HELEN ROSE EBAUGH
Department of Sociology
University of Houston
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I.
SOCIAL AND
HISTORICAL CONDITIONS OF VATICAN II
VATICAN II AND THE
REVITALIZATION MOVEMENT
Helen Rose Ebaugh
3
THE CHURCH AND MODERNIZATION
Gregory Baum
and Jean-Guy Vaillancourt 21
PART II.
CHANGES IN
THE INTERNAL DYNAMICS OF THE U.S. CHURCH
THE DEMOGRAPHY
OF AMERICAN CATHOLICS: 1965-1990
Andrew M. Greenley
37
CATHOLIC YOUTH IN
THE MODERN CHURCH
Patrick H. McNamara
57
CHANGES IN THE PRIESTHOOD
AND SEMINARIES
Dean R. Hoge
67
FULL PEWS AND EMPTY
ALTARS: DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE U.S. DIOCESAN PRIESTS,
1966-2005
Richard A. Schoenherr
and Lawrence A. Young 85
AMERICAN SISTERS:
ORGANIZATIONAL AND VALUE CHANGES
Marie Augusta
Neal, S.N.D. 105
NEW ROLES FOR WOMEN
IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: 1965-1990
Ruth A. Wallace
123
PART III.
THE CHURCH
AND SOCIAL ISSUES:
INSTITUTIONAL COMMITMENTS
AND SHIFTING ATTITUDES OF CATHOLICS CATHOLIC SEXUAL ETHICS SINCE VATICAN
II
James R. Kelly
139
THE CHURCH AND SOCIAL
ISSUES: INSTITUTIONAL COMMITMENTS
Joseph P. Fitzpatrick,
S.J. 155
THE CHURCH
AND THE NEW IMMIGRANTS
Kevin J. Christiano
169
THE SOCIAL MOVEMENT
FOR CHANGE WITHIN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Katherine
Meyer 187
PART IV.
CATHOLICISM IN
WORLD PERSPECTIVE
WESTERN EUROPE CATHOLICISM
SINCE VATICAN II
Karel Dobbelaere
and Liliane Voye 205
THE POST-VATICAN
II CHURCH IN LATIN AMERICA
Madeleine Adriance
233
PART V.
LOOKING INTO THE
FUTURE OF THE CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES
U.S. CATHOLICISM:
THE NOW AND FUTURE CHURCH
Joseph H. Fichter,
S.J. 249
VATICAN II AND THE
RECONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE CHURCH
Helen Rose Ebaugh
267