Once upon a time, U.S. Catholics thought that when they referred to the church they meant the entire community, the people of God. Frank Harrison, bishop of Syracuse, New York, was hardly alone when he titled his 1965 pastoral letter We Are the Church. His people were surprised at first; they had used the phrase “the church” to refer to the ordained men who constitut (...)
November 23, 2007
Books
Vital Signs
American Catholics TodayNew Realities of Their Faith and Their ChurchWilliam V. D’Antonio, James D. Davidson, Dean R. Hoge, and Mary L. GautierRowman & Littlefield, $24.95, 214 pp.
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