TY - BOOK ID - 143456556 TI - The Future of Catholicism in America AU - Avella, Steven M AU - Chinnici, Joseph P AU - Dinges, William D AU - Killen, Patricia O'Connell AU - Matovina, Timothy AU - O'Connell Killen, Patricia AU - Schuth, Katarina AU - Silk, Mark AU - Walsh, Andrew H AU - Wood, Richard L PY - 2019 SN - 9780231549431 0231549431 9780231191487 0231191480 9780231191494 0231191499 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Catholic Church KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143456556 AB - Catholics constitute the largest religious community in the United States. Yet most American Catholics have never known a time when their church was not embroiled in controversies over liturgy, religious authority, cultural change, and gender and sexuality. Today, these arguments are taking place against the backdrop of Pope Francis's progressive agenda and the resurgence of the clergy sexual abuse crisis. What is the future of Catholicism in America?This volume considers the prospects at a pivotal moment. Contributors-scholars from sociology, theology, religious studies, and history-look at the church's evolving institutional structure, its increasing ethnic diversity, and its changing public presence. They explore the tensions among members of the hierarchy, between clergy and laity, and along lines of ethnicity, immigration status, class, generation, political affiliation, and degree of religious commitment. They conclude that American Catholicism's future will be pluriform-reflecting the variety of cultural, political, ideological, and spiritual points of view that typify the multicultural, democratic society of which Catholics constitute so large a part. ER -