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Grimes, Edward. "The teaching of canon law and the pastoral formation of future priests, with special reference to the United States." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Myler, John T. "Mary, the U.S. Bishops and the decade of silence: the 1973 pastoral letter "Behold Your Mother Woman of Faith"." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1509977485444077.

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Mooney, Mary. "Challenge to authority : Catholic laity in Chile and the United States, 1966-1987." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28858.

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This dissertation analyzes the nature and degree of attitudinal change that has taken place within a key sector of the Catholic Church, i.e, lay leaders, in the period between 1966 and 1987 in two different national contexts, Chile and the United States. It builds on an unfinished study by Ivan Vallier, who attempted to clarify the ambiguous position of the laity in the Church and in society, in implementing the reforms of Vatican II. The author interviewed 96 middle-class lay leaders, plus dozens of informants. The analysis examines continuity and change on three issues. Some key findings include: a significant change in concepts of Church and God, toward more intimate/maternal images that encompass an active social dimension; much greater salience and complexity of the 'democratization' issue, particularly concerning the role of women, in the American Church; and the continuing imperative of the socio-political issue for the Chileans and their demands for more, not less, political involvement by the hierarchy. The results reflect the persistent tensions between 'progressive' and 'conservative' models of change, and help to explain the continuing importance of religion in modern society.

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Yarnelle, Edward Joseph. "Pipe and electronic church organ acquisitions since 1975 in selected Roman Catholic parishes in the United States." Virtual Press, 1990. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/722778.

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A survey was conducted to determine current conditions pertaining to church organ acquisitions and renovations in selected Roman Catholic parishes in the United States. A need exists to ascertain what problems are occurring with the process of organ acquisition, what solutions are possible, and how trends in organ acquisition are measuring up with the principles outlined by Vatican II.Addresses of organ companies were obtained from the current National Association of Pastoral Musician's Organ Builders Directory_ (1988). The 105 organ companies queried sent the researcher the addresses of 711 past and current Roman Catholic customers; each customer was sent a questionnaire. Fifty-eight percent of the contacts responded, supplying significant information from 362 parishes in the forty-eight contiguous United States. Information was obtained regarding: organ installation/renovation, selection, organ companies considered, console placement, parish size, age of church building, fund-raising, greatest difficulties experienced, points of advice based on experience, diocesan organ acquisition policies, acoustical concerns, and reasons for choosing a pipe or an electronic instrument.Reviews of related research and discussions of current publications, Roman Catholic church music legislation, new technologies used for accompanying church music, and differing opinions of church leaders supplement the survey research.Parishes reported their most difficult problems encountered during organ acquistion and offered their best points of advice for avoiding problems. The data include opinions regarding pipe and electronic instruments; organ companies frequently utilized; examples of sucessful organ console placement; the status and examples of diocesan written policies concerning keyboard accompaniment instruments; the benefits of combining fund-raising with parish education and communication; and the need for greater concern and education regarding acoustics.Case studies describe Roman parishes that achieved quality worship services after thorough preparations for their organ acquisition. Beginning parishes need the greatest amount of help for organ planning. Conclusions call for national-level attention and education about the organ acquisition process, and encourage dioceses to facilitate this goal with well-written policies.
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Perkin, David Rundle. "A comparative analysis of the 1971 and 1984 editions of Permanent deacons in the United States, guidelines on their formation and ministry." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Lafferty, David M. "Constructing priests' spiritualities fashioning spiritual practices and integrating spirituality in the lives of Roman Catholic diocesan priests in the United States /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Gomori, Marcus. "An extended reflection on the history of the Eastern Catholic Church in the United States and the challenges facing its mission and possible future in the twenty-first century (Ruthenian jurisdiction)." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Sutherland, Philip. "Christ and Culture in America: Civil Religion and the American Catholic Church." Thesis, Boston College, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107479.

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Thesis advisor: Mark Massa
Thesis advisor: Dominic Doyle
Civil religion is a necessary unifying force in a religiously plural society such as the United States, but it can also usurp the place of Christianity in the believer’s life. This is always a danger for Christianity which can only be the “good news” if it is inculturated by drawing upon a society’s own symbols. But it must also transcend the culture if it is to speak a prophetic word to it
Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2017
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology

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Hartzler, Joseph A. "We beg to differ, the Roman Catholic church in the United States as a public church." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ54048.pdf.

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Mahoney, John J. "The canonical regulation of the restored catechumenate in the National Statutes of the United States." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Roy, John J. "Catholic identity of primary and secondary schools in the United States in light of canon 803." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Lombardo, Michael F. "Founding Father: John J. Wynne, S.J., and the Inculturation of American Catholicism in the Progressive Era." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1399037190.

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Yacovazzi, Cassandra Kidd Thomas S. "The crisis of sectarianism Restorationist, Catholic, and Mormon converts in antebellum America /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5343.

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Lanier, Ryan David. "The Catholic Church's approach to restoring its image in the face of the sexual abuse crisis." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2076.

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The public relations response of the church to the sexual abuse malady is the focus of this project. The purpose of this project is to evaluate the discourse and actions of the church according to image restoration theory.

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Oonnonny, George N. "Pastoral care of Eastern Catholic faithful residing outside their historical territory with particular reference to the United States and Canada." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29151.

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During the past two centuries, millions of people belonging to Eastern Christian traditions, due to a variety of reasons, have found themselves uprooted from their native soil and planted in Western Europe, Canada, United States, Latin America and Australia. Five fundamental, but intrinsically related, issues constitute the core of our study of pastoral care of Eastern Catholics living in the diaspora. The first issue we consider is the origins of Eastern Catholic Churches, in order to identify and understand the root causes of the problem. If the Eastern and Western (Latin) traditions were identical, then there would have been no reason for raising the question in the first place. The second issue concerns the actual pastoral problems directly affecting those faithful who are displaced from their native territories and find themselves in the diaspora. The third issue is related to the source of the right of Eastern Catholics to proper pastoral care flowing from their legitimate ascription to a Church sui iuris. The fourth issue involves the proper authorities who have the primary obligation to provide pastoral care for the faithful. It includes the highly debated question of the jurisdiction of the patriarch or archieparch over their faithful who live outside their historical territory. The fifth issue concerns appropriate pastoral approaches to problems faced today by Eastern Catholics in the diaspora. Our study is divided into five chapters corresponding to the five issues mentioned above. Thus, the first chapter deals with the historical origins of the Eastern Catholic Churches. In the second and third chapters we examine the current pastoral problems of the Eastern Catholic faithful in the diaspora and their right to appropriate pastoral care in virtue of their ascription to a particular sui iuris Church. Historical evidence indicates that the Church has always demonstrated its pastoral solicitude toward migrants and displaced people. This is evident in the Church's documents and papal teachings. An analysis of these ecclesiastical documents is the thrust of the fourth chapter. In the final chapter we address some issues of practical and pastoral importance related to Eastern Catholics living in the diaspora. Also included in this final chapter is an analysis of the results of a questionnaire we sent out to selected arch/dioceses in the United States and Canada. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

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Padilla, Rafael. "The application of the universal law on migrants in documents of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p029-0656.

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Rubio, José Antonio. "An historical survey and theological analysis of the relationship of Roman Catholics and Pentecostals in the Latino community in the United States." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Suvada, Jennifer V. "A study of the evangelical Protestant reception of the document, Evangelicals and Catholics together, from its release in March 1994 through December 1996, including a case study of the Southern Baptist Convention." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Hibbard, Angela M. "Making Pentecost Christians the parish as an initiating community /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Nelson, Kathryn O'Shae. "Reasons given by Anglo/Hispanic parents/guardians for choosing a Catholic high school in the southwestern United States." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184394.

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The purposes of this descriptive study were to determine the reasons for which Anglo and Hispanic parents/guardians send their children to a Catholic high school in the southwestern United States and to investigate the effect of specific demographic elements upon the parents'/guardians' reasons. These elements were sex, age, and ethnicity of student; age, sex, ethnicity, religion, educational level, and social-economic status of parents/guardians; and marital status, family school affiliation, and family configuration, and family mobility. A modified Delphi procedure with two questionnaires was used to both identify the reasons and to investigate the possible effects of the demographic elements. A RVAX computer with SPSSX was used to apply measures of central tendency, factor analysis, and ANOVA to the data. The study revealed that the main reasons for this Catholic school choice were academics and discipline/environment. The secondary reasons were teachers/students, size and programs, and religious instruction and atmosphere. The two remaining reasons were dissatisfaction with public schools and family tradition. The study indicated that the interaction of age, sex, and ethnicity of students did significantly influence the evaluations of discipline/environment, religious instruction and atmosphere, and family tradition. In addition, the evaluations of the seven factors were significantly influenced by various combinations of family mobility, economic status, family configuration, marital status, religion, educational level, and ethnicity, age, and sex of parents/guardians. The study suggested that although parents/guardians in 1986 agree with those in a 1974 study that academics is important, they place much less importance upon religion. Other major findings suggested that the values of specific categories of parents/guardians cannot be accurately predicted and that it should not be assumed that Anglo and Hispanic students are sent to a Catholic school for different reasons. Finally, the study suggested that academics and discipline/environment, the main reasons for which parents/guardians make the Catholic school choice, should be a concern of all schools, whether they are parochial, private, or public.

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Gabrielli, Timothy R. "Confirmation and Being Catholic in the United States: The Development of the Sacrament of Confirmation in the Twentieth Century." Dayton, Ohio : University of Dayton, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1266435778.

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Peterson, Sandra Guidroz 1960. "Descriptive assessment of premarital programs: A sample of Southern Baptist churches." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291610.

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Premarital programs have been in existence for over fifty years. A majority of the programs are church-based. The purpose of this study, using a random sample survey of Southern Baptist churches, was to compile a description of what these churches were doing in premarital preparation work; examine what effects, if any, church size had on the type of program offered, church program leader characteristics and topic coverage. Descriptive material was compiled. Churches were divided into five size categories. Statistical significance was detected based on size and type of format used. Larger churches were more likely to see couples in a group format setting versus individual or couple-only counseling. With consistency, larger churches were much more likely than the smaller to cover a broad range of topics in sessions. The pastor remained the primary individual to conduct the premarital program within their churches, regardless of church size.

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Nesser, Dennis. "Informing the selection of Latin Catholic bishops in the United States the role of the people of God at the diocesan level /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p029-0674.

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Alva, Luis. "The growth in the role of the Catholic Church in Cuba : internal and external factors /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA404710.

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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2002.
Thesis advisor(s): Harold A. Trinkunas, Thomas C. Bruneau. Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-55). Also available online.

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Romero, Sigifredo. "The Progressive Catholic Church in Brazil, 1964-1972: The Official American View." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1210.

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This thesis explores the American view of the Brazilian Catholic Church through the critical examination of cables produced by the U.S. diplomatic mission in Brazil during the period 1964-1972. This thesis maintains that the United States regarded the progressive catholic movement, and eventually the Church as a whole, as a threat to its security interests. Nonetheless, by the end of 1960s, the American approach changed from suspicion to collaboration as the historical circumstances required so. This thesis sheds light on the significance of the U.S. as a major player in the political conflict that affected Brazil in the 1964-1972 years in which the Brazilian Catholic Church, and particularly its progressive segments, played a fundamental role.

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Aldrich, Julia Catherine. "Reimagining the Framework: The Legacies of Three Generations of Catholic Women and the Implications for Modern Day Catholics of the United States." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1544556971953954.

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Hui, Andrew. "An Investigation of the Needs for Music-Related Content in the Bible College Pastoral Curriculum as Perceived by a Selected Group of Pastors." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332294/.

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The purpose of the study was to investigate the needs for music-related content in the Bible college pastoral curriculum as perceived by a selected group of pastors. The research problems were (1) to assess the extent of musical preparation of recent pastoral graduates from selected accredited Bible colleges in the United States, (2) to assess the music-related duties of those graduates in paid pastoral positions, (3) to assess the pastors' perceived needs for instructional preparation for the fulfillment of their musical duties, and (4) to determine the effect of selected factors on the perceived needs of those pastors.

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Frisk, Jean M. "Mary in catechesis: a comparative study on magisterial catechetical documents and religion textbooks for elementary schools in the United States from 1956-1998." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1431447113.

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Matenaer, David Herbert. "Parish ministry and the spiritual horizon." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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McDonald, Angus. "The competent God a theology of long-term pastoral discipleship of the post-war generation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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McNeely, James Keith. "Via media towards an Anglican model of managing and leading ministry /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p064-0136.

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Sagala, Miranda Belinda. "Los Angeles Archdiocese child sexual abuse scandal: A case study in crisis communication." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2363.

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This thesis examined strategies employed by the Los Angeles Archdiocese in its communcation with the media during the initial phases of handling the child sexual abuse scandal. Internal and external messages from the archdiocese were analyzed in terms of how well they conformed to the five generally accepted principles that should govern crisis communication: timeliness, openness, honesty, regret and accessibility.

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Gomez, Angela. "Charitable Choice in Florida: The Politics, Ethics and Implications of Social Policy." Scholar Commons, 2003. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1375.

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This dissertation research is a study of the anthropology of policy with welfare reform in general and charitable choice in particular as its focus. The study begins with the notion that policies work as instruments of governance and consequently have social and political implications. These policies are examined by exploring the manner in which Catholic Charities and policy makers in Florida are responding to the charitable choice mandate and how their views are shaping local policies. The study is framed within anthropological principles pertaining to economic, humanistic and philosophical tenets. The study provides a historical background of poverty, the development of the welfare state in the United States as well as some of the social, economic, and political factors that shape social policies. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews conducted with representatives from Catholic Charities, government agencies, legislative committees, and faith-based organizations, and through document reviews. Data were analyzed qualitatively and were managed using the software Atlas.ti. Analysis of the data show that while there is increased convergence between the state and faith-based organizations (FBOs), there is some hesitancy on the part of religious organizations to assume full responsibility for the poor, particularly without having any funding guarantees. The data also suggests that through the implementation of charitable choice religious organizations face the risk of becoming highly dependent on the state and therefore loose their voice and the possibility of lobbying for the poor. Furthermore, the data suggests that there are some aspects of the implementation of charitable choice that have not received congressional approval and may eventually jeopardize the entire faith-based initiative.

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Estrada, Andrés Arango. "Religião e migracão: estudo de mexicanos católicos nas cidades de San Diego-CA e Phoenix-AZ, nos Estados Unidos da América, no início do século XXI." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2015. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1948.

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This study is an approach to the way how Mexican migrants carry out their Catholic religious practices in the United States from the experience of living an international and transnational migration process, confront adverse situations, and reach a multicultural country with a great diversity of beliefs and religious events. The contextualization of these situations in the cities of San Diego-CA and Phoenix-AZ allow to highlight a reality full of contrasts that is observed in their practices and the ability to act in these environments with the challenge of integration and social transformation in the society of origin and destination
Este estudo é uma abordagem de como os migrantes mexicanos realizam suas práticas religiosas católicas nos Estados Unidos a partir da experiência de um processo de migração internacional e transnacional, de como enfrentar situações adversas e chegar a um país multicultural com uma grande diversidade de crenças e eventos religiosos. A contextualização dessas situações nas cidades de San Diego-CA e Phoenix-AZ permitem destacar uma realidade cheia de contrastes que se observa em suas práticas religiosas, bem como a capacidade de ação nesses ambientes tendo o desafio de se integrar e se transformar dentro da nova sociedade que escolheram para viver

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Gandy, Shawna Lea. "Fur Trade Daughters of the Oregon Country: Students of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, 1850." PDXScholar, 2004. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2717.

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Ethnicity, religion, class, and gender are important elements in determining the cultural texture of society. This study examines these components at an important junction in the history of the Pacific Northwest through the lives of students enrolled in two girls’ schools established by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (SNDN) in the Willamette Valley in the 1840s. These girls, predominantly métis daughters of fur-trade settlers and their Indian wives, along with their Irish and Anglo-American classmates, represent the socioeconomic and cultural transformation of the region as the mixing that gave rise to the unique intermediary culture referred to as “fur-trade society” succumbed to American political and social domination. The primary interest of this study is the process of acculturation facilitated by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and the effect of this acculturation on the métis students. By using a sample of students drawn from the 1850 United States Federal Census of the Oregon Territory, documents relating to the fur trade, Catholic Missions, and early settlement, and standard genealogical and biographical sources, this study compares the two SNDN schools through an analysis of their academic and cultural purposes and ethnic lineage, socioeconomic class, and religious affiliation of other students. Furthermore, as a test of the success of their religious training and acculturation, this study examines the socioeconomic and ethnic characteristics of marriage partners and the students’ religious affiliation as adults, and looks for evidence of métis ethic identity. The resulting analysis uncovers a two-tier system of education that mirrored the bipartite social structure of fur trade: the SNDN tailored the educational offerings at the two schools to serve the different needs of their discrete populations of settlers. Subsequent to their schooling, servant class métis girls most often retained paternal religious and ethnic ties, while officer class daughters show less attachments to their Catholic religious roots and chose more ethnically diverse spouses. Finally, the exogamous martial patterns of both groups discount the presence of strong métis ethic identity.

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Joynt, Shaun. "Exodus of clergy : a practical theological grounded theory exploration." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27595.

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There is a shortage of clergy, at least in the Roman Catholic Church (cf Schoenherr&Sorenson 1982:23; Heilbronner 1998:11; Tentler 1998:348; Carroll 2001:1; Fernandez 2001:ix-x; see Seidler 1979:764; Berger 1987; Hoge et al 1988:264, 280). The Protestant Church in general is experiencing more of a distribution problem than a shortage (cf Chaves 2001:36; see Jud et al 1970:59). The two greatest hindrances to addressing this clergy distribution problem among Protestant churches is a lack of adequate compensation for clergy and the undesirable location, as perceived by clergy, of the church (Chaves 2001:36; see Jud et al 1970:59). Challenges such as secularization, duality of vocation, time management, change in type of ministry, family issues, congregational and denominational conflict, burnout, sexual misconduct, divorce or marital problems, and suicide, affect clergy. Studies on the shortage of clergy have been conducted mostly in the USA and Europe and not in South Africa. This study seeks to address this research gap by means of a practical theological grounded theory exploration of the exodus of clergy. Grounded theory methodology is used to identify the reasons why clergy trained at a Bible College of a Protestant Charismatic mega church leave full-time pastoral ministry. Findings correspond to previous studies with two reasons appearing more frequently than others: responding to a call and leadership related issues. Firstly, respondents differed in their replies with respect to reconciling their leaving full-time pastoral ministry to their call with responses of: not being called, a dual call, or called but left anyway. Secondly, respondents indicated that leadership influence was mostly negative with regard to affirming their call.
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
Practical Theology
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Costa, Jennifer Marie, and Maria Lorena Ochoa. "Acculturation among a Hispanic population in San Bernardino County." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2523.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between Hispanics and their levels of acculturation. This study's intent was to incorporate variables in order to identify generation and language as defining factors for acculturation. A Likert-type Bidemensional Acculturation Scale for Hispanics (BAS) was used to test six hypotheses.

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Johnson, Kathleen Carlton Ph D. "Radical social activism, lay Catholic women and American feminism, 1920-1960." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1198.

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This dissertation describes a movement I am calling Radical Social Activism that flourished among Catholic women between the years 1920-1960. The Catholic women participating did not abandon their Church's teachings on women but worked within the androcentric Catholic Church to achieve some lasting results as Radical Social Activists. This Radical Social Activism worked in the lives of Dorothy Day, Maisie Ward, and Dorothy Dohen, three women who retained a firm attachment to the Catholic faith and who would not align themselves with the incipient feminism of the times, but who, nevertheless, strove for social change and justice without regard for political or social recognition. Their work was radical because they were not complacent with the status quo and worked to change it. Their work was social because they ignored Church politics and reached outside their individual egos. And their work was definitely action oriented in that they practiced their beliefs rather than simply preach them. Few Catholic women were involved with the early women's Suffragist movement; the overwhelming majority did not participate in mainstream feminism, in part due to their immigrant background. Women stepped out of the family setting and into active roles in a society that increasingly measured success in terms of economic well being. These role changes produced trade offs in terms of how the family was viewed and it de-emphasized society's spiritual well being. Some of the issues and solutions for women in modern society collided with moral and ethical teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. I have selected three such women who responded with Radical Social Activism, and participated in the American Catholic Church, however, they did not participate in the general feminism of the times. These women, Dorothy Day, Maisie Ward, and Dorothy Dohen, represented in their Radical Social Activism, a feminism of the spirit, as it were, while still remaining within the structure and Magisterium of the Church proper. As women moved into secular society, they made compromises concerning their duties and responsibilities to family. Issues of divorce, birth control, and abortion became popular remedies that helped limit family duties and responsibilities. However, the Catholic Church has always viewed these as problematical and theological challenges to Catholic teaching and has consistently refuted the expediency of these solutions on moral grounds. Yet, if the Church's view on women limits women as feminists have claimed, it did not stop Day, Dohen, and Ward from participating and changing the secular world around them, while still remaining loyal to the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Christian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology
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McCaslin, Brianna Jean. "Thou Shalt Not: Experiences of Contraceptive Use and Religious Identity Negotiation Among Married Catholic Women." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/8363.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
The Catholic Church is widely known for its opposition to birth control. Yet statistics show that the vast majority of American Catholics use birth control. While multiple studies have been conducted on a larger quantitative scale about the use or attitudes of American Catholics toward birth control, there have not been qualitative studies to understand the experiences of Catholics who use contraception. This study is particularly timely given the recent Catholic opposition to the Affordable Care Act’s mandate of employee healthcare provided birth control as well as, the extraordinary synod of bishops to discuss pastoral challenges to family life in October 2015. Fourteen married Catholic women were interviewed about their religious identities and experiences using contraception. Analysis demonstrated how these women constructed a religious identity by maximizing certain aspects, such as prayer and service, while minimizing other aspects, such as individual autonomy and denominational distinctions, of their religious identity. However in order to cope with the tension between their salient religious identity and their contraceptive decision making women utilizing multiple mechanisms. Specifically, they made boundaries around which types of contraception were acceptable and limits to church or individual authority; they justified their decisions based on medical necessity or betrayal they felt from the church; they legitimated their decisions by discussing God’s control and their husband’s perceptions of NFP; and they normalized their decisions through their desire to care for their children and be sexually intimate with their husbands. This research illuminates unique challenges that religious women face in their sexual decision making and sexual health practices that can help sex educators and health care providers care for women. Additionally, the Catholic Church and American Catholics make up huge forces in education, health care, charity, politics, and employment. However, not all Catholics follow the rules of the church. Those members who remain an active part of the Catholic Church, such as the practicing Catholics in this study can influence the way the church changes. By better understanding the experience of these dissenters, social researchers may be able to better understand the future of the Catholic Church.

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"Cecilia's Mirror: the Role of the Pipe Organ in the Catholic Church of the United States in the Aftermath of Vatican II." Doctoral diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.8632.

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abstract: The organ in the Catholic Church of the United States is a mirror of its time, reflecting the various challenges facing Catholic liturgy today. In some cases, it reflects the rich patrimony of European immigrants, anxious to replicate the liturgical conditions they left behind. In others, it reflects the efforts of liturgical reformers to "update" the liturgy, creating more opportunities for what they understand to be active participation of the faithful. The absence of the organ in some American Catholic churches, particularly, in the time following the liturgical reforms of Vatican II, raises questions on the direction of sacred music in these churches as well as the survival and viability of the organ as the principal musical instrument of the Catholic liturgy. In all, the organ in American Catholic churches serves as a gauge of the current liturgical climate, and, in a broader sense, the direction and viability of the Catholic Church in America. In this paper, I argue that the survival of the organ in American Catholic churches depends largely on the number of Catholics who continue to remain active in the Church, as well as their views on liturgy, and their musical formation. While recent figures indicate a gradual decline in membership in the Catholic Church among younger generations, interest in organ and traditional Catholic sacred music by some Catholics may ensure the organ's continued presence. The extent to which some groups implement liturgical directives of Pope Benedict XVI, and the activities of groups that support traditional Roman Catholic liturgy, play a role in the organ's continued survival. Also crucial are those who support the organ for its own artistic and musical merit, including contemporary composers of liturgical organ music, organ students in Catholic higher education programs, and organ builders. As opposed to total extinction, the use of the organ in American Catholic churches may take on a new shape, surrounded by a church that struggles to reconcile modern culture with the transcendent.
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D.M.A. Performance 2010

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Bruss, Melanie E. "An exploratory study on the vocation discernment of women in a Latin American religious order." 2013. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1709515.

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This ethnographic case study explored the vocation discernment process for Latina women who have entered a religious order. The researcher spent three months participating in and observing the daily lives of religious sisters and conducted interviews. The eight religious sisters interviewed for the study were predominately of Mexican and Central America descent. Similar to Lester’s (2005) findings, sisters describe persistent feelings of inquietud before entering the religious life, and sought fulfillment through religious means. Participants often feel joy and admiration when they met a religious sister for the first time. Participants recount a religious or sensory experience which provided clarity to her decision. The participants indicate a sense of urgency to enter the religious life as soon as possible. The results are compared with other studies on religious life and vocation discernment through a sociological and psychosocial perspective.
Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services

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