No Closure : : Catholic Practice and Boston's Parish Shutdowns / / John C. Seitz.
In 2004 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston announced plans to close or merge more than eighty parish churches. Scores of Catholics-28,000, by the archdiocese's count-would be asked to leave their parishes. The closures came just two years after the first major revelations of clergy sexual...
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Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Closings
- 1. The Pasts Living in People
- 2. Divergent Histories: Change and the Making of Resisters, 1950-2004
- 3. "What do we have?" Locales and Objects in the Hands of the People of God
- 4. "This is unrest territory:" Authority and Sacrifice in Resisters' Practice of the Parish
- 5. Openings
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index