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Inside story of the battles between the Vatican and US Catholic bishops over the rampant closings of Catholic parishes in poor and ethnically diverse neighborhoods across the U.S.-and the social justice advocate and canon lawyer Sister Kate Kuenstler who led the fight to keep them open.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Context - A Church in Crisis
Chapter Two: Seeds of a Prophetic Life
Chapter Three: Canon Law Studies in Rome
Chapter Four: Catholics Discover They Have Rights
Chapter Five: Advocate for the Laity- St. Mary Jamesville, NY
Chapter Six: Making a Way Where There Was No Way
Chapter Seven: In the Diocese of Cleveland, Catholics Rise Up
Chapter Eight: Parishioners Persevere
Chapter Nine: A Landmark Ruling - Rome Upholds Cleveland Appeals
Chapter Ten: Bringing Forth a Harvest
Chapter Eleven: "Making All Things Revenue" - Archdiocese of New York
Chapter Twelve: Perseverance, Pain, and the Will of God
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the author
Sister Christine Schenk has worked as a nurse midwife to low-income families, a community organizer, a writer-researcher, and the founding director of an international church reform organization, FutureChurch. Currently she writes an award-winning column for the National Catholic Reporter. Schenk is the author of Crispina and Her Sisters: Women and Authority in Early Christianity (2017), which received first place in the history category from the Catholic Press Association. Her most recent book, To Speak the Truth in Love: A Biography of Sr. Theresa Kane RSM (2019) won first place in biography from The Association of Catholic Publishers and a first place in biography from the Catholic Press Association. She is featured in the award-winning documentary Radical Grace and the 2017 documentary Foreclosing on Faith: America’s Church Closing Crisis which documents the pioneering canonical advocacy of the late Sr. Kate Kuenstler, which changed Vatican policy around church closings.
