Title: Re-imagining American Catholicism : the American bishops and their pastoral letters /
Authors: Kennedy, Eugene C.
Publisher: Vintage Books,
Year: 1985
Subjects: Catholic Church United States Bishops Political activity.; Christian sociology Catholic Church History of doctrines.
Contents: Who are the American Catholic bishops? -- American bishops, institutional men -- Case history, the development of the pastoral letter on the economy -- Critics of the American bishops -- John Cardinal O'Connor, the person is the center -- Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, a commitment to the collegial church -- Father Theodore Hesburgh, the view from Notre Dame -- A neighbor to every other person on our globe -- Appendix. Selections from the first draft of the U.S. bishops' pastoral letter on Catholic social teaching and the U.S. economy.