The Official Catholic Directory, Anno Domini 2002, Part II.
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 28,76 MB
Release : 2002
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ISBN : 9780872173613
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 28,76 MB
Release : 2002
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ISBN : 9780872173613
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 2001
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ISBN : 9780872174030
Author : Kathleen Sprows Cummings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1107141168
For the first time, this volume takes a global and comparative approach to the lived local history of Vatican II.
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Page : 2522 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 2003
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Author : Stephen Bullivant
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Ex-church members
ISBN : 0198837941
In 1962, Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council with the prophecy that 'a new day is dawning on the Church, bathing her in radiant splendour'. Desiring 'to impart an ever increasing vigour to the Christian life of the faithful', the Council Fathers devoted particular attention to the laity, and set in motion a series of sweeping reforms. The most significant of these centred on refashioning the Church's liturgy--'the source and summit of the Christian life'--in order to make 'it pastorally efficacious to the fullest degree'. Over fifty years on, however, the statistics speak for themselves. In America, only 15% of cradle Catholics say that they attend Mass on a weekly basis; meanwhile, 35% no longer even tick the 'Catholic box' on surveys. In Britain, the signs are direr still. Of those raised Catholic, just 13% still attend Mass weekly, and 37% say they have 'no religion'. But is this all the fault of Vatican II, and its runaway reforms? Or are wider social, cultural, and moral forces primarily to blame? Catholicism is not the only Christian group to have suffered serious declines since the 1960s. If anything Catholics exhibit higher church attendance, and better retention, than most Protestant churches do. If Vatican II is not the cause of Catholicism's crisis, might it instead be the secret to its comparative success? Mass Exodus is the first serious historical and sociological study of Catholic lapsation and disaffiliation. Drawing on a wide range of theological, historical, and sociological sources, Stephen Bullivant offers a comparative study of secularization across two famously contrasting religious cultures: Britain and the USA.
Author : Bowker Editorial Staff
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Page : 2448 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 1996-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780835237598
Author : Congress (U S ) Joint Committee on Print
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 1266 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 2014-05-15
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Contains biographies of Senators, members of Congress, and the Judiciary. Also includes committee assignments, maps of Congressional districts, a directory of officials of executive agencies, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, web addresses, and other information.
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Release : 2011
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Author : Robert L. Anello, MSA
Publisher : Robert L. Anello
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1508676666
Fr. Eusèbe M. Ménard, O.F.M., was gifted with a visionary perspective regarding God's call to adults for ministry in the Catholic Church, specifically, priestly vocations. In the mid-1940s, Ménard proposed an innovative idea for training men called to serve God through the priesthood: college seminaries for "belated vocations." As he defined it, a man with a belated vocation had not heard God's call in his early years or, having heard it, did not or could not act upon it at that time. The events leading to the formation and development of Holy Apostles College & Seminary proved challenging and, at times, painful for those people who joined Ménard in this enterprise. Still, it appeared from the start that the "Hand of God" was truly at work in the concept, acquisition, and development of Holy Apostles. This study documents the founding and initial development of Holy Apostles and highlights several significant events from the first forty years of its service to the Catholic Church.
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Page : 422 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 1995
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