Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction xvii

1 Inter-Ecclesial Relations and the Public Square: Bishops versus Religious Orders between Vatican II and the Post-Vatican II Era 1

2 Church and World in Pope Francis's Ecclesiological Shift: Evolution or Crisis of the New Ecclesial Movements? 25

3 Beyond the Paradigm "Hegemony or Persecution": The Church Facing Pluralism 46

4 Prophetic Church and Established Church: Pope Francis and the Legacy of the Constantinian Age 67

5 An Interrupted Reception of Gaudium et Spes: The Church and the Modern World in American Catholicism 94

6 Ecclesiology of Mercy: A Vision for the Church in the Twenty-First Century 123

Conclusion 149

Bibliography 154

Index 158