Bending Toward Justice

Christine Schenk

doi:10.5771/9798881800482

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Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 979-8-8818-0047-5
ISBN-Online: 979-8-8818-0048-2
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 258
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. Shrinking Parishes to Fit the Number of Priests No access
2. Clergy Sex Abuse Payouts No access
3. Catholics Stop Attending Mass—Even Before the Pandemic No access
1. Did You Live Life to the Full? You Betcha I Did! No access
2. Innovative Catholic Educator No access
1. “Professoressa Kati” No access
2. Coursework and the Rights of the Lay Faithful No access
3. Life in Rome No access
4. Doctoral Studies: Cardinal Hume No access
1. Do Catholics Have Rights in the Church? No access
2. Vatican II and Canon Law: Some Background No access
3. Parish Rights and Obligations No access
4. Canon Law 101: Rights, Responsibilities, and Recourse No access
5. More About Administrative Recourse No access
6. “Do Not Stifle the Spirit”—Save Our Parish Community Initiative No access
7. The Independent Practice of Canon Law No access
1. Parishioners Appeal Despite Pundit Predictions of Failure No access
2. St. Mary Parish, Jamesville—Diocese of Syracuse No access
3. St. Mary Appeal to the Apostolic Signatura No access
4. “The Smoke of Good Jurisprudence” No access
5. Unprecedented Full Court Hearing at the Apostolic Signatura No access
6. Signatura Decrees That St. Mary’s Church, Jamesville, Must Remain Open No access
7. Syracuse Diocese Balks But Loses Appeal No access
1. St. Vincent Pallotti Parish—Diocese of Camden, New Jersey No access
2. About Monsignor Marucci No access
3. A Diocesan Planning Process Gone Awry No access
4. Some Planners Walk Out; Others Go Back to Drawing Board No access
5. A Shocking Announcement No access
6. Diocesan Bid to Acquire Assets and Violation of Donor Intent No access
7. The Bishop and the Broker No access
8. The Bishop Says No, No, and No No access
9. Attempts to Discredit the Pastor No access
10. Seeking Recourse in Rome No access
11. Monsignor Lou Marucci Interviews Sr. Kate Kuenstler No access
12. FOSVP File Administrative Appeal to Rome No access
13. Hammering Out a New Canonical Approach No access
14. Second Petition to Vatican Yields Unprecedented Response No access
15. Exhaustive Five-Volume Recourse Sent to Congregation for the Clergy No access
16. The Bishop Tries a Transfer No access
17. A Waiting Game, and Camden Catholics Keep Organizing No access
18. The Bishop Makes His Case No access
19. Congregation for the Clergy Upholds Galante—Without Reading SVP Recourse No access
20. Appeal to the Apostolic Signatura No access
21. Nearly Three Hundred SVP Parishioners Sue the Camden Diocese No access
22. Signatura Responds—Slowly No access
23. The Apostolic Signatura Demurs No access
24. A Watershed Moment: Sister Kate Writes to the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura No access
1. A Tale of Two Bishops No access
2. “As the Parish Goes, So Goes the Faith of the People.”—Bishop Pilla25 No access
3. Richard G. Lennon No access
4. Acclimating to Cleveland—Or Not No access
5. Of Mission and Money No access
6. A Planning Process Derailed: Vibrant Parish Life Phase II No access
7. Organizing to Defend Parish Rights No access
8. Northeast Ohio Parishes Resist No access
9. Saint Colman and Saint Ignatius Appeal to Bishop, and He Listens No access
10. An Uphill Battle—Recourse to the Congregation for the Clergy No access
11. Endangered Catholics No access
1. The Black Community: St. Cecilia, Epiphany, and Saint Adalbert No access
2. Saint Emeric—Personal/Ethnic Parishes Targeted No access
3. Historic St. Peter No access
4. A Closing Mass and the Opening of the Community of St. Peter No access
5. The Vatican Sends an Apostolic Visitor No access
6. Vatican Again Extends Deadline for Appeals No access
1. Sister Kate Writes a Commentary and Cleveland Priests Find Their Voice No access
2. More About a Pioneering Canonical Commentary No access
3. Learnings No access
4. A New Precedent—and New Alternatives to Closing Parishes No access
5. Lennon Reopens Parishes—and Closes the Pastoral Planning Office No access
6. For the First Time in US History Multiple Parishes Reopen (But It’s Messy) No access
1. Black Parish Reopens in the Archdiocese of Miami, Florida No access
2. A Change at the Congregation for the Clergy No access
3. Indianapolis: A Paradigm for Bishops on How to Do a Merger No access
4. Hispanic Immigrants Oppose Cardinal DiNardo and Save St. Stephens No access
5. Kate Defends Laity—and Holds Pastors and Bishops Accountable No access
6. Majority of Successful US Recourses Were Guided by Kuenstler No access
1. Vatican Orders Cardinal Dolan to Release Decrees No access
2. Identical Decrees for Over 125 Archdiocese of New York Parishes No access
3. Appealing to Rome Is Important, Even If It Fails No access
4. Financially Sound Parishes at Risk No access
5. The Deaf Community and St. Elizabeth of Hungary No access
6. The Reid Group No access
7. “I Have Influenced the Development of Jurisprudence” No access
1. Most Parishes Are Viable No access
2. Implications for Canon Law No access
3. A Dark Night of the Soul No access
4. Support from the PHJC Sisterhood No access
5. Kate’s Ill Health and Mother Kasper’s Canonization No access
6. “Dangerous Nun” Makes “Huge Symbolic Impact” No access
7. The Journey Home No access
8. Canon Lawyer for the People of God No access
1. Catholics Are Still Organizing to Appeal Mergers and Closures No access
2. Status of Other Recourses No access
3. Conclusion No access
1. Chapter 1 No access
2. Chapter 2 No access
3. Chapter 3 No access
4. Chapter 4 No access
5. Chapter 5 No access
6. Chapter 6 No access
7. Chapter 7 No access
8. Chapter 8 No access
9. Chapter 9 No access
10. Chapter 10 No access
11. Chapter 11 No access
12. Chapter 12 No access
13. Epilogue No access
Bibliography No access Pages 245 - 246
Index No access Pages 247 - 256
About the Author No access Pages 257 - 258