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Catholic Hospitals and Catholic Identity

Christian Bioethics, 2001
Catholic hospitals seek to offer health care in accord with the example of Christ. They have several models to assist in this effort. The first model is the values portrayed in the Gospels. The Catholic Church has sought to embody these Gospel values in specific teachings.
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Catholics and Catholic Schooling

Education Economics, 2005
Abstract The effect of Catholic religiosity as indicated by church attendance on the demand for Catholic schooling at the primary and secondary levels is estimated. It is shown that parents’ religiosity has a large effect on the probability that their children attend Catholic schools.
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Catholic–Lutheran–Catholic

The Medieval History Journal, 2009
This article undertakes a comparative analysis of two conversion narratives of Johannes Ferdinand Franz Weinberger, who converted in 1687 from Catholicism to Lutheranism and returned to the Catholic church one year later. After his reconversion, Weinberger found himself confronted by those who doubted his credibility and was consequently under ...
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When is a Catholic Not a Catholic?

The Linacre Quarterly, 2008
Abstract This letter asks U.S. bishops to provide clarification about whether politicians or even lay Catholics who proclaims publicly their support for abortion or euthanasia or stem-cell research are in communion with the Church.
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What Is Catholic about Catholic Charities?

Social Work, 2003
Sectarian social services agencies play an important and increasing role in contemporary social welfare. Among sectarian social welfare organizations, Catholic Charities USA has emerged as the largest private provider of social welfare services. This article reviews the history, services, and practice controversies of Catholic Charities USA and ...
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The Difference Catholic Makes: Catholic Faculty and Catholic Identity

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2004
This study examines, for the case of Catholics, the thesis that a “critical mass” of devoted faculty members—50 percent or more, according to the papal document Ex Corde Ecclesia—serves to promote or preserve the religious character of religiously affiliated institutions of higher education.
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The Catholic school in Zambia 1964–2014: Catholic and catholic?

International Studies in Catholic Education, 2015
This article sketches the history of the Catholic school in Zambia over a 50-year period noting how for reasons of political acceptability it increasingly became less at home with its religious mission thereby finding itself with an unclear sense of purpose. In order to redeem its identity, this article argues that there is need for the school to adopt
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Catholic Modernism and Catholic Dogma

The Biblical World, 1919
Although the movement in the Roman Catholic church known as Modernisn received its name in a Papal Encyclical of 1907, and officially perished with the issue of a Papal Motu Proprio of 19IO, it can by no means be historically confined within these dates.
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The Catholic Identity of Catholic Institutions

Theological Studies, 1997
This first note on moral theology discuses the catholic identity of three types of catholic institutions - health care, social service, and higher education - that today serve a pluralistic society with some support from tax moneys. Dramatic changes within the Church and society have occasioned the following questions : can does it mean for them to be ...
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Catholicity and the Catholic Church: Protestant Concerns and (Roman) Catholic Perspectives

Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology, 2022
This essay takes up recent Protestant concerns about Catholic theology's understanding of the Church's mark of catholicity. Wesleyan and Reformed authors have argued that the (Roman) Catholic Church is “Roman” but not “catholic.” In their view, the problem is that the Catholic theological conception of catholicity focuses on union with the pope (or ...
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