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Article: A growing canon of renewal.(A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America)(Book Review)
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- June 19, 2005
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A People Adrift: the Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America, by Peter Steinfels, New York, Simon and Schuster, 2004. 420 pp
In this national best seller, now reissued with a new afterword, distinguished reporter Peter Steinfels begins with a bald statement: "Today, the Roman Catholic Church in the United States is on the verge of either an irreversible decline or a thoroughgoing transformation."
For the author, the next twenty years are crucial to this outcome, as the church negotiates two transitions. The first is generational. As the Vatican II generation recedes, new leadership is arriving "with new questions, but increasingly, without old ...