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Priesthood and Politics in the Nineteenth Century: The Turbulent Career of Thomas Mcdonnell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

Judith F. Champ
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THE CONSEQUENCE of the Cisapline attempt to ‘grapple with the social and intellectual transformation of the modern world” and to bring about a ‘revision of the pyramidal structure of the Tridentine Church” was the greater assimilation of English Catholics into contemporary society. Encouraged by a new sense of freedom, clergy and laity participated more actively in English public life’ and dismantled much of the closed élite community of the recusant period. This led to a brief phase in which both clergy and laity exercised their new-found freedoms, but which was dogged by disputes. Arguments raged between liberalism and authority, and between sectarian ideals and non-denominational activities. They were eventually resolved in a restoration, by 1850, of the pyramidal structure of the Tridentine Church, in which the role of the laity was subject to the authority and guidance of the clergy.

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British Catholic History , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , May 1987 , pp. 289 - 303
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© 1986 Trustees of the Catholic Record Society and individual contributors

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