The Bosco-Gastaldi Conflict (1872-82), Part II

The Bosco Gastaldi Conflict Part II

Introduction: Establishing a Framework
Part I. The Bosco-Gastaldi Conflict from the Approval of the Salesian Constitutions to Archbishop
Fissore’s Failed Mediation (May 1874 – February 1875)
Recalling the Issues in Context
Initial Action by the Protagonists: Renewed Recourse To Rome
The Planned Spiritual Retreat for School Teachers
An Incident Regarding the Giving of the Clerical Habit
Don Bosco’s Acceptance of Diocesan Seminarians and
New Appeals to Rome
Further Episodes and Don Bosco’s Appeals to Rome
Archbishop Fissore’s Mediation
Part II. Developments and Episodes in the Years 1875-77 Leading to the Break
Don Bosco’s Petition for More Extended Privileges
The Work of Mary Help of Christians (Sons of Mary) and the Salesian Cooperators-and Gastaldi’s
Opposition
Don Bosco’s Supposed “Suspension”
Gastaldi’s Threatened Resignation
Don Bosco’s Publication of Graces of Mary Help of Christians
Archbishop Federico Aneiros’ Visit
Former Diocesan Seminarian Father Angelo Maria Rocca
Father Giovanni Perenchio and Father Giuseppe Lazzero
Part III. The Final Phase Of The Bosco-Gastaldi Connict (1878-1882)
The Five Anonymous Anti-Gastaldi Pamphlets
The Bonetti-Gastaldi Confrontation: Origin and Early Development to Father Bonetti’s Suspension (1878-1879)
Development of the Bonetti-Gastaldi Controversy with Don Bosco’s Involvement (1879-1880)
The Bosco-Gastaldi Conflict after the Appearance of the Defamatory Pamphlets to the Conclusion of the Bonetti Affair and the Concordia (1880-1882)
Concluding Comments on the Final Phase of the Conflict
General Concluding Comments and Evaluation
Bibliographical Note

The Bosco-Gastaldi Conflict (1872-82), Part I

The Bosco Gastaldi Conflict (1872 82) Part I

General Introduction
Nature and Serious Character of the Conflict
Length and Complexity of the Conflict
Method Employed in the Present Study
SECTION ONE: LAWRENCE GASTALDI-A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Introduction
Lawrence Gastaldi’s Early Life to His Appointment as Bishop of Saluzzo (1815-1867)
Family, Education, and Priesthood
Rosmini’s Institute of Charity and Missionary Activity in England
Pre-Episcopal Period in the Turin Archdiocese
Five Years of Activity as Preacher and Writer
Father Gastaldi and Don Bosco
Lawrence Gastaldi, Bishop of Saluzzo (1867-1871)
The Man and the Priest
Gastaldi’s Ministry as Bishop of Saluzzo
The Setting
The Pastoral Visitation
The First Vatican Council
New Pastoral Goals and Illness
Lawrence Gastaldi, Archbishop of Turin (1871-1883)
Appointment
Facing a Difficult Situation
The Struggle for the Exequatur
Gastaldi the Reformer-Pastor Bishop
Rosminian Influence
Gastaldi’s Conception of Episcopal Office
Gastaldi’s Personality and Character
Gastaldi’s Collaborators
Reform of the Clergy and Church Life: Synods
Assessment of Church Life
Synod of 1873
Synod of 1874
Synod of 1878
liturgical Calendars
Reform of Structures for the Education and Formation of the Clergy
The School of Theology and the Theological Faculty
Reform of Diocesan Seminaries
Reform of the Convitto Ecclesiastico and of the Teaching of Moral Theology
Archbishop Gastaldi’s Pastoral Activity among the People
New Parishes
Preaching and Religious Instruction
Doctrinal Teaching
Pastoral Visitation
The Social Question and the Catholic Lay Movement
Archbishop Gastaldi’s Relationships with Religious
Marie-Louise-Angelique Clarac
Francesco Faa di Bruno
Archbishop Gastaldi’s Death
SECTION TWO: FIRST PHASE OF THE CONFRONTATION: ARCHBISHOP GASTALDl’S CLASH WITH DON BOSCO OVER THE SPIRIT OF THE SALESIAN SOCIETY AND THE APPROVAL OF ITS CONSTITUTIONS
Antecedents
Initial Phases in the Development of the Salesian Constitutions and the Decretum Laudis
New Move for Approval and Archbishop Riccardi’ s Opposition
Approval of the Society Not of the Constitutions
Lawrence Gastaldi Archbishop-Initial Estrangement
Hardening of Gastaldi’s Position
Process for the Definitive Approval of the Constitutions Begun
Gastaldi’s “Declaration of Intent”
Clash over the Approval of the Constitutions (1873-1874)
Gastaldi’s Conditions for His Support
Gas taldi s Brief Presented in Rome: Objections and Demands
Trials and Tribulations of the Approval: The First Unsuccessful Presentation
Petition for Definitive Approval
Further Incidents in a Deteriorating Situation
The Bianchi-Vitelleschi Thirty-Eight I Twenty-Eight Animadversiones (Critical Observations) on the Text of 1873
Don Bosco’s Response to the Animadversiones (Critical Observations)
Don Bosco’s Second Petition, Further Revisions, and Definitive Approval
Conclusion