Conservative Catholicism and the Carmelites
Subtitle: Identity, Ethnicity, and Tradition in the Modern Church
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780253340115
Subjects: Christian communities & monasticism; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Catholic Doctrinal Theology (General); Religion - Catholicism; Religion; USA; Christianity - History - Catholic; Institutions & Organizations; Christianity - Catholic; 20th century; Carmelite Sisters of the Most; Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles; Catholic Church; Conservatism; Hispanic American Catholics; History; Religious aspects; Religious life
First sentence: The year was 1961 when John F. Kennedy, a Roman Catholic descendant of Irish immigrants to America, became the thirty-fifth president of the United States.
Description: "In Conservative Catholicism and the Carmelites, Darryl V. Caterine explores the historical transformation after Vatican II of one community of Carmelite sisters into a neotraditionalist order defending an essentialist understanding of Catholic teaching and spearheading a movement among women religious to define the parameters of normative Catholicism.

The story of this order suggests that the fundamental disagreement between "conservative" and "liberal" Catholics may lie in a dispute about looking to Anglo-Protestant culture for a theological and ecclesiological model for the church."--BOOK JACKET.