Catholicism and Citizenship

Massimo Faggioli is professor in the department of theology and religious studies at Villanova University. He is an internationally established scholar in the area of Vatican II and the papacy especially, and a renowned public commentator on church affairs. He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II (edited with Catherine Clifford, 2023). Among his books with Liturgical Press are The Legacy and Limits of Vatican II in an Age of Crisis (2025); Catholicism and Citizenship: Political Cultures of the Church in the Twenty-First Century (2017); Sorting Out Catholicism: A Brief History of the New Ecclesial Movements (2014); Pope John XXIII: The Medicine of Mercy (2014); and True Reform: Liturgy and Ecclesiology in Sacrosanctum Concilium (2012).

"With this book, Massimo Faggioli cements his reputation as his generation's premier interpreter of the relationship between American Catholics and the Church in Rome. He is incisive, insightful, and unfailingly constructive in his observations."Cathleen Kaveny, Libby Professor of Law and Theology, Boston College

• Contents  List of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Inter-Ecclesial Relations and the Public Square: Bishops versus Religious Orders between Vatican II and the Post–Vatican II Era2. Church and World in Pope Francis’s Ecclesiological Shift: Evolution or Crisis of the New Ecclesial Movements?3. Beyond the Paradigm “Hegemony or Persecution”: The Church Facing Pluralism4. Prophetic Church and Established Church: Pope Francis and the Legacy of the Constantinian Age5. An Interrupted Reception of Gaudium et Spes: The Church and the Modern World in American Catholicism6. Ecclesiology of Mercy: A Vision for the Church in the Twenty-First CenturyConclusionBibliographyIndex