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Article: Liberal Catholicism endures in pastoral church.
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- August 31, 2007
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Evangelical Catholicism may be running the table in terms of official policy, but most experts say that rumors of the death of liberal Catholicism have been greatly exaggerated.
Just as the evangelical impulse is one way of responding to modernity, so too is liberalism, and most sociologists say that complex religious institutions are likely to contain both and many others--only sects, they argue, have the luxury of rigid consistency. Further, terms such as "evangelical" and "liberal" are ideal types rather than airtight ways of categorizing real people, and many Catholics reflect elements of both in their own thinking.
At least in the United States, ...