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2. Pope Francis and the fourth era of the Catholic Church’s engagement with science.

Author

Peppard, Christiana Z.

Subjects
CATHOLIC Church doctrines, RELIGION & science, SUSTAINABLE development, ENVIRONMENTALISM & religion, RELIGION
Abstract

Pope Francis’s ecology encyclical, Laudato Si’, is an occasion to reconsider the Catholic Church’s myriad forms of engagement with modern science over the past four centuries. Four broad categories can chronologically and conceptually represent key phases in the Roman Catholic Church’s developing relationship to modern science. The first three are: how the Church coped with the rise of astronomy and physics in the 16th to 18th centuries; the era of geology and evolutionary theory in the 19th through early 20th centuries; and the era of global, life-altering technologies in the mid- to late 20th century. The scientific advances in each of these periods generated legacies for our current era of ecology and sustainability. It is this fourth phase that is represented by the new papal encyclical. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2015
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3. The Mediation of the Distinction of 'Religion' and 'Politics' by the UK Press on the Occasion of Pope Benedict XVI's State Visit to the UK.

Author

Crossley, James and Harrison, Jackie

Subjects
RELIGION, PRACTICAL politics, LIBERALISM, MASS media industry
Abstract

One feature of modern political liberalism is its acceptance of the superiority of secular political reasoning over faith-based reasoning where matters of practical politics are concerned. The distinction religion/politics has become a defining feature of modern political liberalism. We examined how this distinction was mediated by the UK national press through a case study of its reporting of Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK in 2010. The case study evaluates the following four propositions: (1) 'religion' is benign and relevant to 'politics'; (2) 'religion' is malign and relevant to 'politics'; (3) 'religion' is assumed to be irrelevant to 'politics' but is dismissed positively; and (4) 'religion' is regarded as irrelevant to 'politics' but is dismissed negatively. We conclude there is a dominant shared assumption in the UK press supporting propositions two and three: that religion is a good thing when it conforms to a pre-existing narrative of political liberalism and a bad thing when it does not and that religion was judged in terms of its 'political' values rather than in terms of its 'religious' values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2015
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