by Joseph Boenzi, SDB

Subjects:

• Renewing the Salesian Constitutions
• Updating: Trends and Time-Lines
• The Call of Vatican II
• Experimentation, Crisis, Bewilderment
• New Confidence and New Constitutions
• Chastity and Renewal
• Analysis of Salesian Texts on Chastity
• Tradition and Chastity in the Constitutions of 1966
• Chastity treated as “Vow”
• Chastity in the 1972 Constitutions
• Closing Reflections on the Constitutions of 1972
• Following the Chaste Christ: Constitutions of 1984
• Assessing the “Tone” of the Constitutional Changes
• Conclusion