion was originally condemned by the church on the grounds of perversity, since it nullified the only permissible reason for sexual relations: procreation. Only in more recent times has the view arisen of abortion as indefensible on the ontological grounds that human personhood begins at the moment of conception. The authors demonstrate that the early church's view of fetal development -- delayed hominization, in which the fetus is endowed with a human soul only when it achieves a physical human body -- is diametrically opposed to the current anti-abortion stance. In fact, the authors show, the insistence on immediate hominization that provides thefoundation for the current "pro-life" view stems from two seventeenth-century scientific misconceptions -- preformationism and the homunculus -- that have since been thoroughly discredited. By considering the history of Catholic thought in its relation to the history of science, Dombrowski and Deltete bring a new level of detail and focus to the abortion debate. Their thoughtful, measured argument provides a fresh perspective that will benefit participants on all sides of the controversy.
Book Synopsis Upper West Side Catholics by : Thomas J. Shelley
Download or read book Upper West Side Catholics written by Thomas J. Shelley and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable history of a beloved Upper West Side church is in many respects a microcosm of the history of the Catholic Church in New York City. Here is a captivating study of a distinctive Catholic community on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, an area long noted for its liberal Catholic sympathies in contrast to the generally conservative attitude that has pervaded the archdiocese of New York. The author traces this liberal Catholic dimension of Upper West Side Catholics to a long if slender line of progressive priests that stretches back to the Civil War era, casting renewed light on their legacy: liturgical reform, concern for social justice, and a preferential option for the poor long before this phrase found its way into official church documents. In recent years this progressivism has demonstrated itself in a willingness to extend a warm welcome to LGBT Catholics, most notably at the Church of the Ascension on West 107th Street. Ascension was one of the first diocesan parishes in the archdiocese to offer a spiritual home to LGBT Catholics and continues to sponsor the Ascension Gay Fellowship Group. Exploring the dynamic history of the Catholic Church of the Ascension, this engaging and accessible book illustrates the unusual characteristics that have defined Catholicism on the Upper West Side for the better part of the last century and sheds light on similar congregations within the greater metropolis. In many respects, the history of Ascension parish exemplifies the history of Catholicism in New York City over the past two centuries because of the powerful presence of two defining characteristics: immigration and neighborhood change. The Church of the Ascension, in fact, is a showcase of the success of urban ethnic Catholicism. It was founded as a small German parish, developed into a large Irish parish, suffered a precipitous decline during the crime wave that devastated the Upper West Side from the 1960s to the 1980s, and was rescued from near-extinction by the influx of Puerto Rican and Dominican Catholics. It has emerged during the last several decades as a flourishing multi-ethnic, bilingual parish that is now experiencing the restored prosperity and prominence of the Upper West Side as one of Manhattan’s most integrated and popular residential neighborhoods.
Book Synopsis Goodbye, Good Men by : Michael S. Rose
Download or read book Goodbye, Good Men written by Michael S. Rose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goodbye, Good Men uncovers how radical liberalism has infiltrated the Catholic Church, overthrowing traditional beliefs, standards, and disciplines.
Download or read book What's Left? written by Mary Jo Weaver and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What's Left? employs a thoroughly in-house approach in which self-identified liberal Catholics examine various facets of liberal Catholicism.... this book explores some of the most prominent threads of leftist Catholic aspiration and dissent." --Choice What's Left? is the most comprehensive study to date of liberal American Catholics in the generation following the second Vatican council (1962-65). The main features of liberal American Catholicism--feminist theology and practice, contested issues of sexual conduct, new social locations of academic theology, liturgy, spirituality, ministry, race and ethnicity, and public Catholicism--are presented here in their historical and social contexts.
Book Synopsis A Catechism of the Liberal Catholic Church by : Bishop Wynn Wagner III
Download or read book A Catechism of the Liberal Catholic Church written by Bishop Wynn Wagner III and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW Expanded Edition.The Liberal Catholic Church combines deep mystical experience with intense personal freedom. It keeps stately and traditional liturgy but has progressive teachings and attitudes. God loves you just the way you are, and this book explains why.A CATECHISM OF THE LIBERAL CATHOLIC CHURCH is a concise introduction to Catholicism for the New Age. It shows you how to evolve spiritually. It offers a foundation for those who want to go deeply into mysticism, and it offers hope to anyone "turned off" by religion.This book is like a backpack for those on a spiritual journey. Buckle up: this is not your daddy's Catholicism.
Book Synopsis The Science of the Sacraments by : Charles Webster Leadbeater
Download or read book The Science of the Sacraments written by Charles Webster Leadbeater and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Catholic Church and Liberal Democracy by : Bernt Torvild Oftestad
Download or read book The Catholic Church and Liberal Democracy written by Bernt Torvild Oftestad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Catholic Church's critical stance towards liberalism and democracy following the French Revolution and through the 19th century was often entrenched, but the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s saw a shift in the Church's attitude towards democracy. In recent years, a conflict has emerged between Church doctrine and modern liberalism under Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. This book is a comprehensive overview of the Catholic Church's relationship to modern liberal democracy, from the end of the 18th century until today. It is a connection that is situated within the context of the history of ideas itself.
Book Synopsis The Parting of the Ways by : Frank W. Pigott
Download or read book The Parting of the Ways written by Frank W. Pigott and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of the basic teachings of Catholic Christianity followed by the teachings of one branch of the Liberal Catholic Movement--that which teaches reincarnation.
Book Synopsis The Emergence of Liberal Catholicism in America by : Robert D. Cross
Download or read book The Emergence of Liberal Catholicism in America written by Robert D. Cross and published by Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1958 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No period in American Catholic history has attracted as much scholarly interest in recent years as the last third of the nineteenth century, when the Church underwent a series of internal conflicts over issues that were various, specific, but somehow interlocking. Catholic leaders quarreled about such matters as the propriety of interfaith meetings, the condemnation of secret societies, the tempo of Americanization, the creation of a Catholic university, and the relation between parochial and public education. In spite of the intensive study these issues have received, their significance has been hard to grasp. The monographs have treated them as tactical controversies and have so stressed the underlying doctrinal unity among American Catholics that the bases of disagreement have never come fully into view. The present book, a Harvard doctoral dissertation, takes the clash of opinion seriously. By ranging more widely than anyone else has done through the published writings of late nineteenth-century Catholics, Dr. Cross has defined the social and even theological attitudes that distinguished a liberal from a conservative style of Catholicism. Urbanely, respectfully, but without sanctimonious pussy- footing, he has shown how these habits of mind shaped the numerous practical disputes of the day; and he has related the whole story both to European Catholicism and to the development of American society. -- from http://www.jstor.org (August 28, 2013).
Book Synopsis The Liturgy According to the Use of the Liberal Catholic Church by : Liberal Catholic Church
Download or read book The Liturgy According to the Use of the Liberal Catholic Church written by Liberal Catholic Church and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis What is Liberalism? by : Félix Sardá y Salvany
Download or read book What is Liberalism? written by Félix Sardá y Salvany and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Liturgy of the Liberal Catholic Church by :
Download or read book Liturgy of the Liberal Catholic Church written by and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Liturgy of the Liberal Catholic Church by :
Download or read book Liturgy of the Liberal Catholic Church written by and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-02 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Original CEREMONIES of the LIBERAL CATHOLIC RITE by : Irving S. Cooper
Download or read book The Original CEREMONIES of the LIBERAL CATHOLIC RITE written by Irving S. Cooper and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 1990 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Liturgy According to the Use of the Liberal Catholic Church by : Liberal Catholic Church
Download or read book The Liturgy According to the Use of the Liberal Catholic Church written by Liberal Catholic Church and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic book containing most of the official services of the Liberal Catholic Church International. Includes Epistles, Gospels, Collects, etc. through the Church year.
Book Synopsis The Complete Liturgy for Independent, Mystical and Liberal Catholics by : Wynn Wagner
Download or read book The Complete Liturgy for Independent, Mystical and Liberal Catholics written by Wynn Wagner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-09-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most indispensable book available for independent priests and bishops, especially those who want to balance traditional liturgies with progressive attitudes. This is 400+ pages of rites, rituals, liturgies and practices that cover the entire spectrum of Sacraments for the entire Christian year. Contains- * Eucharist (Liberal Catholic, Wadle) * Proper (Readings, Collects, Prefaces, Graduals) * Solemn Benediction * Services for the Sick * Holy Matrimony (Rite, Nuptial Mass, Adelphopoiia Rite for same-gender couples) * Holy Orders (all the minor orders, major orders, bishop's consecration) * Admission Ceremonies (church, server, singer) * Baptism (infant, child, adult, economia) * Confirmation * Communion outside of Mass * Funerals and Burials * Holy Week Services (Chrism Mass, etc.) * Blessings * Occasional Services * Prayers, Litany * Creeds
Book Synopsis The Truth at the Heart of the Lie by : James Carroll
Download or read book The Truth at the Heart of the Lie written by James Carroll and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Courageous and inspiring.”—Karen Armstrong, author of The Case for God “James Carroll takes us to the heart of one of the great crises of our times.”—Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve An eloquent memoir by a former priest and National Book Award–winning writer who traces the roots of the Catholic sexual abuse scandal back to the power structure of the Church itself, as he explores his own crisis of faith and journey to renewal NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY James Carroll weaves together the story of his quest to understand his personal beliefs and his relationship to the Catholic Church with the history of the Church itself. From his first awakening of faith as a boy to his gradual disillusionment as a Catholic, Carroll offers a razor-sharp examination both of himself and of how the Church became an institution that places power and dominance over people through an all-male clergy. Carroll argues that a male-supremacist clericalism is both the root cause and the ongoing enabler of the sexual abuse crisis. The power structure of clericalism poses an existential threat to the Church and compromises the ability of even a progressive pope like Pope Francis to advance change in an institution accountable only to itself. Carroll traces this dilemma back to the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages, when Scripture, Jesus Christ, and His teachings were reinterpreted as the Church became an empire. In a deeply personal re-examination of self, Carroll grapples with his own feelings of being chosen, his experiences as a priest, and the moments of doubt that made him leave the priesthood and embark on a long personal journey toward renewal—including his tenure as an op-ed columnist at The Boston Globe writing about sexual abuse in the Church. Ultimately, Carroll calls on the Church and all reform-minded Catholics to revive the culture from within by embracing anti-clerical, anti-misogynist resistance and staying grounded in the spirit of love that is the essential truth at the heart of Christian belief and Christian life.
