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