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The Catholic Labyrinth: Power, Apathy, and a Passion for Reform in the American
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The Catholic Labyrinth: Power, Apathy, and a Passion for Reform in the American Church Hardcover - 2013 - 1st Edition

by McDonough, Peter

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  • Title The Catholic Labyrinth: Power, Apathy, and a Passion for Reform in the American Church
  • Author McDonough, Peter
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 408
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 2013-07
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # I12J-00098
  • ISBN 9780199751181 / 0199751188
  • Weight 1.46 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.31 x 6.44 x 1.27 in (23.65 x 16.36 x 3.23 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Catholic
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Catholic Church - Doctrines, Conservatism - Religious aspects - Catholic
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012042894
  • Dewey Decimal Code 282.73

From the publisher

Sexual abuse scandals, declining attendance, a meltdown in the number of priests and nuns, the closing of many parishes and parochial schools--all have shaken American Catholicism. Yet conservatives have increasingly dominated the church hierarchy.

In The Catholic Labyrinth, Peter McDonough tells a tale of multiple struggles that animate various groups--the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, Voice of the Faithful, and the Leadership Roundtable chief among them--pushing to modernize the church. One contest pits reformers against those who back age-old standards of sexual behavior and gender roles. Another area of contention, involving efforts to maintain the church's far-flung operations in education, social services, and healthcare, raises constitutional issues about the separation of church and state. Once a sidebar to this debate, the bishops' campaign to control the terms of employment and access to contraceptives in church-sponsored ministries has fueled conflict further.

McDonough draws on behind-the-scenes documentation and personal interviews with leading reformers and "loyalists" to explore how both retrenchment and resistance to clericalism have played out in American Catholicism. Despite growing support for optional celibacy among priests, the ordination of women, and similar changes, and in the midst of numerous departures from the church, immigration and a lingering reaction against the upheavals of the sixties have helped sustain a popular traditionalism among "Catholics in the pews." So have the polemics of Catholic neoconservatives. These demographic and cultural factors--as well as the silent dissent of those who simply ignore rather than oppose the church's more regressive positions--have reinforced a culture of deference that impedes reform. At the same time, selective managerial improvements show promise of advancing incremental change.

Timely and incisive, The Catholic Labyrinth captures the church at a historical crossroads, as advocates for change struggle to reconcile religious mores with the challenges of modernity.

Media reviews

Citations

  • Choice, 02/01/2014, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 06/15/2013, Page 96
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/01/2013, Page 0

About the author

Twice a Fulbright fellow, Peter McDonough has also been a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow and a recipient of research grants from the German Marshall Fund, the National Science Foundation, and the Pew Endowment. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bangladesh and has taught for extended periods in Brazil and Ireland

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