Renewal: How a New Generation of Faithful Priests and Bishops Is Revitalizing the Catholic Church

Renewal: How a New Generation of Faithful Priests and Bishops Is Revitalizing the Catholic Church
ISBN-10
1594037035
ISBN-13
9781594037030
Series
Renewal
Category
Social Science
Pages
248
Language
English
Published
2013-12-03
Publisher
Encounter Books
Authors
Christopher White, Anne Hendershott

Description

In the wake of the clergy abuse scandal of the last decade, many media commentators predicted the “end” of the Catholic priesthood. Demands for an end to celibacy, coupled with calls for women’s ordination, dominated discussions on the effectiveness of the Catholic Church in America. Renewal argues that rather than a decline of the priesthood and a diminishing influence of the Catholic Church, we are living in a time of transformation and revitalization. The aging generation of progressives that continues to lobby Church leaders to change Catholic teachings on reproductive rights, same-sex marriage and women's ordination is being replaced by younger men and women who are attracted to the Church because of the very timelessness of its teachings.

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