Church seems on brink of unmentionable: schism. (Column)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: January 28, 1994| Author: Chittister, Joan | Copyright information

You can't pick up a paper without getting signals of it. More certain than that, perhaps, is the fact that my mail confirms everything the articles say. What I was raised to think were characteristics of the "one, holy, catholic and apostolic church" have, apparently, shattered someplace along the way. Catholics just don't think alike anymore. At the very least, they don't seem to let anyone tell them what to think anymore. One letter chastises me for changing liturgical language t...

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