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18 - Cultural Catholicism

from Part III - The Many Faces of Catholicism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2021

Margaret M. McGuinness
Affiliation:
La Salle University, Philadelphia
Thomas F. Rzeznik
Affiliation:
Seton Hall University, New Jersey
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In the opening decades of the twenty-first century, the matter of who stays Catholic, and how, has become one of the most important questions in American Catholicism. Research about Catholics going their own way captured the attention of the public in general and Catholic leadership in particular, and focused on the notable drop-off in participation in Catholic ritual life, an increasing political independence of the laity from the wishes of Catholic bishops, a widespread abhorrence at the continuing revelations of clerical sexual abuse and episcopal cover-up, and enduring resistance toward active church involvement from post–Vatican II generations.

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Print publication year: 2021

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Bullivant, Stephen. Mass Exodus: Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America Since Vatican II. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Carroll, Colleen. The New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy. Chicago: Loyola Press, 2002.Google Scholar
Dillon, Michele. Postsecular Catholicism: Relevance and Renewal. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.Google Scholar
Greeley, Andrew. The Catholic Imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.Google Scholar
John Paul, II. Redemptoris Missio: On the Permanent Validity of the Church’s Missionary Mandate, www.vatican.vaGoogle Scholar
McCarty, Robert J. and Vitek, John M.. Going, Going, Gone: The Dynamics of Disaffiliation in Young Catholics. Winona: St. Mary’s Press, 2018.Google Scholar
Smith, Christian, Longest, Kyle, Hill, Jonathan, and Christoffersen, Kari. Young Catholic America: Emerging Adults In, Out of, and Gone from the Church. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
White, Michael and Corcoran, Tom. Rebuilt: Awakening the Faithful, Reaching the Lost, and Making Church Matter. Notre Dame: Ave Maria Press, 2013.Google Scholar

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