| Description |
vii, 281 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references (pages 251-258)index. |
| Contents |
Church Reform -- What is Catholic Church Teaching? --Controlling Birth and Death -- Abortion: Can We Talk? -- Death is Natural, but Human Death is Not -- Suffering, Pain, and Nonviolence -- A Healthy Attitude towards Grief and Mourning -- Gays, Lesbians, and Homosexual Orientation -- Catholic Tradition and Passive Resistance -- Revelation: Divine, Not Christian -- Responsibility, Obligations, Rights -- Human Rights and Catholic Traditions -- Catholicism and Environmentalism -- Missing in Action: Religious Education. |
| Summary |
Missed Opportunities: Rethinking Catholic Tradition opens up a dialogue between the official teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and the challenges the contemporary world presents to that institution's tradition of moral doctrines. It grounds this dialogue on a re-examination of the foundational issues of church reform and the many ways that the church teaches. By looking carefully at the nature of Catholic tradition and reconsidering how to bring that tradition into conversation with contemporary issues, Missed Opportunities proposes a pathway for the church to follow to undergo an honest and thorough reform, to regain its credibility in the midst of a society grown dubious, and to speak to today's issues in a voice consonant with the best resources in the Catholic tradition. -- back cover. |
| Subject |
Catholic Church.
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| Subject(S) |
Catholics -- Religion.
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Catholics -- Social life and customs.
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| ISBN |
9781491784419 |
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1491784415 |
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