Bausch addresses such movements as new age, fundamentalism, and "end-of-the world mania." He examines both the negative and positive aspects of these movements by demonstrating how a weakened church faces these challenges.
The Standing, as it came to be called, is but one of the stories that Jim Naughton skillfully weaves together as he examines the issues that can divide parents and children, husbands and wives, priests and the laity, Rome and America.
In A Church in Crisis: Pathways Forward, Martin offers a detailed look at the growing hostility to the Catholic Church and its teaching.
Crisis and Challenge in the Roman Catholic Church explores the historical, theological, and ethical dimensions of the current issues and challenges facing the Catholic Church and offers constructive hope for reformation.
This groundbreaking book offers an analysis not just of the church's immediate troubles but of less visible, more powerful forces working below the surface of an institution that provides a spiritual identity for 65 million Americans and ...
This collection of essays explores the historical background and present ecclesial situation, explaining the dramatic shift in attitude on the part of contemporary Catholics in the U.S. and Europe.
In the many books and articles written on this subject, authors have tried to point the blame one way or another. Turmoil and Truth takes a different approach.
With this exposé, the Boston Globe presents the single most comprehensive account of the cover-ups, hush money and manipulation used by the Catholic Church to keep its history of sexual abuse secret.
" Drawing upon his unparalleled knowledge of how the Church works, both in America and in Rome, Weigel exposes the patterns of dissent and self-deception that became entrenched in seminaries, among priests, and ultimately among the bishops ...
This collection of essays explores the historical background and present ecclesial situation, explaining the dramatic shift in attitude on the part of contemporary Catholics in the U.S. and Europe.
The best-selling novelist and author of Confessions of a Parish Priest and The Catholic Imagination challenges analysts and the media on images of a deprived, immature and frustrated priesthood, and offers a portrait of the priesthood today ...