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Abandonment defined thirty-three years of correspondence between Marie de l'Incarnation and the son she had left behind in favor of religious life
This book investigates the religious identity and authority of Stephen Colbert and his character Stephen Colbert. By exploring Colbert's position as a lay catechist and televised comedian, this book examines how Catholicism shapes Colbert's experiences, and how Colbert and his persona nuance American Catholicism and the polarized American religious landscape.
Between individual Catholics and a global institution, thousands of local parishes remake Catholicism each day. With fresh data and sociological methods, this book shows how parishes are shaped by community, geography, and authority; how parishes respond to diversity and change; and how parishes worship and educate for the future of Catholicism.
A collection of essays examining Catholicism in the United States from a variety of perspectives. The volume is divided into three sections: "'Beyond the Parish,' 'Presence in the World,' and 'Prophetic Catholicism'." Essay topics include: anti-Catholicism, women religious, Latino/a Catholicism, Catholicism and Popular Culture, and Rural Catholcism.
A collection of essays examining Catholicism in the United States from a variety of perspectives. The volume is divided into three sections: "'Beyond the Parish,' 'Presence in the World,' and 'Prophetic Catholicism'." Essay topics include: anti-Catholicism, women religious, Latino/a Catholicism, Catholicism and Popular Culture, and Rural Catholcism.
The Bread of the Strong investigates the origins, development, and migration of a Roman Catholic retreat movement founded by Onesime Lacouture, SJ. Although suppressed in its original host region of Quebec, it migrated to the United States, thanks largely to John Hugo's advocacy, and critically influenced Dorothy Day's spiritual development.
A collection of essays tracing the development of selected Catholic lay apostolates in the decades before and after the Second Vatican Council. Contributors demonstrate how Catholic Action that functioned as an auxiliary of the American bishops gave way to groups more inclined to challenge episcopal authority during the 1960s and 1970s.
A biography of experimental poet and spiritual seeker Robert Lax, who inspired Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac and many others. Using information and stories drawn from journal entries, letters, interviews and the author's personal recollections, the book chronicles the development of Lax's distinctive poetic style and a spontaneous, spiritual approach to life he called pure act.
Recounts and analyzes Paul Hanly Furfey's contribution to Catholic social thought and practice in the fields of sociology, social work, and higher education across the twentieth-century in his roles as priest, scholar, educator, and social reformer.
Contrary to Catholicism's commitment to mercy, today's dominant global economic and cultural system, neoliberal capitalism, demands that life be led as a series of sacrifices to the market. Central is treatment of four neoliberal-perpetuated and -exacerbated crises: environmental destruction, slum proliferation, mass incarceration, and mass deportation.
A portrait of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement in New York City through photographs taken in 1955 by Vivian Cherry, a documentary photographer, accompanied by excerpts of Dorothy Day's writings selected and edited by her granddaughter, Kate Hennessy.
This volume aims to promote informed, compassionate dialogue about issues of sexual diversity within the Catholic community of faith, as well as in the broader civic worlds that the Roman Catholic Church and Catholic people inhabit; it contains a series of essays from perspectives of ministry, ethics, theology and law.
This volume aims to promote informed, compassionate dialogue about issues of sexual diversity within the Catholic community of faith, as well as in the broader civic worlds that the Roman Catholic Church and Catholic people inhabit; it contains a series of essays from perspectives of ministry, ethics, theology and law.
This volume gathers together the reflections of Catholic and former Catholic LGBTQ persons, their friends, family members, and others, concerning experiences of sexual diversity and the church. It provides an opportunity for a wide audience, inside and outside the Catholic community, to experience the richness of contemporary Catholic faith and practice.
This volume gathers together the reflections of Catholic and former Catholic LGBTQ persons, their friends, family members, and others, concerning experiences of sexual diversity and the church. It provides an opportunity for a wide audience, inside and outside the Catholic community, to experience the richness of contemporary Catholic faith and practice.
Working Alternatives explores economic life from a multidisciplinary and humanistic perspective, with a particular eye on religions' implications in practices of work, management, supply, production, remuneration, and exchange. Its contributors draw upon historical, ethical, business, and theological conversations considering the sources of economic sustainability and justice.
Working Alternatives explores economic life from a multidisciplinary and humanistic perspective, with a particular eye on religions' implications in practices of work, management, supply, production, remuneration, and exchange. Its contributors draw upon historical, ethical, business, and theological conversations considering the sources of economic sustainability and justice.
Between individual Catholics and a global institution, thousands of local parishes remake Catholicism each day. With fresh data and sociological methods, this book shows how parishes are shaped by community, geography, and authority; how parishes respond to diversity and change; and how parishes worship and educate for the future of Catholicism.
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