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Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2004

Abstract

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Americans are 60% churchgoers today, just as in colonial times and in every century since. But our times are different. Today everything stands in question. In San Francisco and the western half of Washington State, 90% of residents tell census takers they have no religious identity whatever. Moreover, today America offers many faith options: Buddhism, New Age Spirituality, Islam, and countless fundamentalist cults. Our own mainline church services increasingly resemble fourth-century churches, filling up with people with no known faith commitment. That describes not only our visitors, but longtime church members as well.

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Address for Saying and Doing the Gospel Today: Mass (2004)

Published in Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers #12, Saying and Doing the Gospel Today, 2004-2006. Rhoda Schuler, editor. Institute of Liturgical Studies: Valparaiso, IN. 2007.

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