The Catholic Church: What Everyone Needs to Know - Brossura

Allen Jr., John L.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0199975108 ISBN 13: 9780199975105

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2013

Riassunto

Roman Catholicism stands at a crossroads, a classic ''best of times, worst of times'' moment. On the one hand, the Catholic Church remains by far the largest branch of the worldwide Christian family, and is growing. Yet the Church has also been rocked by a series of scandals related to the sexual abuse of minors by clergy, and, even more devastating, a pattern of cover-up of that abuse by the church's authorities. The decade-long crisis has taken a massive financial toll, but the blow to both the internal morale and the external moral standing of the Catholic Church has been even steeper. The overall picture is of a Church with enormous residual strength and exciting future prospects, but also one facing steep internal and external challenges. The question of ''whither Catholicism'' is of vital public relevance, for believers and non-believers alike. In this book, John L. Allen, Jr., will offer an authoritative and accessible primer on the Church today.

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L'autore

John L. Allen Jr. is Senior Correspondent for the

Contenuti

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter One: The Catholic Church 101
• Chapter Two: Historical Highlights and Lowlights
• Chapter Three: The Church outside ''the Church''
• Chapter Four: The Life of the Mind
• Chapter Five: Worship
• Chapter Six: Angels, Demons and Saints
• Chapter Seven: Faith and Politics
• Chapter Eight: Catholicism and Sex
• Chapter Nine: Catholicism and Money
• Chapter Ten: Crisis and Scandal
• Chapter Eleven: Rome and America
• Chapter Twelve: New Frontiers
• Recommended Reading

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199975108
• ISBN 13: 9780199975105
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336