Sentences with phrase «american episcopate»

«The American episcopate has been strong in its defence of the liberty of the Church against the attacks of the Obama administration, and a healthy majority of our bishops now think of themselves as evangelists as well as administrators.

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For just as revisionist historiographers of the Cold War reread the history of the Truman administration through the lens of their own Vietnam passions, the new American Catholic revisionists view the episcopate of John Carroll — the paradigm in the classic story line — through the prism of their own agenda for Catholicism in the 1990s.

Those who detect some affinity between Professor Dolan's revisionist designs for the truly «republican» episcopate of John Carroll and the agenda of certain parties a gauche in American Catholicism today will not be far off the mark.

If the classic story line stressed the essential continuity of the normative «Carroll Church» from the American Revolution to Vatican II (while taking account of the break in that trajectory occasioned by the Americanist and Modernist crises and the interwar «Romanization» of the American hierarchy), the revisionist story line stresses discontinuity: between the colonial period and the church of the Revolutionary period; between the first, «republican» years of Carroll's episcopate and his later, «conservative» period; between the Carroll Church and the «immigrant Church» that followed; between, most importantly, the working - class «Catholic ghetto Church» of 1925 - 55 and the post-conciliar suburban Church of the 1960s and 1970s.

After the achievement of independence when the Episcopal Church of its own volition got an Episcopate, and in spite of the pompous pretensions and sober protestations of such High - churchmen as Connecticut's Samuel Seabury, the new American church in order to attain organization on a national scale had to make the lay voice in its councils an essential part of its being.