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Catholicism and Citizenship
Political Cultures of the Church in the Twenty-First Century
Massimo Faggioli4
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The beginning of the twenty-first century has provided abundant evidence of the necessity to reexamine the relationship between Catholicism and the modern, global world. This book tries to proceed on this path with a focus on the meaning, legacy, and reception in today's world of the ecclesiology of Vatican II, starting with Gaudium et Spes: "This council exhorts Christians, as citizens of two cities, to strive to discharge their earthly duties conscientiously and in response to the Gospel spirit." Catholicism and Citizenship is a call for a rediscovery of the moral and political imagination of Vatican II for the Church and the world of our time.
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"With this book, Massimo Faggioli cements his reputation as his generation's premier interpreter of the relationship between American Catholics and the Church in Rome. He is incisive, insightful, and unfailingly constructive in his observations."
Cathleen Kaveny, Libby Professor of Law and Theology, Boston College
"Massimo Faggioli is in the first rank of theologians to come of age since the Second Vatican Council and to study both the Council and the post-conciliar era. In this book he sets out from Gaudium et Spes, the Council's document on the church in the modern world, to spur Catholic ecclesiology toward a new engagement with a globalizing world in political crisis, an engagement in line with Pope Fra
Peter Steinfels, Professor Emeritus, Fordham University, Former co-director of the Fordham
"In Catholicism and Citizenship, an accomplished historian of the Vatican II Church situates the novelty of Pope Francis's orientation-and the resistance it has provoked-on the complex, changing, and disturbing terrain of global politics and the crisis of the nation state.' Francis envisions the Church as an engaged member of world society-missionary and prophetic, yet nonideological and inclusive
Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College