The Laity & the leadership crisis. (in the Catholic Church) (The Laity) (Cover Story)

From: Commonweal | Date: September 10, 1993| Author: Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien | Copyright information

The Catholic church in the United States is a large, diverse, and contradictory body.

It is 55 million people from virtually every country, ethnic, and racial grouping in the world.

It is a church variously distrusted or admired for its authority and clear line of command. Yet it has no central budget; authority is decentralized in 196 dioceses and exercised by 397 bishops; its primary activities are carried out in some 17,000 parishes. It is a church with an...

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