Making the Church Our Own (How We Can Reform the Catholic Church from the Ground Up)

A longtime leader among liberal Catholics lays out a practical program for democratizing and opening up the Church from the local parish and diocese level up, drawing on the unrealized potential of models and reforms through history. As background he especially focuses on the Enlightenment reform movement in 19th-century Germany that presaged the reforms proposed by Vatican Council II, many of which are still unfulfilled or even reversed. He also discusses the remarkably democratic and lay-involving practices of the Catholic Church in early America. He concludes with a draft constitution for parishes and dioceses to adapt.

This book title, Making the Church Our Own (How We Can Reform the Catholic Church from the Ground Up), ISBN: 9781580512152, by Leonard Swidler, published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (April 16, 2007) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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