What Happened to the Roman Catholic Church? What Now?

What Happened to the Roman Catholic Church? What Now?
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Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 1098387589
ISBN-13 : 9781098387587
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Book Synopsis What Happened to the Roman Catholic Church? What Now? by : Gabriel Moran

Download or read book What Happened to the Roman Catholic Church? What Now? written by Gabriel Moran and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Happened to the Roman Catholic Church? What Now? is a radical criticism of the Roman Catholic Church combined with some radical suggestions for dealing with its problems. The book is rooted in the tradition of the Church that the author draws upon in a creative way. The first three chapters trace the history of the Roman Catholic Church from 1945 to the crucial period of the 1960s. The remaining nine chapters examine various issues that surfaced after the partial reforms of the Second Vatican Council in 1962-65, The official Church's attitude on sexual issues has been a central problem but often it is a symptom of a structural problem of authority. By the mid-1970s, the Church had become badly split and the rift has never been healed. Millions of Roman Catholic who were disappointed at the direction that the Church took have ceased to be practicing members. Many people are skeptical about the Church's future. A positive attitude toward the Church that Pope Francis has generated has been largely obscured by the clergy sex-abuse scandal. This problem requires some profound examination of the structure of the Church. The author proposes a way to retain the function of priesthood while eliminating a clerical class. The last chapter of the book describes a democratic form of the Church which was not possible for most of history but is now both possible and necessary.


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