05214cam a2200673Ii 4500 ocn967982656 OCoLC 20200709060529.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 170110s2015 be a ob 000 0 eng d JSTOR eng rda pn JSTOR N$T 9789461662118 (electronic bk.) 9461662114 (electronic bk.) 9789462700277 9462700273 1451171 (N$T) (OCoLC)967982656 22573/ctt1jz0dqk JSTOR BV647.3 .I58 2015eb REL 067050 bisacsh 262 23 08.45 bcl MAIN The intimate : polity and the Catholic Church : laws about life, death and the family in so-called Catholic countries / Karel Dobbelaere & Alfonso Pérez-Agote, eds. Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2015] 1 online resource : illustrations. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Kadoc studies on religion, culture and society ; 15 Introduction / Karel Dobbelaere and Alfonso Perez-Agote -- Euthanasia and the Belgian Catholic world / Liliane Voye and Karel Dobbelaere -- "Marriage pour tous" : the same-sex marriage controversy in France / Celine Beraud and Philippe Portier -- The Italian Catholic Church and the artifcial-insemination referendum / Annalisa Frisina, Franco Garelli, Enzo Pace, and Roberto Scalon -- Ethical challenges of the Catholic Church in Portugal : the case of same-sex marriage / Helena Vilaca and Maria Joao Oliveira -- The Catholic Church faces ethical challenges in Spain : the regulation of abortion / Alfonso Perez-Agote, Jose Santiago and Antonio Montanes -- Comparative synthesis / Karel Dobbelaere, Alfonso Perez-Agote and Celine Beraud. Includes bibliographical references. "For centuries the Catholic Church was able to impose her ethical rules in matters related to the intimate, that is questions concerning life (from its beginning until its end) and te family in the so-called Catholic countries in Western Europe. When the polity started to introduce legislation that was in opposition to the Catholic ethic, the ecclesiastical authorities ad part of the population reacted. The media reported massive manifestations in France against same-sex marriages and in Spain against the de-penalization of abortion. In Italy the Episcopal Conference entered the political field in opposition to the relaxation of several restrictive legal rules concerning medically assisted procreation and exhorted the voters to abstain from voting so that the referendum did not obtain the necessary quorum. In Portugal, to the contrary, the Church made a "pact" with the prime minister so that the law on same-sex marriages did not include the possibility of adoption. And in Belgium the Episcopal Conference limited its actions to clearly expressing with religious, legal and anthropological arguments its opposition to such laws, which all other Episcopal Conferences did also. In this book, the authors analyse the full spectrum of the issue, including the emergence of such laws; the political discussions; the standpoints defended in the media by professionals; ethicists, and politicians; the votes in parliaments; the political interventions of the Episcopal Conferences. The authors also analyse the pro and con evaluations among the civil population of such actions by the Church. Finally, in comparative synthesis, they discuss the public positions taken by Pope Francis to evaluate if a change in Church policy might be possible in the near future"--Page four of cover. Print version record. Catholic Church. Catholic Church. fast (OCoLC)fst00531720 Christianity and politics Catholic Church. Church polity. Religion and politics. Christianity and politics. Kerk. gtt (NL-LeOCL)078557380 Politiek. gtt (NL-LeOCL)078630983 Politieke invloed. gtt (NL-LeOCL)078631505 Christianity and politics. fast (OCoLC)fst00859736 Christianity and politics Catholic Church. fast (OCoLC)fst01766759 Church polity. fast (OCoLC)fst00860884 Religion and politics. fast (OCoLC)fst01093842 RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ecclesiology bisacsh Electronic books. Dobbelaere, Karel, editor. Pérez-Agote, Alfonso, editor. Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (1970- ) Print version: Intimate. Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2015] 9789462700277 (OCoLC)907081056 KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society ; 15. (NL-LeOCL)269463453 (OCoLC)73632742 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1451171 EBSCOhost EBSC 1451171 92 N$T 57209 57209