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 Ecclesiology II The Church as Institution | Vatican II: Constitution on the Church in the Modern World |
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Ecclesiology II The Church as Institution | Vatican II: Constitution on the Church in the Modern World |
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CHURCH LAW Code of Canon Law Code of Canon Law IntraText version Sacrae Disciplinae Leges Apostolic Constitution of Pope John Paul II promulgating the 1983 Code Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts Profile of the Council. Will eventually contain council documents Law in the Life of the Church Statement of the New Zealand bishops upon the released of the 1983 Code Canon Law Society of America Law for Freedom: Structures and Norms in the Church Forty Years after the Council By Ladislas Orsy, S.J., 2006 Constitutions and Canon Law By Barbara L. Thomas in The Way, 1984 Temporal Administration in the New Code By Clarence Gallagher in The Way, 1984 Canon Law Auguste Boudinhon, Catholic Encyclopedia, 1910 Code of Canons of Oriental Churches THE CATHOLIC PARISH The Parish See articles 26-27 of Pope John Paul II's 1988 Apostolic Exhortation "Christifideles Laici" Called to Global Solidarity: International Challenges for U.S. Parishes 1997 document from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops One with Christ A Pastoral Letter on Catholic Parish Life in New Hampshire, March 2004 Pastoral Letter on Parish Clustering for Advent Pastoral letter by Bishop Michael Malone of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia Parishes Online Parishes Online Search Engine helps you quickly find web sites, Mass times and directory information on any parish or diocese in the US Parish Mission Statements St. John the Baptist Parish, Newburgh, IN St. Mary of the Visitation Parish, Huntsville, AL Parish Registry System The Parish Registry System (PRS) is a "heavy-duty" MS-Windows-based program designed to make parish record-keeping easier. It consists of six registers: Families, Groups, Planned Giving, Baptisms, Weddings and Other Lists, each of which can contain hundreds of thousands of records Parish Social Justice A variety of resources to help parishes and individual Catholics learn more and do more in the arena of social justice Parish ministry Articles from the magazine Salt of the Earth Parish Pastoral Councils Courtesy of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Includes: Introduction by Cardinal Justin Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia; Rationale for Parish Pastoral Councils, Based in Documents of The Second Vatican Council Based on the 1983 Code of Canon Law; Principles Guiding Parish Pastoral Councils; Purpose of Parish Pastoral Councils; Function of Parish Pastoral Councils; Role of the Pastor in Parish Pastoral Councils; Parish Pastoral Council Size, Membership & Terms of Office; Parish Pastoral Council Meetings and Relationships with Other Committees Building Caring Communities: Whose task? By Rt Hon John Battle MP in Thinking Faith: The Online Journal of the English Jesuits, April 2009 Building a Healthy Congregational Culture in Today's Postmodern World By Peter T. Cha in Common Ground Journal, Fall 2008. Scroll down to page 21 Reflections upon Theological Reflection: How One Pastor Processed Ministry By Daryl Busby in Common Ground Journal, Fall 2008. Scroll down to page 62 Renovating the Pastoral Office By Daryl Busby, in Common Ground Journal, Fall 2004 Spirituality and the Parish By Kevin T. Kelly in The Way, 2001 Collaborative Ministry By Adrian Smith in Catholics for a Changing World Priestless Parishes Are Only Beginning of Story By Tim Unsworth in National Catholic Reporter, April 15, 1994 For Average Christian, Parish Isn't True Home By Mitch Finley in National Catholic Reporter, May 7, 1993 THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE Catholic dioceses all around the world Catholic Dioceses in the United States US Catholic Dioceses From the US Catholic Conference web page Vision Statement, Diocese of Arundel and Brighton in the U.K. Mission Statement, Diocese of Boise, Idaho HIERARCHY Vatican II: Dogmatic Constitution on the Church See Chapter 3: The Hierarchical Structure of the Church, with Special Reference to the Episcopate Magisterium Exercises Authority in Christ's Name Pope John Paul II, Address to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, November 24, 1995 Can Anything Good Come From Nazareth? On Some Dynamics of Hierarchy By Paschal Baute The Contextualization Debate: What About Leadership? By Marcus Dean in Common Ground Journal, Spring 2009. Scroll down to page 38 The Claims of the Primacy and the Costly Call to Unity 1996 lecture at Oxford by retired Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco. Responses by Cardinal O'Connor, Bishop James McHugh, and Archbishop Rembert Weakland The Church: Learning and Teaching By Ladislas Örsy, SJ, Michael Glazier, 1987 Leadership: Secular Gift Transformed by Revelation By Carroll Stuhlmueller in Women Priest, Paulist Press 1977 The Selection of Bishops Chapter One of Archbishop: Inside the Power Structure of the Catholic Church, by Thomas Reese, S.J., HarperCollins Publishers, 1989 Be Not Afraid: The Bishop as a Messenger of Hope By Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Denver Bishops and Structures of Accountability: An Ecclesiological Perspective By Susan K. Wood, S.C.L., Marquette University in CTSA Proceedings, 2007 Bishops and Structures of Accountability: An Ethical Perspective By Cynthia Crysdale, Catholic University of America in CTSA Proceedings, 2007 Bishops, Ministry, and the Unity of the Church in Ecumenical Dialogue: Deadlock, Breakthrough or Both? By Michael Root, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, SC, in CTSA Proceedings, 2007 The Vatican Takes over European Bishops: Secretariat Remade, Removed to Rome By Peter Hebblethwaite in National Catholic Reporter, March 5, 1993 Bishops: Transmit Faithfulness to God's Primacy and Will By Pope Benedict XVI to the Brazilian bishops, 2007 Ubi Primum (On The Duties Of Bishops) By Pope Benedict XIV, 1740 When Magisterium Becomes Imperium: Peter Damian on the Accountability of Bishops for Scandal By C. Colt Anderson in Theological Studies, December 2004 Divine Grace and Human Nature as Sources for the Universal Magisterium of Bishops By Thomas F. O'Meara in Theological Studies, December 2003 Bishops: Pastors or Agents of Globalization? By Fr. Francesco Pierli in African Scribe, 2001 The Ministry of the Bishop in Relation to the Blessed Trinity By Cardinal Francis George, O.M.I. in Catholic Dossier, May/June 2001 Information Deficit: Why the Church's Hierarchy Isn't Working By Andrew M. Greeley in Commonweal, March 12, 2004 Institutional Authority By Dr Andrew Thomas Kania, Director of Spirituality at Aquinas College, Manning, 2009 The Teaching Authority of Episcopal Conferences By Francis A. Sullivan in Theological Studies, September 2002 A Magisterium of Authority and Service By Theodore Davey in The Way, 2001 Look to Tradition: The Case for Electing Bishops By Adam A.J. DeVille in Commonweal, March 23, 2007 Walter Kasper on the Theology and the Praxis of the Bishop's Office By Kilian McDonnell in Theological Studies, December 2002 If Bishops Represent Anyone It's Jesus, Not Pope By Richard McBrien in National Catholic Reporter, Feb 24, 1995 The Bishop: Local Leader or Middle Man? By Andrew M. Greeley in National Catholic Reporter, Nov 11, 1994 'Secret' Criteria Set Bishops' Appointments By Peter Hebblethwaite in National Catholic Reporter, Feb 4, 1994 Archbishop: Inside the Power Structure of the American Catholic Church Book by Thomas J. Reese, S.J. (Harper & Row, 1989) Conferences of Bishops Theology Library links College of Cardinals Articles explaining the role of Cardinals & Bishops in the Catholic Church, as well as a complete up-to-date listing of all the currently living Cardinals The Pope George Joyce, The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911 On the Primacy of the Pope Boniface VIII: Unam Sanctam (1302) First Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ Session 4 of Vatican I, dealing with the papacy and papal infallibility In the Service of Unity New Zealand bishops' pastoral letter on the role of the pope in the Church Pope Benedict XVI This is the Vatican website where you can find the pope's biography as well as his major papal documents The Complete List of Popes A listing of all the popes with information on each one Papal Power By Paul Collins, Harper Collins, 1997 Papal Power in Toowoomba By Andrew Hamilton in Eureka Street, May 2011 Universi Dominici Gregis Apostolic Constitution issued by Pope John Paul II on vacancy of the Holy See and the election of the pope The Vatican Theology Library links The Petrine Ministry in a Changing Church By Hermann J. Pottmeyer The Papacy for a Global Church By Avery Dulles, S.J. in America, 2000 You Are Peter: A Critical Analysis of the Orthodox View of Papal Primacy in View of an Alternative Way of Exercising Papal Primacy By Vitalis Mshanga in Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Winter 2010 Ratzinger Comments on Changing Papacy By Peter Hebblethwaite in National Catholic Reporter, Feb 26, 1993 Current Perspectives on Petrine Ministry and Papal Primacy By Denis Fortin, Andrews University, in Andrews University Seminary Studies, 2003 Papal Transition By Thomas J. Reese, S.J. Updated April 5, 2010 The Modern Papacy By Paul Collins on "Catholics for a Changing Church" Unity, Plurality, and the Papacy By Hans Urs von Balthasar. From the Introduction to The Office of Peter and the Structure of the Church, 1986 Von Balthasar and the Office of Peter in the Church By John McDade in The Way, 2005 Papal Primacy By Rev. Emmanuel Clapsis of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, in Orthodoxy in Conversation, 2000. First printed in the Greek Orthodox Theological Review, 1987 24 Popes, Some Good, in Years Leading Up to First Millennium By Joseph Gallagher in National Catholic Reporter, March 17, 1995 God-with-us Calls for New Type of Papacy: Church Now Viewed as Community of Equals By Bernard Cooke in National Catholic Reporter, March 10, 1995 Papal Pomp Contrasts with Simplicity of Jesus By Bernard Cooke in National Catholic Reporter, March 3, 1995 Renewal of Papacy Will Transform the Church By Bernard Cooke in National Catholic Reporter, Feb 24, 1995 Medieval Papal Shenanigans Remind Us How Lucky We Are By Richard P. McBrien in National Catholic Reporter, Nov 4, 1994 Raised-Catholics Know What's What, What's Not - Papal Authority By Thomas E. Blackburn in National Catholic Reporter, August 26, 1994 The "Secondary Object" of Infallibility By Francis A. Sullivan in Theological Studies, September 1993 A Recent History of the Ordinary Universal Magisterium By Raymond W. Belair in American Theological Inquiry, 2008. Scroll down to page 70 Reforming the Vatican: What the Church Can Learn from Other Institutions By Thomas J. Reese in Commonweal, April 25, 2008 The Roman Curia By Michael M. Winter on "Catholics for a Changing Church" The Political Significance of the Papacy, Historically and in the Present Period Anthony Mansueto, University of New Mexico-Gallup, in Journal of Religion and Society, 2005 History and Art in the coats of arms of the Popes Lots of history, art and architecture from an Italian enthusiast Style or Substance: Does the Reputation of the Church Matter? By David McIlroy in Cambridge Papers, March 2004 Today's Sinners in Eyes of the Vatican May Very Well Be Tomorrow's Saints By Dawn Gibeau in National Catholic Reporter, Feb 3, 1995 The Church Once Looked Suspiciously Democratic By Andrew M. Greeley in National Catholic Reporter, August 26, 1994 OTHER Vatican II: Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches Pope John Paul II: Orientale Lumen Apostolic Letter to the Eastern Churches, 2 May 1995 Pope Pius XII: On the Reunion of the Ruthenian Church with Rome Promulgated on December 23, 1945 Pope Pius IX: On the Care of the Churches Encyclical of 8 Apr 1862. Pius, writing to the Eastern Bishops, speaks on papal authority, while reassuring them that Rome has no intention of forcing the Latin Rite on the Oriental. Churches Eastern Catholic Churches in the U.S. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Eastern Byzantine Rite Syro-Malabar Catholic Church The Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaic East Syrian Rite Also known as the Chaldean, Assyrian, or Persian Rite. An article from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia Conciliarism By John Challenor on "Catholics for a Changing Church" Niche Congregations and the Problem of Institutional Isomorphism: A Study of the Church as Institution By Matthew Mardis in Quodlibet Online Journal of Christian Theology and Philosophy, July 2003 |
