American Catholics and Civic Engagement: A Distinctive Voice / Edition 1

by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, Peter Steinfels, W Shepherdson Abell, Kirk Adams, Mary Jo Bane

Overview

Sheed & Ward proudly presents the first of two volumes in a groundbreaking series called American Catholics in the Public Square. The result of a three-year study sponsored by Pew aimed at understanding the contributions to U.S. civic life of the Catholic, Jewish, mainline and evangelical Protestant, African-American, Latino, and Muslim communities in the United States, the two volumes in this series gather selected essays from the Commonweal Colloquia and the joint meetings organized by the Commonweal Foundation and The Faith and Reason Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742531598
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/22/2003
Series:	American Catholics in the Public Square , #1
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels served as Commonweal's editor from 1988 to 2002 and as co-director of American Catholics in the Public Square project. Peter Steinfels writes the "Beliefs" column for the New York Times and is the author of A People Adrift: The Crisis of Roman Catholicism in America (2003).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Part 1: Catholic Thought in the American Context
Chapter 3 The Common Good & Catholic Social Thought
Chapter 4 Pluralism & the Common Good: A Response
Chapter 5 Catholic Social Thought & the American Experience
Chapter 6 Contending with Liberalism
Chapter 7 Catholics and the Liberal Tradition
Part 8 Part 2: Catholic Institutions in the American Public Square
Chapter 9 The Catholic Parish in the Public Square
Chapter 10 What do State Catholic Conferences Do?
Chapter 11 The Limits of Coalitions and Compromises: The California State Catholic Conference
Chapter 12 Catholic Health Care & the Challenge of Civic Society
Part 13 Part 3: Catholics in the Public Square: Autobiographies
Chapter 14 Pro-life, Pro-family, Pro-poor
Chapter 15 State House Politician
Chapter 16 On the Beat in the South Bronx and Central America
Chapter 17 Politics and Polling
Chapter 18 A Journalist's Calling
Chapter 19 Look for the Real Story
Chapter 20 Family, Faith and Union
Chapter 21 The Workers' Worker
Chapter 22 Family, Good Fortune and Stewardship
Chapter 23 God Deals with Me Through My Clients
Part 24 Part 4: Catholics in the Voting Booth
Chapter 25 How Catholic is the Catholic Vote?
Chapter 26 There Is No Catholic Vote-And It's Important
Chapter 27 Catholic Republicans
Chapter 28 Communitarian Lite

Editorial Reviews

An intense, wide-ranging, and engaging conversation about the complexities of American Catholic civic engagement, one deeply grounded in historical and contemporary research data. Especially effective are the ten brief autobiographies, which both challenge and illuminate the claims made by the authors elsewhere in the volume. An especially timely collection of essays. Recommended.

Choice Reviews

Timely, informative reading for all thinking Catholics!

America: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture

It is far richer and more instructive than anything you're likely to read on the op-ed page or see on cable talk shows.

Commonweal

... should be read by clergy, educators, and administrators who try to instill the values and principles of their Catholic faith into the people they are leading.

St. Anthony Messenger

It is far richer and more instructive than anything you're likely to read on the op-ed page or see on cable talk shows.

Commonweal Magazine

Steinfels's compilation exudes the spirit of James Joyce's adage that 'Catholicism means 'here comes everybody,'' celebrating the diversity within American Catholicism's already distinctive presence. Steinfels' contributors demonstrate the various ways in which faith, sometimes tenuously and other times with astonishing confidence, continues to move Catholics into American public life.

National Catholic Reporter

An intense, wide-ranging, and engaging conversation about the complexities of American Catholic civic engagement, one deeply grounded in historical and contemporary research data. Especially effective are the ten brief autobiographies, which both challenge and illuminate the claims made by the authors elsewhere in the volume. An especially timely collection of essays. Recommended.

CHOICE

A worthwhile and informative book, which should prompt Catholics to consider anew the intersections—or lack thereof—between faith and citizenship.

America

An intense, wide-ranging, and engaging conversation about the complexities of American Catholic civic engagement, one deeply grounded in historical and contemporary research data. Especially effective are the ten brief autobiographies, which both challenge and illuminate the claims made by the authors elsewhere in the volume. An especially timely collection of essays. Recommended.

Choice

Steinfels's compilation exudes the spirit of James Joyce's adage that 'Catholicism means 'here comes everybody, '' celebrating the diversity within American Catholicism's already distinctive presence. Steinfels' contributors demonstrate the various ways in which faith, sometimes tenuously and other times with astonishing confidence, continues to move Catholics into American public life.--National Catholic Reporter

An intense, wide-ranging, and engaging conversation about the complexities of American Catholic civic engagement, one deeply grounded in historical and contemporary research data. Especially effective are the ten brief autobiographies, which both challenge and illuminate the claims made by the authors elsewhere in the volume. An especially timely collection of essays. Recommended.--CHOICE

It is far richer and more instructive than anything you're likely to read on the op-ed page or see on cable talk shows.--Commonweal Magazine

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