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AutoreHannon Patrick
TitoloChurch and State in Ireland: Perspectives of Vatican II
RivistaIrish theological quarterly (the)
Annata82
Fasc.2
Anno2017
Pagine97-112
Campo TematicoInterreligiositą e Interculturalitą
Parole Chiave
Abstract This paper argues that Irish Bishops? Conference interventions in the public square since the Council have accorded well with the Declaration on Religious Freedom but have lacked an adequate awareness of key themes of the two Constitutions on the Church. It shows how attention to these themes may enrich the bishops? future contributions to debate on socio-legal issues in the changed context in which Irish Catholicism now finds itself. It maintains that public discussion of secularization has been on the whole superficial and unhelpful, and in the light of observations by Owen Chadwick and a proposal by Charles Taylor it offers some suggestions for its improvement.
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