No Closure : Catholic Practice and Boston's Parish Shutdowns.
Seitz, John C.
No Closure : Catholic Practice and Boston's Parish Shutdowns. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (323 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Closings -- 1. The Pasts Living in People -- 2. Divergent Histories: Change and the Making of Resistors, 1950-2004 -- 3. "What do we have?" Locales and Objects in the Hands of the People of God -- 4. "This is unrest territory": Orthodoxy and Opposition in Resistors' Practice of the Parish -- 5. Openings -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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 reconsider the past and its meanings.
9780674061316
Catholic Church.-Archdiocese of Boston (Mass.)-History.
Church closures-Massachusetts-Boston-History-21st century.
Parishes-Massachusetts-Boston-History.
Boston (Mass.)-Church history.
Electronic books.
BX1417
254/.02
No Closure : Catholic Practice and Boston's Parish Shutdowns. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (323 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Closings -- 1. The Pasts Living in People -- 2. Divergent Histories: Change and the Making of Resistors, 1950-2004 -- 3. "What do we have?" Locales and Objects in the Hands of the People of God -- 4. "This is unrest territory": Orthodoxy and Opposition in Resistors' Practice of the Parish -- 5. Openings -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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 reconsider the past and its meanings.
9780674061316
Catholic Church.-Archdiocese of Boston (Mass.)-History.
Church closures-Massachusetts-Boston-History-21st century.
Parishes-Massachusetts-Boston-History.
Boston (Mass.)-Church history.
Electronic books.
BX1417
254/.02