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Shelf life.(The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture)(Book review)
IN 1935, a simple declaration by the cardinal archbishop of Boston was enough to doom what was otherwise a very popular bill establishing a state lottery. In Massachusetts today, a majority-Catholic state legislature defies the leadership of the Catholic Church even on crucial moral issues. What on earth happened to Boston Catholicism? In The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture (Encounter, 272 pp., $25.95), veteran Catholic journalist Philip F. Lawler does an excellent job getting to the bottom of how this breathtaking transformation took place.
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Many view the recent priest-sex-abuse scandals as a central cause of Catholicism's loss of moral credibility in Massachusetts. Lawler, however, sees the causality flowing in the opposite direction:
The sex-abuse scandal ... was not only aggravated but actually caused by the willingness of Church leaders to sacrifice the essential for the inessential: to build up the human institution even to the detriment of the divine mandate.... From the first days of the Catholic ascendancy, Church leaders in Boston experienced the temptation to ...
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