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Church and Culture Since Vatican II, published for the Pontifical Council for Culture, is a valuable introduction to the new dialogue the Church seeks with the world's diverse cultures. This volume of essays discusses the Church's efforts to seriously probe the ethics of the institutions, structures, policies and social forces shaping contemporary society, and includes excerpts from the various documents that fostered the Pontifical Council.
From a theoretical perspective, Herve Carrier, Executive Secretary of the Pontifical Council, and Bernard Lambert, O.S.B., examine how the Church should accommodate changing conceptions of culture. Marcos McGrath, C.S.C., Archibishop of Panama, and Juan C. Scannone, S.J., describe the experiences of the Latin American Church in dealing with dramatic cultural, social and political changes. J. Bryan Hehir, Associate Secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference, and Remi de Roo, Bishop of Victoria, analyze the American and Canadian bishops' treatment of such volatile policy issues as the morality of nuclear war and the structural disorders that induce economic crisis.
“This book bears eloquent testimony to the centrality of culture in contemporary Catholic thinking. The issues involved are multiple and complex…. It provides an excellent tool for those who wish to address the theme of Church and culture.” —Canadian Catholic Review
"This is an important book for persons wishing to get a sense of what is happening in what most Protestants (and Roman Catholics) until recently considered the authoritarian, conservative, unchanging Roman Catholic Church. It is also important reading for Christians who are concerned with issues involved in evangelization." —Missiology
"It is to the credit of the editor, Msgr. Joseph Gremillion, that the difficult task of systematizing such complexity has been achieved with remarkable success. Undoubtedly, this is due to the methodical way in which the detailed analyses of each contributor are grasped in their interdependence and sythesized into Unity. This becomes evident after a second and more careful reading." —Journal of Loyola School of Theology
"This book looks at the way the Catholic Churches in North America and Latin America have been interacting with culture since Vatican II's 1965 Constitution on the Church in the modern world." —National Bulletin on Liturgy
Joseph Gremillion (d.1994) was the Director of the Institute for Pastoral and Social Ministry at the University of Notre Dame.