The Catholic World articles from March 1993

The Catholic World archives from March 1993

Counting the returnees. (Catholics) (Cover Story)
March 1, 1993... The return of millions of Catholics to active practice is good news for the church. As other contributors to this issue demonstrate, new programs serve the needs of returning Catholics. But new programs and new behavior are not thee same thing....

Reconciling the alienated Catholic. (Cover Story)
March 1, 1993... For each alienated Catholic there is a unique and personal story and journey. The diversity of programs and processes of reconciliation available to the alienated are a blessing, because they offer the possibility of a reconciling process...

Coming home: a feminist returns to the Church.
March 1, 1993... Friends sometimes ask me how I can even consider being a Catholic and continue to call myself a feminist. Writing this article has helped me answer that - for them, and for myself. I grew up as a devout Catholic and even considered the idea...

Recovering from our religious past. (Cover Story)
March 1, 1993... Some of our experiences in our religious past were hurtful or abusive. Some were positive, life-affirming, and nurturant. The hurts, abuses, and losses of our religious past can turn to bitterness as we remember them later. Actually, bitterness...

Reconciliation: the re-membering church process.
March 1, 1993... In the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults one can find a number of ritual orders designed to respond to a variety of living situations. There is a collection of rites for initiating unbaptized persons into the Catholic faith community....

Ministering to "absent" Catholics: some resources. (Bibliography)
March 1, 1993... Some important books and programs have appeared in recent years on the "alienated" or "inactive" Catholic, those we have called "absent" Catholics in our title. There now exist valuable resources for people who wish to begin this kind of...

Fundamentalisms Observed.
March 1, 1993... Many educated Americans, protected by geographical, social, and economic barriers, have little understanding of the religious passions and social concerns of those Christian believers labeled as "fundamentalists." Too often they have remained...

Salvation Outside the Church? Tracing the History of the Catholic Response.
March 1, 1993... In a cemetery at Still River, MA is a tombstone with the Latin inscription EXTRA ECCLESIAM NULLA SALUS (No Salvation Outside the Church). The grave is that of Father Leonard Feeney (1897-1978), a much-published poet and essayist, whom some of...

Speaking of Diversity: Language and Ethnicity in Twentieth Century America.
March 1, 1993... In recent decades, words like "cultural diversity," "pluralism"' and "multi-culturalism"have increasingly dominated our vocabulary as the issues to which such language refers have escalated in social and political prominence. Virtually every...

A Woman Styled Bold: The Life of Cornelia Connelly, 1809-1879.
March 1, 1993... Kenneth L. Woodward, in Making Saints: How the Catholic Church Determines Who Becomes a Saint, Who Doesn't, and Why (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), devotes most of his chapter eight to the subject of this biography, Cornelia Connelly. He...

Aspects of sometime Catholicism.
March 1, 1993... Those who are alienated from the church - those whom I call sometime Catholics - are the second largest religious grouping in the United States. They are everywhere, and they are as varied as active Catholics. Approximately half of them return...

Dear Friend:. (open letter to alienated Catholics)
March 1, 1993... I would like to speak with you from my heart. No small part of the loss your alienation has cost both of us is that we, who share the same faith, cannot speak together and be for one another. I respect and take seriously the reasons for...