Arthur Lenti – “The Bosco-Gastaldi Conflict (1872-82), Part I” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”

The conflict between Archbishop Lawrence Gastaldi and Don Bosco may at first sight appear to have been, to put a facile contemporary label on it, a typical confrontation between institution and charism.

It was indeed a clash between episcopal authority as claimed by an ordinary and the freedom sought by the founder of a new (and different) religious congregation. But the confrontation should be seen as an event within a particular moment in history and as deriving its specific character from it.

INDEX

• General Introduction
• SECTION ONE: LAWRENCE GASTALDI-A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
  • Introduction
  • I. Lawrence Gastaldi’s Early Life to His Appointment as Bishop of Saluzzo (1815-1867)
  • II. Lawrence Gastaldi, Bishop of Saluzzo (1867-1871)
  • III. Lawrence Gastaldi, Archbishop of Turin (1871-1883)
• 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
  • 1. Antecedents
  • 2. Lawrence Gastaldi Archbishop-Initial Estrangement
  • 3. Hardening of Gastaldi’s Position
  • 4. Clash over the Approval of the Constitutions (1873-1874)
  • 5. Trials and Tribulations of the Approval: The First Unsuccessful Presentation
• Conclusion

Reference time period: 1872 – 1882

Reference institution:
Institute of Salesian Studies