Recommend looking up Joseph Bernardin and his "Seamless Garment" and "Common Ground" reasoning.
The 1980s "stacking" of the US supreme court and of the US cardinals with conservatives were similar to each other? Reagan's adding of some ultra-conservatives was not yet controversial, as the court was still "balanced"? still had liberal and …
Recommend looking up Joseph Bernardin and his "Seamless Garment" and "Common Ground" reasoning.
The 1980s "stacking" of the US supreme court and of the US cardinals with conservatives were similar to each other? Reagan's adding of some ultra-conservatives was not yet controversial, as the court was still "balanced"? still had liberal and moderate and semi-conservatives chosen by earlier Presidents? One or two popes more conservative than the popes preceding them did essentially the same thing post Vatican II. The new US choices adhered to conservative Catholic doctrine, put longer-standing Catholic dogma, more liberal, "on the back burner", a situation which Pope Francis has been correcting . (Earlier, Pope Leo had been liberal on labor policies, with Pope John 23rd liberal in his Vatican II reforms.)
Why was Bernardin allowed in to the Bishops, then in to the archBishops in the Reagan era, then into the Cardinals, though not conservative? Maybe as Bernardin had a gift for talking to everyone?
The person the Democrats chose to respond to Trump's speech Mar 4 would be in Bernardin's vein.
The Klan was still active in SC when Bernardin grew up there. The Klan was violently racist and anti-Semitic and anti-labor union, with anti-Catholic "another part of the same thing".
In the weeks after MLK died, Bernardin, for some time in Atlanta, was sent north, to Cincinnati and Chicago.
One biography of him is at the Digitalcommons of cbsSJU.edu (Jesuit place, but he was Franciscan). It's in an issue of "The Journal of Social Encounters", in which William Droel of Chicago reviewed a book, "Joseph Bernardin: Seeking Common Ground" (pub. 2016, by Stephen Millies, of Collegeville, Minn.)
He was selected/appointed as secretary to the Council of US Bishops. In 1983, in Chicago, Bernardin headed a committee on War and Peace. He'd insisted on diverse members from the clergy hierarchy. They ranged, from military, to Pax Christi. They interviewed experts and lay people.
Their report was criticized by public officials of the Reagan years(1981 to 1989) and by what Droel called "neo-conservative Catholics" (future MAGA?).
Bernardin eventually expanded the committee's War and Peace conclusions into his seamless garment theology. (MAGA wears just one sleeve of Christianity, tearing the rest of the Christian garment into shreds?)
Side note-Bernardin discussed the sex abuse crisis, did not stick his head in the sand. Some sociologists say the crisis was a consequence of a shortage of priests, places not willing to fire priests based on rumor and gossip when there was a shortage. (Studies of incest point out "private places" as fostering that problem inside families.. Churches that had no private spots inside had less trouble, as anybody could walk through, at any time.)
Protestants have had clergy affairs with females in the congregations at times of clergy shortages. Another thing-- The Catholics and the Boy Scouts kept records of accusations, while many Protestants did not. (No records is not the same as sinless.)
Recommend looking up Joseph Bernardin and his "Seamless Garment" and "Common Ground" reasoning.
The 1980s "stacking" of the US supreme court and of the US cardinals with conservatives were similar to each other? Reagan's adding of some ultra-conservatives was not yet controversial, as the court was still "balanced"? still had liberal and moderate and semi-conservatives chosen by earlier Presidents? One or two popes more conservative than the popes preceding them did essentially the same thing post Vatican II. The new US choices adhered to conservative Catholic doctrine, put longer-standing Catholic dogma, more liberal, "on the back burner", a situation which Pope Francis has been correcting . (Earlier, Pope Leo had been liberal on labor policies, with Pope John 23rd liberal in his Vatican II reforms.)
Why was Bernardin allowed in to the Bishops, then in to the archBishops in the Reagan era, then into the Cardinals, though not conservative? Maybe as Bernardin had a gift for talking to everyone?
The person the Democrats chose to respond to Trump's speech Mar 4 would be in Bernardin's vein.
The Klan was still active in SC when Bernardin grew up there. The Klan was violently racist and anti-Semitic and anti-labor union, with anti-Catholic "another part of the same thing".
In the weeks after MLK died, Bernardin, for some time in Atlanta, was sent north, to Cincinnati and Chicago.
One biography of him is at the Digitalcommons of cbsSJU.edu (Jesuit place, but he was Franciscan). It's in an issue of "The Journal of Social Encounters", in which William Droel of Chicago reviewed a book, "Joseph Bernardin: Seeking Common Ground" (pub. 2016, by Stephen Millies, of Collegeville, Minn.)
He was selected/appointed as secretary to the Council of US Bishops. In 1983, in Chicago, Bernardin headed a committee on War and Peace. He'd insisted on diverse members from the clergy hierarchy. They ranged, from military, to Pax Christi. They interviewed experts and lay people.
Their report was criticized by public officials of the Reagan years(1981 to 1989) and by what Droel called "neo-conservative Catholics" (future MAGA?).
Bernardin eventually expanded the committee's War and Peace conclusions into his seamless garment theology. (MAGA wears just one sleeve of Christianity, tearing the rest of the Christian garment into shreds?)
Side note-Bernardin discussed the sex abuse crisis, did not stick his head in the sand. Some sociologists say the crisis was a consequence of a shortage of priests, places not willing to fire priests based on rumor and gossip when there was a shortage. (Studies of incest point out "private places" as fostering that problem inside families.. Churches that had no private spots inside had less trouble, as anybody could walk through, at any time.)
Protestants have had clergy affairs with females in the congregations at times of clergy shortages. Another thing-- The Catholics and the Boy Scouts kept records of accusations, while many Protestants did not. (No records is not the same as sinless.)