[PDF] Pastoral Letter Of The Archbishop And Bishops Of The United States Assembled At The Third Plenary Council Of Baltimore To The Clergy And Laity Of Their Charge eBook

Author : Catholic Church Plenary Council
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 2018-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780483820968

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Excerpt from Pastoral Letter of the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore: The Archbishops and Bishops of the United States, in Plenary Council Assembled to the Clergy and Laity of Their Charge After the lapse of more than fourteen years it has again been permitted us to assemble in Plenary Council, for the purpose of more effectually uniting our efforts for the promotion of the great Object of our ministry - the advancement of the interests of the Church of God. God, indeed, needs not human agency, although He vouchsafes to employ it. As in assuming our nature our Divine Redeemer sub jected Himself to its conditions, and was made like unto us, sin only excepted;1 so He has willed that in the establishment and maintenance of'his Church, human agency should be employed, and the means best adapted-for the attainment of its great end should be selected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Catholic Church Plenary Council of Balt
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,13 MB
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781373262301

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Author : Michael D. Breidenbach
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 067424723X

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How early American Catholics justified secularism and overcame suspicions of disloyalty, transforming ideas of religious liberty in the process. In colonial America, Catholics were presumed dangerous until proven loyal. Yet Catholics went on to sign the Declaration of Independence and helped to finalize the First Amendment to the Constitution. What explains this remarkable transformation? Michael Breidenbach shows how Catholic leaders emphasized their churchÕs own traditionsÑrather than Enlightenment liberalismÑto secure the religious liberty that enabled their incorporation in American life. Catholics responded to charges of disloyalty by denying papal infallibility and the popeÕs authority to intervene in civil affairs. Rome staunchly rejected such dissent, but reform-minded Catholics justified their stance by looking to conciliarism, an intellectual tradition rooted in medieval Catholic thought yet compatible with a republican view of temporal independence and church-state separation. Drawing on new archival material, Breidenbach finds that early American Catholic leaders, including Maryland founder Cecil Calvert and members of the prominent Carroll family, relied on the conciliarist tradition to help institute religious toleration, including the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649. The critical role of Catholics in establishing American churchÐstate separation enjoins us to revise not only our sense of who the American founders were, but also our understanding of the sources of secularism. ChurchÐstate separation in America, generally understood as the product of a Protestant-driven Enlightenment, was in key respects derived from Catholic thinking. Our Dear-Bought Liberty therefore offers a dramatic departure from received wisdom, suggesting that religious liberty in America was not bestowed by liberal consensus but partly defined through the ingenuity of a persecuted minority.