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Aspects of Doctoral Research at the Maryvale International Catholic Institute (Volume Three) Aspects of Doctoral Research at the Maryvale International Catholic Institute (Volume Three) Edited by Andrew B. Morris Aspects of Doctoral Research at the Maryvale International Catholic Institute (Volume Three) Edited by Andrew B. Morris This book first published 2020 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2020 by Andrew B. Morris and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-5275-5774-X ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-5774-1 CONTENTS Acknowledgements ................................................................................... vii Preface ...................................................................................................... viii Contributor Profiles ..................................................................................... x Part 1: Maryvale International Institute of Higher Education and Catechesis Chapter One ................................................................................................. 2 Maryvale - Background and History Andrew B. Morris Chapter Two ................................................................................................ 6 Seven Theses - A Brief Introduction Andrew B. Morris Part 2: Three Empirical Case Studies Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 14 Diocesan Parish Stability Gwendolen Mary Adams Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 73 Voices of Young Adult American Catechumens Tamra Fromm Chapter Five ............................................................................................ 132 An Examination of the Sexual Moral Teaching of the Catholic Church in Light of Those Electing to Marry in the Catholic Tradition Christine Ward vi Contents Part 3: Textual Analysis and Commentary Chapter Six .............................................................................................. 180 Human Ecology in the Works of John Paul II and Benedict XVI José Ambrozic Chapter Seven .......................................................................................... 237 An Examination of Pope Benedict XVI’s Encyclical Deus Caritas Est Todd Amick Part 4: Catholic Hymnody and Spirituality Chapter Eight ........................................................................................... 268 Vernacular Hymnody in Catholic Liturgy Since the Second Vatican Council Ann Gleeson Chapter Nine ............................................................................................ 312 Aspects of Monasticism and the Rehabilitation of Offenders: Some Reflections of a Prison Chaplain Andrew Clark ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This is the third volume of edited research projects undertaken by doctoral students studying at the Maryvale International Catholic Institute of Higher Education and Catechesis in Birmingham since 2014 and whose awards were validated by Liverpool Hope University. The extracts in this volume are taken from the most recent studies completed between 2016 and 2019. May I record my thanks to all those who have generously allowed me to make use of their research, particularly Tamara Fromm whose work appears in this volume by permission of Wipf and Stock Publishers (www.wipfandstock.com). I am grateful to all those colleagues within the Institute who have assisted my preparation of research extracts in a variety of ways, and especially to Fr Edward Clare and Prof Mary Mills who were, respectively, Director of the Institute and Director of Postgraduate Research at the time when this project was first proposed. The help and support of Dr Birute Briliute, the recently appointed Dean of the Maryvale Institute, who has facilitated publication of this volume, is greatly appreciated. The brief description of the Institute’s background and history in part one of this book draws extensively on Beth Mulvey’s book ‘St Mary in the Valley - A History of Maryvale’ and also from the work of the unnamed authors of the various prospectus booklets issued by the Institute over the past ten years. I thank them all. Finally, I give my heartfelt thanks to my wife who has been so supportive of the editing task even though it has meant, on my part, a degree of neglect of her needs and that of my family. —Andrew B. Morris - Editor PREFACE Established at Old Oscott 1980, the Maryvale Institute is an International Catholic Centre of Further and Higher Education for Catechesis, Theology, Philosophy and Religious Education. It provides a variety of part-time and distance learning courses to the lay faithful, consecrated religious and ministers of the Roman Catholic Church. Maryvale’s degree programmes are accredited by external academic partners. Its Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Philosophy and its Master of Arts degree in Catholic Tradition are both validated by the Open University. In association with the Faculté Notre Dame of the Ecole Cathédrale in Paris, the Institute provides two ecclesiastical degrees courses, a Bachelor of Divinity and a Licence in Catechetics. The research programme conducted is in collaboration with Liverpool Hope University. The vast majority of students study for the award of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) – some at Master’s (M.Phil). To be accepted as a research student, applicants were required to meet the entry requirements of both Liverpool Hope and Maryvale. The first cohort, which included students from the USA as well as the UK, began their studies in 2009 and the first two to graduate did so in 2014. By the end of the 2018-19 academic year a total of twenty-four students have successfully completed their studies; twenty-two PhD and two MPhil awards. Others students will graduate during 2020-21. This book, the third in a series of research extracts, is concerned with the outcomes of that research programme. It seeks to both provide an overview of breadth of work by its students and their contribution to new knowledge in the area of Catholic Studies, a wide field including history, literature, philosophy, spirituality, theology - both pastoral and practical theology, evangelisation, catechesis, religious education and Newman studies. After briefly explaining the background to the Institute’s genesis, its development and the range of its current doctoral research programme, the book presents eight extracts. They are presented in three distinct groups. The first comprises three pieces of empirical research. The second is concerned with analyses and understanding of Church documents, papal writings and with religious spirituality. The third considers different aspects of current practices in respect of Catholic hymnody and, in a personal reflection, the pastoral application of spiritual friendship. Aspects of Doctoral Research at the Maryvale International Catholic ix Institute (Volume Three) Combining disparate research into a single manuscript has necessitated some adaption of the various original writing styles to ensure a measure of consistency in presentation while retaining individual writing styles. For example, I have, in some instances, omitted large sections of the original text in order to produce extracts of similar, though not identical, length, used UK English spelling and edited some of the more extensive footnotes. Nevertheless, I have kept, as far as possible, the student’s individual writing style while attempting to produce a degree of uniformity in presentation. In doing so I appreciate that my judgement and preferences may, in some cases, seem to prevail over that of the author, and for that I apologise. I trust it will not irritate academic or general readers, nor detract from the contents of individual extracts. I must thank all the graduates for their agreement in letting me undertake this task. I hope that they will be content with the compromises that I have made in editing their work which, I trust, in no way detract from the contents of their original contributions to their respective fields of study. Any errors or inaccuracies which may have resulted are my responsibility alone. Andrew B. Morris - Editor CONTRIBUTOR PROFILES José A. Ambrozic was born in Lima, Perú, and became a consecrated layman member of the Catholic Society of Apostolic Life (Sodalitium Christianae Vitae) in 1972. He has a License in Business Administration from Universidad de Lima (Perú), a Master’s Degree in Education with a concentration in Humanities from Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico). He was awarded a PhD by Liverpool Hope University/Maryvale in 2019. He worked for IBM (1975-1980) and founded Intelekt to partner IBM as an IT consultancy and providing the company with IT services (1989- 1994). As part of his service in the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, he has been Vicar General (2014-2016), superior in various communities and Assistant General of SCV for Apostolate, Temporal Affairs and Communications (various periods 1976-2019). He has served as Superior of the SCV community and Director of Camp Saint Malo Retreat Center in Denver (2003-2011), as Director of the Newman Center