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Chicago Catholics and the Struggles within Their Church (Paperback)
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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. As the eminent
Catholic sociologist Andrew M. Greeley argues, it is this very
difference that makes rigorous comparisons between Chicago
Catholics and other Catholic subpopulations possible. He suggests
that history and geography provide a basis for understanding the
development of the Catholic Church not just in this specific area,
but also in the entire United States. The Catholic Archdiocese of
Chicago it composed of two counties, Lake and Cook. At the same
time the Catholic population has been pushed up against the
boundary of DuPage County by racial change in the city, so that
much of the west and south side Catholic population of the city has
moved into the southern and western suburbs. In this research area,
half of the Catholics have attended college and half of those have
attended graduate school. Thus, the conventional image of Chicago
as a mix of ethnic immigrant neighborhoods has to be modified
although there are still many new immigrants attending special
immigrant parishes. Greeley argues that the official church in
Chicago, and by inference elsewhere, has not recognized the
community structures that permeate the neighborhoods, that it does
not grasp the religious stories that shape its peoples' identity,
and it does not understand the intense, if selective, loyalty of
the archdiocese to its leadership. As part of this argument,
Greeley includes transcriptions of in-depth interviews with former
Catholics. This study provides a fascinating window into the world
of Catholicism in twenty-first century urban America.
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