This book responds with passion and skill to the growing concerns of spiritual seekers and teachers of the Catholic faith.
What might one expect to learn from a probability sample study of the Archdiocese of Chicago? Can one form a national portrait of Catholics in the United States from data about Chicago? Certainly, Chicago is unique in its judgments about its clergy
Almost all of America's private colleges and universities started out as denominational schools, but connections with sponsoring churches gradually attenuated over the last century
Due to heightened global migration and transnational mobility, many residents of the world's cities lack national citizenship in the places to which they have moved for work, refuge, or retirement
Most sociologists of religion describe a general decline in religious faith and practice in Europe over the last two centuries
The religious imagination is alive and well in the movies
The number of minority students, many of them not Catholic, who have enrolled in Catholic secondary schools is substantial