Research Catalog

Title

The social mission of the U.S. Catholic Church : a theological perspective / Charles E. Curran.

Author

Curran, Charles E.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2011.

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Details

Description

xi, 196 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Discusses the importance of the services provided by charities, hospitals, and schools run by the Catholic Church in the United States.

Series Statement

Moral traditions series

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Moral traditions series

Subject

• Catholic Church > United States > History
• Church work > United States > History
• Christian sociology > United States > History
• Church work > History
• Christian sociology > History
• United States > Church history

Genre/Form

• Church history
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Early historical context and taking care of our own -- The social mission of the church in the first part of the twentieth century -- The understanding of the church after Vatican II -- Vatican II and a new understanding of the social mission -- Post-Vatican II development of three earlier instances of the social mission -- Three significant issues in the post-Vatican II church -- Roles of the church in supporting the social mission -- U.S. bishops and abortion law -- Conclusions : looking backward and forward.

ISBN

• 9781589017436 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1589017439 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781589017177 (alk. paper)
• 158901717X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010012974

OCLC

591788296

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library