Word: catholicization
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Who could have guessed that the bishops were listening? It wasn't just the crimes; it was the attitude. Catholics have been enduring tragic sex scandals on and off since 1985. What has shocked them for the past four months has been the news reports and court documents that confirmed...
And an entire spectrum of Catholic laity has responded. Voice of the Faithful, which wants to turn the church into a representative democracy, is only the most radical. Just a few miles away, a more moderate Boston faction annoyed Bernard Cardinal Law recently by suggesting the creation of an independent...
And now the movement appears to have picked up what some might consider the unlikeliest partisans of all. This week the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops will meet in Dallas, charged by Pope John Paul II with arriving at a set of norms on clerical sexual abuse. In preparation...
But in addition to the charter's muscular response to abuse, there is a subtler but equally important message about the treatment of the American Catholic laity. The issue arises twice in the document. The bishops mandate the establishment of clergy-review boards to advise each diocesan bishop on abuse...
By the beginning of this year the American church had hit a classic impasse. The majority of U.S. Catholics clearly--but quietly--favored some kind of power sharing. When polled in 1999, reports Catholic University's D'Antonio, 65% of the "high-commitment Catholics" supported "more democratic decision making" at...