No Closure : Catholic Practice and Boston's Parish Shutdowns / John C. Seitz.
Seitz, John C., author.
2011
BX1417.B6 S45 2011eb
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Title No Closure : Catholic Practice and Boston's Parish Shutdowns / John C. Seitz.
Author Seitz, John C., author.
ISBN 9780674061316
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674061316
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674061316 doi
Call Number BX1417.B6 S45 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 254/.02
Summary In 2004 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston announced plans to close or merge more than eighty parish churches. Scores of Catholics-28,000, by the archdiocese's count-would be asked to leave their parishes. The closures came just two years after the first major revelations of clergy sexual abuse and its cover up. Wounds from this profound betrayal of trust had not healed.In the months that followed, distraught parishioners occupied several churches in opposition to the closure decrees. Why did these accidental activists resist the parish closures, and what do their actions and reactions tell us about modern American Catholicism? Drawing on extensive fieldwork and with careful attention to Boston's Catholic history, Seitz tells the stories of resisting Catholics in their own words, and illuminates how they were drawn to reconsider the past and its meanings. We hear them reflect on their parishes and the sacred objects and memories they hold, on the way their personal histories connect with the history of their neighborhood churches, and on the structures of authority in Catholicism.Resisters describe how they took their parishes and religious lives into their own hands, and how they struggled with everyday theological questions of respect and memory; with relationships among religion, community, place, and comfort; and with the meaning of the local church. No Closure is a story of local drama and pathos, but also a path of inquiry into broader questions of tradition and change as they shape Catholics' ability to make sense of their lives in a secular world.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Closings
1. The Pasts Living in People
2. Divergent Histories: Change and the Making of Resisters, 1950-2004
3. "What do we have?" Locales and Objects in the Hands of the People of God
4. "This is unrest territory:" Authority and Sacrifice in Resisters' Practice of the Parish
5. Openings
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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