Download or read book Young Catholic America written by Christian Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Review at the Catholic Press Association Convention Studies of young American Catholics over the last three decades suggest a growing crisis in the Catholic Church: compared to their elders, young Catholics are looking to the Church less as they form their identities, and fewer of them can even explain what it means to be Catholic and why that matters. Young Catholic America, the latest book based on the groundbreaking National Study of Youth and Religion, explores a crucial stage in the life of Catholics. Drawing on in-depth surveys and interviews of Catholics and ex-Catholics ages 18 to 23--a demographic commonly known as early "emerging adulthood"--leading sociologist Christian Smith and his colleagues offer a wealth of insight into the wide variety of religious practices and beliefs among young Catholics today, the early influences and life-altering events that lead them to embrace the Church or abandon it, and how being Catholic affects them as they become full-fledged adults. Beyond its rich collection of statistical data, the book includes vivid case studies of individuals spanning a full decade, as well as insight into the twentieth-century events that helped to shape the Church and its members in America. An innovative contribution to what we know about religion in the United States and the evolving Catholic Church, Young Catholic America is the definitive source for anyone seeking to understand what it means to be young and Catholic in America today.

Download or read book Young Adult Catholics written by Dean R. Hoge and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do they take the pope's statements seriously? Do they attend Mass? Have significant numbers left for other churches? Do they want Catholic education for their children?".

Download or read book The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth written by Brian Singer-Towns and published by Saint Mary's Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference is an understandable and down-to-earth guide to all things Catholic. The resource is appropriate for brushing up on specific Catholic terms and concepts or learning them for the first time. (Catholic)

Download or read book Prayer Book for Young Catholics written by Robert J. Fox and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2004 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all need help with our prayers sometimes. Even the disciples asked Christ to teach them how to become better at praying and He gave them - and us the Our Father. Now Prayer Book for Young Catholics, Revised, gives teens and young adults a variety of words, a variety of styles. Here are the absolute best traditional Catholic prayers - including those written and prayed by some of the Church's most beloved saints! And here, too, are original prayers that focus on the challenges and concerns a young person faces today. Here's the gift that can help your son or daughter, your grandchild or godchild, take that next step in his or her prayer life. Here's how you can help your loved one find those unspoken words and grow closer to Christ, His Church, and His Mother.

Download or read book The Creed Explained written by Silvia Vecchini and published by Pauline Books and Media. This book was released on 2019-02-02 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduce children ages 8–12 to the Apostles’ Creed and the foundations of the Catholic faith. This guide explores each of the twelve “articles”, or lines, of the Apostles’ Creed piece by piece. Prayers, reflections, a notebook section and quotes from various saints and theologians give more depth to the articles. The Creed Explained offers the Apostles’ Creed as a guideline for taking children through the basic tenets of Catholicism, and begins to bring them into a deeper understanding of God.

Download or read book Youcat English written by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces young readers to Catholic beliefs as expressed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Download or read book Going Going Gone written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Catholic Youth Bible written by Saint Mary's Press and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a revised New American Bible containing over seven hundred articles and five special indexes.

Download or read book We Are Catholic written by Catherine Way Skinner and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are Catholic introduces children to the Catholic faith and its traditions. Simple words and engaging illustrations explore the most well-known symbols of Catholicism, making this an accessible book for very young Catholics.

Download or read book Religion 4 for Young Catholics written by Seton Press and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Young Catholics written by Joan L. Fee and published by Los Angeles : Sadlier. This book was released on 1981 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catholicism in Italy in the Age of Pluralism written by Franco Garelli and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious pluralism is increasing due to progressively more culturally interactive societies and an escalating exchange of migrants. Nevertheless, as this book shows, the situation in Italy is characterized by several distinct features. Statistically, the level of religiosity is noticeably higher than in other European countries, and the majority of the population declares itself Catholic. Within the Catholic world, however, there are distinct differences in the ways and forms of believing, ranging from the convinced and active faithful to the 'occasional' believer, or the development of new forms of 'Catholic.' Catholic sentiment endures although many believers may not agree with the ethical indications of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. Furthermore, the Church and Catholic groups have reinforced their presence in the public sphere by participating in various campaigns to reassert Christian values on fundamental issues for civil harmony, from the family to bioethics, the limitations of science to the goals of economic development, religious freedom to the secular State, national identity to global equilibriums, and more. The Church therefore moves at various levels in order to keep the nation closely tied to Catholic culture-a commitment which is both applauded and criticized. Some non-believers express appreciation for the Catholic campaigns set out to counteract the lack of values and loss of memory typical of advanced modernity. However, in the non-believing secular world many more criticize the Catholic presence for acting as a lobby in Italian society, accusing the Italian Church of excessive alignment to the diktat issued by the Vatican. The particularity of the Italian case poses unique questions to those who study social phenomena. Why is the Catholic Church in Italy experiencing a period of such vitality in the public sphere? How can this situation be reconciled with the undisputed advance of secularization? And what kind of organizational problems does the assertive dynamism of Italian Catholicism pose in a pluralistic society?

Download or read book Catholic Schools and the Future of the Church written by Kathleen Engebretson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first decade of the 21st century the Catholic Church in the developed world has faced a decline in its moral authority, increasing accusations of irrelevance to a secular age, and a steep and steady decline in commitment among successive generations from the 1960s on. Despite this Catholic schools have multiplied and grown in popularity and educational achievement. The book sets out a programme for the contribution of Catholic schools to the future of the Church, covering such topics as the religious education curriculum in its cognitive and affective aspects, the sacramental life of the school, selection of staff, the issue of staff and Catholic witness and many other topics. Engebretson argues that Catholic schools are a powerful key to the future of the Church and shows how, within their diversity, Catholic schools can be ecclesial communities, which have at their heart the building up of the Church.

Download or read book The American Catholic Quarterly Review written by James Andrew Corcoran and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American Catholic Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transforming Post Catholic Ireland written by Gladys Ganiel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland is the first major book to explore how religion is changing in contemporary Ireland, north and south. It confirms that the Catholic Church's long-standing 'monopoly' has well and truly disintegrated, replaced by a post-Catholic religious 'market' featuring new and growing expressions of Protestantism, as well as other religions. Drawing on island-wide surveys of clergy and laypeople, as well as more than 100 interviews,the book reveals how people of faith are dealing with issues like increased diversity brought by immigration, the historical legacies of religious violence, reconciliation, ecumenism, and the clerical sexualabuse scandals. It shows how people are creating 'extra-institutional' spaces outside of traditional religious institutions, where they are experiencing personal transformation and are working for wider religious, social, and political changes.

Download or read book Crafting Contemporary Pagan Identities in a Catholic Society written by Kathryn Rountree and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary western Paganism is now a global religious phenomenon with Pagans in many parts of the world sharing much in common - from a nature-revering worldview and lifestyle to a host of chants, invocations, ritual tools and magical practices. But there are also locally-specific differences. Local religious contexts, landscapes, histories, traditions, politics, values and norms all impact on local Paganisms. This is nowhere more evident than in a strongly Catholic society, where religion and culture are deeply entwined. Taking the Mediterranean society of Malta as a case study, this book invites readers inside the world of a small, hidden sub-culture. Showing what it is like being Pagan in a society where the vast majority of the population is Roman Catholic, and Catholicism permeates every sphere of public and domestic, social and political life, Rountree reveals that Paganism here is a unique brew of indigenous and global influences. Pagans employ both creativity and borrowing in constructing identities within a cultural context characterized by antagonism as well as continuity. This book explores the intersections of religious and cultural identity, the global and local, Paganism and Christianity, with insights grounded in rich ethnographic detail based on long-term fieldwork. Rountree makes invaluable comparisons with other studies of modern Pagans and their various worlds.