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2019-06-17T10:49:19-06:00

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Christian Democrats. The Center-Right Post-War Years

Last updated on: June 17, 2019 at 10:49 am By Jack Hartjes

Individual Catholics came through the Second World War in powerful positions in political parties that were, in name or in spirit, Christian Democrats. They argued opposite sides of major political issues. Some pushed strongly for federalism and world government that would include Communist countries. Others took up the anti-Communist banner and argued for strong nation-states and military preparedness. The shape of the world since then shows which side one out in the end. Jacques Maritain – his influence and ultimate failure – occupies the center... Read more

Catholic Modern

2019-06-17T10:49:39-06:00

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Pluralism, Anti-Fascism, and Fraternal Catholic Modernism, 1929-1944

Last updated on: June 17, 2019 at 10:49 am By Jack Hartjes

In the period between the two world wars, the Catholic Church was becoming modern, accepting its place in a secular state, learning to cooperate with different groups against common enemies. But all that was compatible with a deep strain of anti-Semitism. How then did some Jews find themselves attracted to the Catholic Church, working closely with Catholics, and even becoming Catholic? Under the large tent that is the Church, a majority were staunchly anti-communist and associated Jews with communism. But anti-fascism was another strong movement. It promoted pluralism, a... Read more

Catholic Modern

2019-06-17T10:49:54-06:00

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Anti-Communism, Human Rights, and Paternal Catholic Modernism, 1929-1944

Last updated on: June 17, 2019 at 10:49 am By Jack Hartjes

The years from 1929 to the end of the Second World War were disastrous ones for Europe. The Great Depression, the rise of dictators in several European countries, extreme nationalism and worship of blood and soil, six million Jews slaughtered in concentration camps—if this is any indication, then the modern Western world is both chaotic and demonic. Yet it was during these years and through movements of anti-Communism and anti-Fascism that the Catholic Church learned how to be modern. Catholic... Read more

Catholic Modern

2019-06-17T10:50:09-06:00

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Medieval or Ultra-Modern: The Anti-Modern Church of the 1920’s

Last updated on: June 17, 2019 at 10:50 am By Jack Hartjes

Part 3 in the series on Catholic Modern by James Chappel –Chapter One, Catholic Anti-modernism, 1920-1929 In the 1920’s Church was intellectually anti-modern in just about all its respects of that worldview. It rejected the separation of church and state, the capitalist economies, liberal democracy, the value of other religious confessions, and even the modern idea of the nation-state. Practically, many in the Church got along with all of these, even in multi-religious settings. But there was no “coherent and widely espoused language... Read more

Catholic Modern

2019-06-17T10:50:27-06:00

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Catholic Modernism, the Legacy of the 1930’s

Last updated on: June 17, 2019 at 10:50 am By Jack Hartjes

A modern Church emerged in the 1930’s, earlier, James Chappel holds, than often thought. Disagreements about over the form Catholic modernism should take marked the Church’s engagement with the world then and probably always will. Part 2 in the series on Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church by James Chappel – the Introduction The Catholic Church “has embraced modernism.” (p. 1) And she embraced it for good in the period between the two world wars. That doesn’t mean that... Read more

Catholic Modern

2019-06-17T10:50:44-06:00

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The Modern World in the Catholic Church

Last updated on: June 17, 2019 at 10:50 am By Jack Hartjes

A First Look at Catholic Modern by James Chappel I have been reading and writing about the Catholic Church during the years Augosto Pinochet was dictatorial ruler of Chile. The reading was from William T. Cavanaugh’s 1998 book Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ. That has led me to further exploration of church-state relations for two reasons. I wanted another take that was not tied into a specific country and such an extreme situation as Pinochet’s Chile. And I wanted to get another look at the... Read more

Catholic Modern

2019-05-27T14:29:37-06:00

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Memorial Day and the Liturgies of a small town in Rural Minnesota

Last updated on: May 27, 2019 at 2:29 pm By Jack Hartjes

I don’t know what it’s like in your town, but in my town in rural Southern Minnesota, there’s less than theoretically pure separation of religion and the public realm. That separation, better, relationship, has been a theme in most of my posts for a while. But now’s Memorial Day, and a time for celebrating. If that celebrating includes praying outside of church, well, it’s not a time for worrying about political fine points. Does everybody in town pray? Do they... Read more

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2019-07-23T16:11:55-06:00

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On the DOCAT, Social Justice Catechism for Youth, Part Two

Last updated on: July 23, 2019 at 4:11 pm By Jack Hartjes

A Look at Some Weakness amid Overall Strength I wrote last week in praise of DOCAT, What to Do? – The Social Teaching of the Catholic Church. That gift from Pope Francis to the world as well as to young people does indeed deserve praise. Pope Francis, in a challenge to become actively involved in justice work, sums up its strong message: “A Christian who in these times is not a revolutionary is not a Christian.” (In a forward, “About... Read more

Social Justice

2023-04-15T06:40:55-06:00

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The Eucharistic Imagination – Too Big for a Private Space

Last updated on: April 15, 2023 at 6:40 am By Jack Hartjes

In Chile, Cavanaugh says, “It should come as no surprise that reception of the Eucharist increased dramatically among the poor during the military dictatorship.” (p. 268) The regime had claimed the whole of public space for itself. For a time the Church thought it could operate freely in what was left—the private space of individual hearts and souls. But celebrating Eucharist, i.e. “going to church,” is a public act and, for many, the only public act available. Concluding the series on Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and... Read more

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Torture and Eucharist

2023-04-15T06:41:44-06:00

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Performing the Body of Christ against Torture in Chile

Last updated on: April 15, 2023 at 6:41 am By Jack Hartjes

The Church in Chile had confined itself to matters of the soul and the spirit as the Pinochet regime took increasingly brutal control of the country. Eventually the Church emerged from those restrictions and became an effective, true Body of Christ in opposition to the regime and solidarity with the people. In three sections of a final chapter Cavanaugh presents three ways that the Church in Chile learned to respond to torture. One, the bishops exercised their power of excommunication.... Read more

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Torture and Eucharist

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