The Bosco-Gastaldi Conflict (1872-82) – Part 1

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by Arthur J. Lenti, SDB

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Subjects:

  • 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