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In the eighteenth century, the ideal of the priest in society was reformed by Polish and Lithuanian Catholic bishops. Instrumental in these reforms were Ignacy Massalski (1726–94), bishop of Vilnius (1762–94) and Michał Poniatowski (1736–94), bishop of Płock (1773–85), then archbishop of Gniezno (1785–94), and simultaneously administrator of the diocese of Kraków (1782–90). Their programmes included making clergy responsible for medical education and the organization of healthcare, and seeking to reform customs which were viewed as detrimental to health. The article draws on pastoral letters, popular educational books and administrative decrees to ascertain what ideas reformers imposed on the clergy. Episcopal visitation protocols, sermons and parish school textbooks are analysed to verify the effects of reforms and ascertain what was taught about health in the parishes. The examination of the relatively rare egodocuments of priests sheds light on how they experienced their afflictions. The article concludes that healthcare was an important topic for Catholic enlighteners in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and that priests played a significant role in promoting it. Reforms were driven by humanitarian and physiocratic principles, and were facilitated by an optimistic belief in the benefits of medicine. Nonetheless, many enlightened programmes failed because priests were unwilling or unable to implement changes that interfered with lived religion.

Life, as the poets have observed, imitates art. Nicholas Lemann has produced the most fascinating brief against meritocracy since Michael Young's 1957 novel that gave the world the term. And Lemann's critique is in a way prefigured in the populist “Chelsea Manifesto” that appears near the end of Young's The Rise of the Meritocracy: The classless society would be one which both possessed and acted upon plural values. Were we to evaluate people, not only according to their intelligence and their education, their occupation, and their power, but according to their kindliness and their courage, their imagination and sensitivity, their sympathy and generosity, there could be no classes. Who would be able to say that the scientist was superior to the porter with admirable qualities as a father, the civil servant with unusual skill at gaining prizes superior to the lorry-driver with unusual skill at growing roses? The Lemann Manifesto, so to speak, does not appear until the Afterword of The Big Test, but its message permeates “The Master Plan,” the second part of the book. In this section, Lemann takes on the postwar rise of the University of California system and the transformation of old “Episcopacy” institutions such as Yale into academic powerhouses with highly selective undergraduate admissions. He also introduces the issue of race and the apparent contradiction that low African-American SAT scores pose to the idea of meritocracy as a fair system of social mobility.

The article deals with the problem of the current jurisdictional division of Ukrainian Orthodoxy into three main branches. During the years of independence, our crew never received a long-awaited religious reconciliation. Today, Ukraine is one of the largest Orthodox countries in the world. Since 1991, Orthodox churches, which are different in their jurisdiction, operate in parallel, and they are not mutually recognized and opposed to each other. Having a common Volodymyr christening and being the same or similar in content, they differ in their own institutionalization in Ukrainian society. The process and conditions of historical formation and the moment of occurrence are analyzed; universal and all-Orthodox recognition; institutionalization as a socially important element; modern development; distribution and transformation during the years of independence of the parish network of each of the Orthodox churches represented in Ukraine. It has been established that the canonical recognition of the newly formed Orthodox Church of Ukraine will contribute to the consolidation of the Ukrainian nation and the strengthening of the independence of the state. This is extremely important for the formation of a new civil society in Ukraine. Moreover, the new united church is one of the indispensable elements of the establishment of Ukrainian statehood and its weight in the international arena. At the same time, there are a number of unresolved issues. In itself, Tomos did not combine all branches of Orthodoxy into a single church at this time. Problems of simony, dominance of the episcopate in comparison with priests, Sodom sin, super-luxurious bishop's life, church extortion, low level of general and spiritual education of the majority of clergy, lack of official employment of the clergy, extracurricular profitable activity of clergy and others remain unsolved. At the beginning of 2019, the jurisdictional separation continues. The pro-Russian church in the vast majority of dioceses and parishes does not participate in the process of association. Only the beginning of the CSP as a legal entity and its official registration have begun. Delegates are expected to be nominated and the first Organizing Synod of the newly formed church structure is to be convened. It is important to declare its existence, but to achieve its recognition by all the local churches of the world without a real and complete unification of the currently divided Orthodox churches in Ukraine will be difficult. Therefore, the in-depth analysis of the jurisdictional division of Ukrainian Orthodoxy in its historical section will give an opportunity to explain as much as possible the essence and reasons for the distinction for their possible elimination and further unification.

Inspections of seminars by state authorities in Poland in 1960–1971In 1960–1971 the government conducted inspections of seminars, both diocesan seminars and those run by religious orders, all over Poland. The success of the authorities’ efforts depended on the seminar in question and the year. As early as in February 1950 the first attempts were made to subordinate some seminars to state control, specifically, the control of the Ministry of Education, on the basis of Articles 96–107 of the Decree 28 October 1947, which dealt with the organisation of schools and higher education institutions. The remaining seminars were to be controlled by the respective Boards of Education, in accordance with the Private Schools Act of 11 March 1932. Invoking these legislative acts, the authorities wanted to exercise the right to grant approval to statutes, curricula, appointment of teaching staff as well as supervise the implementation of the curricula in the seminars. Yet their efforts produced meagre results. This did not change until 1959, when the communist authorities realised that freedom of educating and forming future priests was extremely problematic for them and that the process was completely out of their control. A conviction that in its seminars the Church was educating future priests in an atmosphere that was hostile to the people’s republic and was promoting views hostile to the interests of society prompted the communist authorities to take action seeking to take control of seminars. The seminars were to abide by the provisions of the Act of 19 April 1950 on the Change of the Organisation State Authorities with Regard to Municipal and Public Administration, Private Schools Act of 11 March 1932, and then the Act of 15 July 1961 on the Development of the Education System as well as the Ordinance of the Minister of Education of 26 February 1965 on the Rules and Conditions of Running Non-State Schools and Other Education Institutions. They were also subordinated to the control of the state authorities. After more than a decade of battles between the government and the Polish Episcopate, the question of control over seminars was finally resolved in 1971, when the authorities ceased their inspections of seminars.Visitationen der höheren Priesterseminare durch staatliche Behörden in Polen in den Jahren 1960–1971In den Jahren 1960-1971 führten staatliche Behörden auf dem ganzen Gebiet Polens Visitationen in den höheren Seminaren der Diözesen und der Orden durch. Bereits im Februar 1950 versuchte man, einen Teil der Priesterseminare der Kontrolle des Staates, also des Ministeriums für Bildung und Erziehung auf Grund der Art. 96–107 des Dekretes vom 28. Oktober 1947, die die Organisation der Wissenschaft und des höheren Schulwesens betreffen, zu unterziehen. Die restlichen höheren und kleinen Seminare sollten der Kontrolle der Schulkuratorien gemäß dem Gesetz vom 11. März 1932 über Privatschulen und wissenschaftliche sowie erzieherische Einrichtungen unterliegen. Aufgrund dieser Rechtsakte wollten die Behörden über das Recht verfügen, die Satzungen, Programme und Unterrichtspläne zu bestätigen, das Lehrpersonal zu berufen und die Ausübung der Programme in den Seminaren ständig zu kontrollieren, was ihnen jedoch nicht gelang. Eine Änderung erfolgte erst im Jahre 1959, als die kommunistischen Behörden sich dessen bewusst wurden, dass die Freiheit des Unterrichtes und der Erziehung der Priesterkandidaten eine sehr heikle und durch den Staat nicht kontrollierte Angelegenheit blieb. Aufgrund der Überzeugung, dass die Ausbildung in den Seminaren in einer staatsfeindlichen Atmosphäre verläuft und dort Meinungen gefördert werden, die sozialfeindlich sind, haben die Volksbehörden Maßnahmen zur Kontrolle der höheren Priesterseminare getroffen. Die höheren Priesterseminare wurden damals dem Gesetz vom 19. April 1950 über die Änderung der Organisation der obersten Staatsbehörden im Bereich der kommunalen Wirtschaft und der öffentlichen Verwaltung, dem Gesetz vom 11. März 1932 über Privatschulen und weiterhin dem Gesetz vom 15. Juli 1961 über die Entwicklung des Bildungssystems und Erziehungswesens und der Verordnung des Kultusministers vom 26. Februar 1965 in Sachen der Grundsätze und Bedingungen der Führung nicht staatlicher Schulen und anderer schulischer und pädagogischer Zentren unterordnet sowie der Aufsicht staatlicher Behörden unterzogen. Nach mehr als zehn Jahren eines Kampfes zwischen den Staatsbehörden und dem Episkopat Polens wurde die Aufsicht über die höheren Priesterseminare endgültig im Jahre 1971 eingestellt.

This paper is an exploration of the elements for developing a program of liturgical formation according to the principles and themes indicated in Pope John Paul II’s Dilecti Amici. It is in line with the celebration of the 2019 Year of the Youth, as it endeavors to get to know the youth better in view of ministering to them more effectively. Indicated in the paper is a general overview of the current situation of the youth, highlighting such features as those pertinent to their interests and capacity for liturgical participation. By learning the proper exercise of their ministry and being imbued with the true spirit of the liturgy, they will be able to bring themselves and the people whom they serve to a more devout and fruitful participation in liturgical celebrations. The paper offered an exposition of Pope John Paul II’s Apostolic Letter Dilecti Amici to bring to clearer light his vision for young people in and for the Church and cues that are pertinent and relevant for the liturgical formation of the youth today. Moreover, the paper articulates some considerations and indications for forming young people in and for the liturgy to help them grow spiritually in their formative years and thus equip them with the needed skills and values to make a positive impact on the Church and on the society both now and in their future. References Bacani, T., A Spirituality for Ministry, Manila 2006. Bauerschmidt, F.- Buckley, J., Catholic Theology: An Introduction, Oxford 2017. Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines-Episcopal Commission on Youth (CBCP-ECY) and the Catholic Educational of Association of the Philippines (CEAP), "The National Filipino Catholic Youth Study", Manila 2015. 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There’s no reason to think that Jesus wouldn’t have Facebooked or twittered if he came into the world now. Can you imagine his killer status updates? Reverend Schenck, New York, All Saints Episcopal Church (Mapes) The fundamental problem of religious communication is how best to represent and mediate the sacred. (O’Leary 787) What would Jesus tweet? Historically, the quest for sacred connections has relied on the mediation of faith communication via technological implements, from the use of the drum to mediate the Divine, to the use of the mechanical clock by monks as reminders to observe the canonical hours of prayer (Mumford). Today, religious communication practices increasingly implicate Web 2.0, or interactive, user-generated content like blogs (Cheong, Halavis & Kwon), and microblogs like “tweets” of no more than 140 characters sent via Web-based applications like text messaging, instant messaging, e-mail, or on the Web. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project’s latest report in October 2009, 19% of online adults said that they used a microblogging service to send messages from a computer or mobile device to family and friends who have signed up to receive them (Fox, Zickuhr & Smith). The ascendency of microblogging leads to interesting questions of how new media use alters spatio-temporal dynamics in peoples’ everyday consciousness, including ways in which tweeting facilitates ambient religious interactions. The notion of ambient strikes a particularly resonant chord for religious communication: many faith traditions advocate the practice of sacred mindfulness, and a consistent piety in light of holy devotion to an omnipresent and omniscient Divine being. This paper examines how faith believers appropriate the emergent microblogging practices to create an encompassing cultural surround to include microblogging rituals which promote regular, heightened prayer awareness. Faith tweets help constitute epiphany and a persistent sense of sacred connected presence, which in turn rouses an identification of a higher moral purpose and solidarity with other local and global believers. Amidst ongoing tensions about microblogging, religious organisations and their leadership have also begun to incorporate Twitter into their communication practices and outreach, to encourage the extension of presence beyond the church walls. Faith Tweeting and Mobile Mediated Prayers Twitter’s Website describes itself as a new media service that help users communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to the question, “What are you doing?” Some evangelical Christian groups harness these coincident messaging flows to create meaningful pathways for personal, intercessory and synchronised prayer. Using hashtags in a Twitter post creates a community convention or grouping around faith ideas and allows others to access them. Popular faith related hashtags include #twurch (Twitter + church), #prayer, #JIL (Jesus is Lord) and #pray4 (as in, #pray4 my mother). Just as mobile telephony assists distal family members to build “connected presence” (Christensen), I suggest that faith tweets stimulating mobile mediated prayers help build a sense of closeness and “religious connected presence” amongst the distributed family of faith believers, to recreate and reaffirm Divine and corporeal bonds. Consider the Calvin Institute of Worship’s set up of six different Twitter feeds to “pray the hours”. Praying the hours is an ancient practice of praying set prayers throughout certain times of the day, as marked in the Book of Common Prayer in the Christian tradition. Inspired by the Holy Scripture’s injunction to “pray without ceasing” ( 1 Thessalonians 5:17), users can sign up to receive hourly personal or intercessory prayers sent in brief verses or view a Tweetgrid with prayer feeds, to prompt continuous prayer or help those who are unsure of what words to pray. In this way, contemporary believers may reinvent the century-old practice of constant faith mediation as Twitter use helps to reintegrate scripture into people’s daily lives. Faith tweets that goad personal and intercessory prayer also makes ambient religious life salient, and preserves self-awareness of sanctified moments during normal, everyday activities. Furthermore, while the above “praying the hours” performance promotes a specific integration of scripture or prayer into individuals’ daily rhythms, other faith tweets are more focused on evangelism: to reach others through recurrent prayers or random inspirational messages sent throughout the day. For instance, as BBC News reports, religious leaders such as Cardinal Brady, head of Ireland’s Catholic Church, encourage parishioners to use Twitter to spread “the gift of prayer”, as they microblog their daily prayers for their friends and family. Cardinal Brady commented that, “such a sea of prayer is sure to strengthen our sense of solidarity with one another and remind us those who receive them that others really do care" (emphasis mine). Indeed, Cardinal Brady’s observation is instructive to the “Twitness” of faithful microbloggers who desire to shape the blogosphere, and create new faith connections. “JesusTweeters” is a faith-based social networking site, and a service which allows users to send out messages from any random tweet from the Bible Tweet Library, or their own personal messages on a scheduled basis. The site reports that over 500 members of JesusTweeters, each with an average of 500 followers, have signed up to help “spread the Word” worldwide through Twitter. This is an interesting emergent form of Twitter action, as it translates to more than 2.5 million faith tweets being circulated online daily. Moreover, Twitter encourages ‘connected presence’ whereby the use of microblogging enables online faith believers to enjoy an intimate, ‘always on’ virtual presence with their other congregational members during times of physical absence. In the recently released e-book The Reason Your Church Must Twitter, subtitled Making Your Ministry Contagious, author and self-proclaimed ‘technology evangelist’ Anthony Coppedge advocates churches to adopt Twitter as part of their overall communication strategy to maintain relational connectedness beyond the boundaries of established institutional practices. In his book, Coppedge argues that Twitter can be used as a “megaphone” for updates and announcements or as a “conversation” to spur sharing of ideas and prayer exchanges. In line with education scholars who promote Twitter as a pedagogical tool to enhance free-flowing interactions outside of the classroom (Dunlap & Lowenthal), Coppedge encourages pastors to tweet “life application points” from their sermons to their congregational members throughout the week, to reinforce the theme of their Sunday lesson. Ministry leaders are also encouraged to adopt Twitter to “become highly accessible” to members and communicate with their volunteers, in order to build stronger ecumenical relationships. Communication technology scholar Michele Jackson notes that Twitter is a form of visible “lifelogging” as interactants self-disclose their lived-in moments (731). In the case of faith tweets, co-presence is constructed when instantaneous Twitter updates announce new happenings on the church campus, shares prayer requests, confirms details of new events and gives public commendations to celebrate victories of staff members. In this way, microblogging helps to build a portable church where fellow believers can connect to each-other via the thread of frequent, running commentaries of their everyday lives. To further develop ‘connected presence’, a significant number of Churches have also begun to incorporate real-time Twitter streams during their Sunday services. For example, to stimulate congregational members’ sharing of their spontaneous reactions to the movement of the Holy Spirit, Westwind Church in Michigan has created a dozen “Twitter Sundays” where members are free to tweet at any time and at any worship service (Rochman). At Woodlands Church in Houston, a new service was started in 2009 which encourages parishioners to tweet their thoughts, reflections and questions throughout the service. The tweets are reviewed by church staff and they are posted as scrolling visual messages on a screen behind the pastor while he preaches (Patel). It is interesting to note that recurring faith tweets spatially filling the sanctuary screens blurs the visual hierarchies between the pastor as foreground and congregations as background to the degree that tweet voices from the congregation are blended into the church worship service. The interactive use of Twitter also differs from the forms of personal silent meditation and private devotional prayer that, traditionally, most liturgical church services encourage. In this way, key to new organisational practices within religious organisations is what some social commentators are now calling “ambient intimacy”, an enveloping social awareness of one’s social network (Pontin). Indeed, several pastors have acknowledged that faith tweets have enabled them to know their congregational members’ reflections, struggles and interests better and thus they are able to improve their teaching and caring ministry to meet congregants’ evolving spiritual needs (Mapes).Microblogging Rituals and Tweeting Tensions In many ways, faith tweets can be comprehended as microblogging rituals which have an ambient quality in engendering individuals’ spiritual self and group consciousness. The importance of examining emergent cyber-rituals is underscored by Stephen O’Leary in his 1996 seminal article on Cyberspace as Sacred Space. Writing in an earlier era of digital connections, O’Leary discussed e-mail and discussion forum cyber-rituals and what ritual gains in the virtual environment aside from its conventional physiological interactions. Drawing from Walter Ong’s understanding of the “secondary orality” accompanying the shift to electronic media, he argued that cyber-ritual as performative utterances restructure and reintegrate the minds and emotions of their participants, such that they are more aware of their interior self and a sense of communal group membership. Here, the above illustrative examples show how Twitter functions as the context for contemporary, mediated ritual practices to help believers construct a connected presence and affirm their religious identities within an environment where wired communication is a significant part of everyday life. To draw from Walter Ong’s words, microblogging rituals create a new textual and visual “sensorium” that has insightful implications for communication and media scholars. Faith tweeting by restructuring believers’ consciousness and generating a heightened awareness of relationship between the I, You and the Thou opens up possibilities for community building and revitalised religiosity to counteract claims of secularisation in technologically advanced and developed countries. “Praying the hours” guided by scripturally inspired faith tweets, for example, help seekers and believers experience epiphany and practice their faith in a more holistic way as they de-familarize mundane conditions and redeem a sense of the sacred from their everyday surrounds. Through the intermittent sharing of intercessory prayer tweets, faithful followers enact prayer chains and perceive themselves to be immersed in invariable spiritual battle to ward off evil ideology or atheistic beliefs. Moreover, the erosion of the authority of the church is offset by changed leadership practices within religious organisations which have experimented and actively incorporated Twitter into their daily institutional practices. To the extent that laity are willing to engage, creative practices to encourage congregational members to tweet during and after the service help revivify communal sentiments and a higher moral purpose through identification and solidarity with clergy leaders and other believers. Yet this ambience has its possible drawbacks as some experience tensions in their perception and use of Twitter as new technology within the church. Microblogging rituals may have negative implications for individual believers and religious organisations as they can weaken or pervert the existing relational links. As Pauline Cheong and Jessie Poon have pointed out, use of the Internet within religious organisations may bring about an alternative form of “perverse religious social capital building” as some clergy view that online communication detracts from real time relations and physical rituals. Indeed, some religious leaders have already articulated their concerns about Twitter and new tensions they experience in balancing the need to engage with new media audiences and the need for quiet reflection that spiritual rites such as confession of sins and the Holy Communion entail. According to the critics of faith tweeting, microblogging is time consuming and contributes to cognitive overload by taking away one’s attention to what is noteworthy at the moment. For Pastor Hayes of California for example, Twitter distracts his congregation’s focus on the sermon and thus he only recommends his members to tweet after the service. In an interview with the Houston Chronicle, he said: “If two people are talking at the same time, somebody’s not listening”, and “You cannot do two things at once and expect you’re not going to miss something” (Patel). Furthermore, similar to prior concerns voiced with new technologies, there are concerns over inappropriate tweet content that can comprise of crudity, gossip, malevolent and hate messages, which may be especially corrosive to faith communities that strive to model virtues like love, temperance and truth-telling (Vitello). In turn, some congregational members are also experiencing frustrations as they negotiate church boundaries and other members’ disapproval of their tweeting practices during service and church events. Censure of microblogging has taken the form of official requests for tweeting members to leave the sanctuary, to less formal social critique and the application of peer pressure to halt tweeting during religious proceedings and activities (Mapes). As a result of these connectivity tensions, varying recommendations have been recently published as fresh efforts to manage religious communication taking place in ambience. For instance, Coppedge recommends every tweeting church to include Twitter usage in their “church communications policy” to promote accountability within the organisation. The policy should include guidelines against excessive use of Twitter as spam, and for at least one leader to subscribe and monitor every Twitter account used. Furthermore, the Interpreter magazine of the United Methodist Church worldwide featured recommendations by Rev. Safiyah Fosua who listed eight important attributes for pastors wishing to incorporate Twitter during their worship services (Rice). These attributes are: highly adaptive; not easily distracted; secure in their presentation style; not easily taken aback when people appear to be focused on something other than listenin; into quality rather than volume; not easily rattled by things that are new; secure enough as a preacher to let God work through whatever is tweeted even if it is not the main points of the sermon; and carried on the same current the congregation is travelling on. For the most part, these attributes underscore how successful (read wired) contemporary religious leaders should be tolerant of ambient religious communication and of blurring hierarchies of information control when faced with microblogging and the “inexorable advance of multimodal connectedness” (Schroeder 1). To conclude, the rise of faith tweeting opens up a new portal to investigate accretive changes to culture as microblogging rituals nurture piety expressed in continuous prayer, praise and ecclesial updates. 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Pour la mission au Dahomey, il a été demandé à Mgr de Marion-Brésillac de fonder la Société des Missions Africaines. Aussi n’a-t-il pas été aisé pour les missionnaires de la SMA arrivés au Dahomey de préparer la relève en fondant le clergé local, même si cela était contraire à la doctrine de leur fondateur sur le clergé indigène. C’est finalement par l’insistance du Saint-Siège et par la détermination de Mgr Steinmetz, deuxième Vicaire apostolique du Dahomey que le clergé local a été institué. Mais contrairement à leurs aînés, les jeunes générations réclament l’amélioration de la qualité de leur formation. Les Supérieurs finissent par réagir favorablement aux requêtes des séminaristes. La Compagnie de Saint-Sulpice sollicitée pour la cause, passe la direction du Séminaire au clergé diocésain conformément aux termes du contrat avec les évêques tout en continuant à collaborer à la formation des séminaristes. La hiérarchie ecclésiastique étant totalement revenue au clergé local, elle est responsable de l’orientation de la formation des futurs prêtres en accord avec la Congrégation pour l’Évangélisation des Peuples. Les professeurs de Séminaires désormais pourvus des grades académiques canoniques, travaillent à l’harmonie et à la qualité de la formation des séminaristes béninois conformément à la Ratio fundamentalis de l’Église, dans un esprit d’inculturation. L’évangélisation s’étend et imprègne progressivement la culture béninoise de valeurs évangéliques. Des prêtres béninois ont marqué l’histoire nationale. Et le dynamisme tant des fidèles que du clergé du Bénin se remarque aussi au niveau de l’Église universelle
For the mission in Dahomey, it was asked of Bishop Marion-Brésillac to found the Society of African Missions. So had it not been easy for the missionaries who arrived in the SMA Dahomey to prepare future generations by forming the local clergy, even if this was contrary to the doctrine of their founder on the native clergy. It was finally by the insistence of the Holy See and by the determination of Mgr Steinmetz, second Apostolic Vicar of Dahomey that the local clergy was established. But unlike the elders the younger generations call for better quality of their training. Superiors eventually responded positively to the requests of seminarians. Compagnie de Saint-Sulpice solicited for this cause, handed over going the direction of the seminary to the diocesan clergy in conformity with the terms of the contract with the bishops while continuing to contribute to the formation of seminarians.The hierarchy is fully returned to the local clergy, she is responsible for guiding the formation of future priests in agreement with the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Seminary for lecturers now furnished with the canonical academic degrees, work to the harmony and quality of training of Benin seminarians according to the Fundamentalis ratio of the Church in an inculturation spirit. Evangelism gradually extends and permeates the culture of Benin Gospel values. Benin priests marked the nation's history. And the dynamism of both the faithful and clergy of Benin is also evident at the Universal Church

Pour la mission au Dahomey, il a été demandé à Mgr de Marion-Brésillac de fonder la Société des Missions Africaines. Aussi n’a-t-il pas été aisé pour les missionnaires de la SMA arrivés au Dahomey de préparer la relève en fondant le clergé local, même si cela était contraire à la doctrine de leur fondateur sur le clergé indigène. C’est finalement par l’insistance du Saint-Siège et par la détermination de Mgr Steinmetz, deuxième Vicaire apostolique du Dahomey que le clergé local a été institué. Mais contrairement à leurs aînés, les jeunes générations réclament l’amélioration de la qualité de leur formation. Les Supérieurs finissent par réagir favorablement aux requêtes des séminaristes. La Compagnie de Saint-Sulpice sollicitée pour la cause, passe la direction du Séminaire au clergé diocésain conformément aux termes du contrat avec les évêques tout en continuant à collaborer à la formation des séminaristes. La hiérarchie ecclésiastique étant totalement revenue au clergé local, elle est responsable de l’orientation de la formation des futurs prêtres en accord avec la Congrégation pour l’Évangélisation des Peuples. Les professeurs de Séminaires désormais pourvus des grades académiques canoniques, travaillent à l’harmonie et à la qualité de la formation des séminaristes béninois conformément à la Ratio fundamentalis de l’Église, dans un esprit d’inculturation. L’évangélisation s’étend et imprègne progressivement la culture béninoise de valeurs évangéliques. Des prêtres béninois ont marqué l’histoire nationale. Et le dynamisme tant des fidèles que du clergé du Bénin se remarque aussi au niveau de l’Église universelle
For the mission in Dahomey, it was asked of Bishop Marion-Brésillac to found the Society of African Missions. So had it not been easy for the missionaries who arrived in the SMA Dahomey to prepare future generations by forming the local clergy, even if this was contrary to the doctrine of their founder on the native clergy. It was finally by the insistence of the Holy See and by the determination of Mgr Steinmetz, second Apostolic Vicar of Dahomey that the local clergy was established. But unlike the elders the younger generations call for better quality of their training. Superiors eventually responded positively to the requests of seminarians. Compagnie de Saint-Sulpice solicited for this cause, handed over going the direction of the seminary to the diocesan clergy in conformity with the terms of the contract with the bishops while continuing to contribute to the formation of seminarians.The hierarchy is fully returned to the local clergy, she is responsible for guiding the formation of future priests in agreement with the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Seminary for lecturers now furnished with the canonical academic degrees, work to the harmony and quality of training of Benin seminarians according to the Fundamentalis ratio of the Church in an inculturation spirit. Evangelism gradually extends and permeates the culture of Benin Gospel values. Benin priests marked the nation's history. And the dynamism of both the faithful and clergy of Benin is also evident at the Universal Church

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As white settlers and pioneers moved westward in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, some of the first to settle the Indiana territory, near the Ohio border, were members of the Religious Society of Friends (the Quakers). Many of these Quakers focused on social reforms, especially the anti-slavery movement, as they fled the slave-holding states like the Carolinas. Less discussed in Indiana’s history is the impact Quakerism also had in the movement for women’s rights. This case study of two of the founding members of the Indiana Woman’s Rights Association (later to be renamed the Indiana Woman’s Suffrage Association), illuminates the influences of Quakerism on women’s rights. Amanda M. Way (1828-1914) and Mary Frame (Myers) Thomas, M.D. (1816-1888) practiced skills and gained opportunities for organizing a grassroots movement through the Religious Society of Friends. They attained a strong sense of moral grounding, skills for conducting business meetings, and most importantly, developed a confidence in public speaking uncommon for women in the nineteenth century. Quakerism propelled Way and Thomas into action as they assumed early leadership roles in the women’s rights movement. As advocates for greater equality and freedom for women, Way and Thomas leveraged the skills learned from Quakerism into political opportunities, resource mobilization, and the ability to frame their arguments within other ideological contexts (such as temperance, anti-slavery, and education).

The mendicant friars, especially the Dominicans and the Franciscans, made an enormous impact in thirteenth-century Spain influencing almost every aspect of society. In a revolutionary break from the Church’s past, these religious orders were deeply involved in earthly matters while preaching the Gospel to the laity and producing many of the greatest scholars of the time. Furthermore, the friars reshaped the hierarchy of the Church, often taking up significant positions in the episcopate. They were prominent in the establishment of the Inquisition in Aragon and at the same time they played a major part in interfaith relations between Jews, Muslims and Christians. In addition, they were key contributors in the transformation of urban life, becoming an essential part of the fabric of late medieval cities, while influencing policies of monarchs such as James I of Aragon and Ferdinand III of Castile. Their missions in the towns and their educational role, as well as their robust associations with the papacy and the crown, often raised criticism and lead to internal tensions and conflict with other clergymen and secular society. They were to be both widely admired and the subjects of biting literary satire. As this collection demonstrates, the story of medieval Spain cannot possibly be fully told without mention of the critical role of the friars.

This chapter discusses how New York Episcopalians shared the same zeal as Baptists, Presbyterians, and Methodists for missionary work. It mentions Rev. John Henry Hobart, the third Episcopal bishop of New York, who greatly expanded the church's missionary efforts during his tenure. It also highlights Hobart's efforts that made it possible for the Episcopal Diocese of New York to train and sponsor dozens of missionary priests and deacons in western New York during the 1820s and 1830s. The chapter reviews selected reports prepared by Episcopal missionaries to the Education and Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New York. It covers statistical information, such as the number of communicants and their monetary offerings to the church and describes some difficulties that were unique to Episcopal missionaries.

Chapter 1 presents the early life experiences of Sarah Breedlove and their influences in shaping Madam C. J. Walker’s identity, sense of responsibility to others, and philanthropic giving. Her philanthropy began to form when she was a poor, widowed migrant moving around the South dependent upon a robust philanthropic network of black civil society institutions and black women who cared for her during the most difficult period of her life. The chapter shows how she was socialized into respectability, racial uplift ideology, generosity, and philanthropic giving by a group of St. Louis black churchwomen and clubwomen, whose support and mentoring enabled her to change her life course. In outlining her early membership and involvement with key networks of women, including washerwomen, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church’s Mite Missionary Society, and the Court of Calanthe fraternal order, the chapter demonstrates the formation of Madam Walker’s moral imagination as the foundation for her philanthropic life. It situates Walker within the culture of the AME Church, which immersed her in faith, black history, self-help and racial uplift ideologies, education, activism, and internationalism. In the process, the chapter reveals Walker’s formation of a moral imagination that integrated business and philanthropy, embraced particular causes, and forged diverse means of giving.

Abstract This chapter examines the Episcopal Church and the Black community after the Civil War, as many southern Black people left the church when no longer forced to attend it. It discusses the Freedmen’s Commission and educational endeavors, Black congregations and leadership, the emigration and mission in Haiti, the movement for a “racial episcopate,” and the development of relationships between white Episcopalian supporters and Black Episcopalian leaders and communities in the context of the racial paternalism of the church and the scientific racism growing in American society at large. Important figures include George Freeman Bragg, James Solomon Russell, James Theodore Holly, and Alexander Crummell.

As the Anglican church in the United States after the Revolutionary War, the Episcopal Church was forced to reconcile its inheritance as a form of religious establishment with its status as one denomination among many in a pluralistic setting. Over the course of the nineteenth century, the church found its place within the unofficial Protestant establishment that dominated the nation’s educational and philanthropic life and shaped its public mores. Episcopalians took a leading role in the Social Gospel movement, even as their church became the preferred religious affiliation of the ruling classes. In this way, Episcopalianism’s establishmentarian impulses continued to find expression well into the twentieth century. Those who led the Episcopal Church following the Second World War were shaped by this sensibility but recognized that the church must find new ways of relating to a rapidly changing society.