« The Vatican And Alien Life |
Main
| Hewitt Backfires? »
08 Jun 2008 01:59 pm
When Theocons Attack
A teaser from Andrew Greeley's 2004 Atlantic article on the Church's generational divide:
For more than three decades now, as a sociologist and a priest, I have been tracking the evolution of the beliefs and practices of the Catholic clergy and laity in the United States. My most recent analysis, based on survey data that I and others have gathered periodically since Vatican II, reveals a striking trend: a generation of conservative young priests is on the rise in the U.S. Church. These are newly ordained men who seem in many ways intent on restoring the pre-Vatican II Church, and who, reversing the classic generational roles, define themselves in direct opposition to the liberal priests who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s.
Share This
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83451c45669e200e552ce14f88833
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference 'When Theocons Attack'
