Uncharted Territory: The American Catholic Church at the United Nations, 1946-1972
Uncharted Territory: The American Catholic Church at the United Nations, 1946-1972
by Joseph S. Rossi S.J. and Joseph S Rossi
Catholic University of America Press, 2006 Cloth: 978-0-8132-1456-6 | eISBN: 978-0-8132-1651-5 Library of Congress Classification BX1406.3.R67 2006 Dewey Decimal Classification 261.8708828273
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Uncharted Territory chronicles the groundbreaking attempt by the National Catholic Welfare Conference (NCWC) to mold the United Nations in the image of a Catholic world order through the NCWC Office for UN Affairs.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
CHAPTER
1. CHARTING A CATHOLIC PRESENCE AT THE UN:
1946-1947 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. THE THEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF THE NCWC'S PROJECT AT
THE UNITED NATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
3. HUMAN RIGHTS: THE UN OFFICE'S FOUNDATION
CATHOLIC PRINCIPLES I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
4. THE COMMISSION AND THE UN OFFICE: CATHOLIC
PRINCIPLES II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
5. RESPECT AND RECOGNITION AT THE UN . . . . . . . . . . .200
6. THE EAST-WEST CONFLICT: RESPONSE OF THE UN OFFICE AND
THE NCWC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
7. THE STATUS OF WOMEN: THE UN OFFICE AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS. . 297
8. A RELATIONSHIP TRANSFORMED: THE UN OFFICE AND THE NCWC
(1946-1964). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
9. D¿NOUEMENT: 1967-72 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
EPILOGUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .440
APPENDICES A-E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .443
BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .465