Catholics USA:
Washburn, Susanne
CATHOLICS USA: MAKERS OF A MODERN CHURCH, by Linda Brandi Cateura, Morrow, $19.95, 336 pp. Linda Brandi Cateura, whose Growing Up Italian garnered a New York Public Library accolade in 1987, has...
...Apart from the problems of poverty, Elizondo asks, "How do we help people out of affluence...
...Notre Dame president Edward Malloy...
...Projecting us forward, Elizondo looks for a real "New World" in this hemisphere, a borderless America from Argentina to Canada...
...SUSANNE WASHBURNNE WASHBURN...
...J. Peter Grace discusses the rich man, the poor man, and the bishops' letter on the economy...
...ambassador to the Vatican...
...Charles Curran offers a modest, well-reasoned position on authority...
...and Andrew who pinpoints preaching as the foremost of the problems in the church today: "A lot of priests are concerned about justice in the third world, but many less are concerned about justice to the parishioners...
...Elizondo sees the origins of liberation theology in the church's failures...
...gay activist Father John McNeill...
...Frank Shakespeare, U.S...
...Not just a mixed bag, Cateura's book serves up a smorgasbord of thinking about Catholicism, demonstrating a classic mark of the church, universality...
...Elizondo's MACC has plumbed with professionals the psychological dimensions of the extraordinary joy found in the liturgical celebration of such suffering peoples as the Mexicans...
...Linda Brandi Cateura, whose Growing Up Italian garnered a New York Public Library accolade in 1987, has another interview book, Catholics USA...
...One of the loveliest sources, at his best in insights into the nature of Hispanic religious life, is the Reverend Virgilio Elizondo, rector of the cathedral in San Antonio and founder of the Mexican-American Cultural Center (MACC...
...But the absence of the clergy has brought about a freedom of thought that gave people a desire to rethink what it means to be a Christian...
...Elizondo, Bishop John Ricard, and Charismatic Annemarie Schmidt experience a "dead" quality in mainstream American Catholic worship but find altogether different qualities in their own strains of liturgy...
...Though it may come as a surprise to many feminists, Jacqueline Wexler identifies mid-twentieth-century convents as "the precursors of what the women's movement was to call 'sisterhood.'" Columnist Bill Reel analogizes the pre-Vatican II church to a slightly stodgy club: "You had 100 members, then you renew yourself and (twenty-five years later) you've got 30...
...In a period when the modernization of the church is, according to interviewee Alexander Haig, "the most anguishing challenge that it faces," Cateura presents a sampling of mostly prominent Americans across a wide spectrum of contemporary life who reveal their personal visions of the church and themselves in relation to it...
...Among twenty-five interviews, Edward Kennedy talks of sometimes serving Mass with his son when they attend church in Hyannisport...
...Ruth McDonough Fitzpatrick, head of the Woman's Ordination Conference, foresees that in ten years "they are going to be ordaining women and married men and calling back the priests who left to get married...
...and Los Angeles Archbishop Roger Mahony, what is effectively a rejoinder...
...Mario Cuomo...
...It is not anticlerical," he explains...
...Western [Catholic] scholars are frightened by this...
...It may be the more profound question...
...Among others interviewed are television's Mother Angelica...
Vol. 117 • April 1990 • No. 7
