Spoils of the kingdom; clergy misconduct and religious community.
9780252031595 Spoils of the kingdom; clergy misconduct and religious community. Shupe, Anson. U. of Illinois Press 2007 148 pages $38.00 Hardcover BV4011 When there have been witnesses to and reported experiences...

Peanut butter and glam.
I have a three-year-old nephew named John-Paul. He can't pronounce his "j" sound; thus words like "jam" and "Justin" are rendered "glam" and "Glustin." When he and his family visited us last summer, he would ask for things like a "peanut butter and glam" sandwich. I thought it was...

The Catholic Church in Hungary.
The Hungarian bishops were received by Pope Benedict XVI in May 2008 at their five-yearly ad limina visit to the Vatican. The Pope seemed aware of many of Fr. Maga's concerns such as lack of priests and the effects of secularization, with the same symptoms as other Western countries....

World Youth Day 2008: Benedict's 'New Age' in Sydney.
In a message sent to the people of Australia prior to his arrival "down under," Pope Benedict XVI wrote: "My prayer is that the hearts of the young people who gather in Sydney for the celebration of World Youth Day will truly find rest in the Lord, and that...

The partnering of church and school in nineteenth-century Sweden.
The causal link between modernization and secularization forms the core of secularization theories. With modernization, rationalization leads to a "demythologization" of the world; technology reduces the occasions in which humans seek divine assistance for this-worldly problems; large-scale industrialized enterprises, cities, and nation states replace the small, close-knit communities from...

I have mentioned before Mark Lilla's The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West.
* I have mentioned before Mark Lilla's The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West. Lilla, who depicts himself as an escapee from fundamentalist Protestantism, teaches intellectual history at Columbia University. I have been following the reviews of the book, almost all of which have been sharply critical....

Catholics in Indonesia: A Documented History. Vol. 1: A Modest Recovery, 1808-1903; vol. 2: The Spectacular Growth of a Self-Confident Minority, 1903-1942.
Catholics in Indonesia: A Documented History. Vol. 1: A Modest Recovery, 1808- 1903; vol. 2: The Spectacular Growth of a Self-Confident Minority, 1903-1942. By Karel Steenbrink. Leiden: KITLV, 2003-7. Vol. 1, pp. xviii, 528; vol. 2, pp. xiii, 634. Paperback 47.50 [euro]/$57 each vol. These two volumes...

Tested in Every Way: The Catholic Priesthood in Today's Church.
TESTED IN EVERY WAY: THE CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD IN TODAY'S CHURCH. By Christopher Ruddy. New York: Crossroad, 2006. Pp. xi + 178. $16.95. What light can a gathering of mainstream American Catholics, clergy, religious, and laity, with both pastoral and academic expertise, shed on the challenge of being...