No closure : Catholic practice and Boston's parish shutdowns /

In 2004 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston announced plans to close more than eighty churches. Distraught parishioners occupied several of these buildings in opposition to the decrees. Seitz tells the stories of these resisting Catholics in their own words, illuminating how they were drawn to...

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Main Author: Seitz, John C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: closings
  • The pasts living in people
  • Divergent histories: change and the making of resistors, 1950-2004
  • "What do we have?": locales and objects in the hands of the people of God
  • "This is unrest territory:" orthodoxy and opposition in resistors' practice of the parish
  • Openings.