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What's a Catholic? | |
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Can You Judge a Catholic by the Cover? | |
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Why You Might Be Interested | |
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What Catholics Believe | |
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Same Church Different Pews | |
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What You Have to Do | |
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The Classic Definition | |
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The People: Many Faces, Many Flags | |
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Would I Know One If I Saw One? | |
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So Where Would I Find a Catholic? | |
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Catholicism: It's a Big Tent | |
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Image: The Power of the Press | |
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From Bing to Bono | |
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From Bishop Sheen to Dan Berrigan | |
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From Cesar Chavez to Clarence Thomas | |
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The Vatican: The Church That's a Country | |
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Just Who Is the Pope? | |
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The Big Church and the Little Church | |
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Rules and Regulations | |
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The '60s: Seeds of Revolution | |
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The Stillness Before the Storm | |
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Church as Listener | |
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Ecumenism: Catholics' Relationship to Other Christians | |
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Conscience Reigns Supreme | |
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A Painful Side Effect of Vatican II: Loss of Tradition | |
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Putting the "Ism" in Catholicism: Becoming Catholic, Becoming Different | |
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"It's Elementary, My Dear Watson" | |
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Ritual: The Old Religion, Roots, and Renewal | |
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"Yada, Yada, Yada" | |
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Influences of the Greeks, Romans, and Indigenous Peoples | |
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The Bible | |
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Sacred Scriptures | |
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The Canon: How Are We Sure What Texts Are Sacred? | |
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All God's Children | |
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Jesus: Spirit of a New Religion | |
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How We Know What We Know About Jesus | |
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The Key Stories of the Christians | |
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Was Jesus the First Catholic? | |
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Catholics Separate from the Jews | |
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The Sensuous Side of Catholicism: How Catholics Experience God | |
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Catholic Imagination: The Sacred Space of Ritual | |
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What Is Ritual and Why Do Catholics "Do" It? | |
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The Theology of Catholic Ritual | |
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Imagination: Tasting, Touching, Smelling God | |
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Sacred Elements: Air, Earth, Fire, and Water | |
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When No One Is Watching | |
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Jesus: The Original Sacrament | |
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Omnipresence: The Catholic Sacramental Principle | |
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Church as Sacrament | |
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Religion: The Marriage of Form and Spirit | |
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Ignatius Loyola's Spiritual Exercises: A Journey into Sensual Imagination | |
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Seven Sensual Sacraments | |
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Baptism: More Than Just Water on the Head | |
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Eucharist: First Holy Communion | |
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Confirmation: It's No Longer a Slap on the Face | |
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Menage a Trois: It's More Than Just Two in a Marriage | |
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Holy Orders: More Than Just Oil on the Fingers | |
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Penance: More Than Just a Kick in the Pants | |
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Anointing of the Sick: More Than a Simple Good-Bye | |
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Who Is Mary? | |
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Do Catholics Workship Mary? | |
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Mary, the People's Choice | |
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Mary's Incomplete History | |
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Council of Ephesus | |
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Apparitions: Here, There, and Everywhere | |
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Feasts and Devotions to Mary | |
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Imagination and Prayer | |
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Feeding the Imagination | |
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Sacramentals: Little Sacraments | |
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Sacramental Gestures | |
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The Liturgical Calendar: Sacred Time | |
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Celebrating the Final Journey | |
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Catholic Prayers and Music: Tangible Poetry | |
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Personal Prayer | |
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The Rosary | |
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Monasteries, Mysticism, and Contemplative Prayer | |
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Liturgy of the Hours | |
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Sacred Music | |
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The Mass: The Catholics' Big Dinner Party | |
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Celebration or Sacrifice: What Is the Mass? | |
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The Liturgy of the Word | |
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The Liturgy of the Eucharist | |
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The Eucharist: Feeding the Flock | |
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Here's the Church, and Here's the Steeple, Open the Doors, and See All the People! | |
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Catholic Identity: How Are Catholics Wired? | |
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It's a Tribe | |
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Where the Tribe Meets | |
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Catholics' Social Face | |
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Getting In and Out of the Tribe | |
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The Teaching Church: More Than Just a Slap with the Ruler | |
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The Sources of the Church's Teaching: Scripture and Tradition | |
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Theology: Faith Seeking Reason | |
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Bargains from the Border: Liberation Theology and Base Communities | |
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Stirring the Pot of Change | |
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The Catholic Church's Best-Kept Secret: Social Justice | |
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Lucy's Enlightenment | |
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Charitable Work and Social Activism | |
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Religion and Politics: Beyond Polite Conversation | |
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The Nine Themes in Catholic Social Teaching | |
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Dorothy Day and The Catholic Worker Movement | |
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Conclusion: The Church Today | |
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The Teachings of the Church: Moving Beyond Sin | |
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Sin: Missing the Mark | |
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Human Sexuality: "Male and Female He Created Them" | |
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The Seamless Garment | |
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The Church: Moving from Steeple to People | |
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A Call to Hierarchical Communion | |
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The Unified Church | |
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Vocation: No Family Is Complete Without One | |
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Religious Orders: Know Your Players | |
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Lay Vocation: What About the Rest of the Folks? | |
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The Church's History | |
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The Roman Establishment | |
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From Underdog to Top Dog | |
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Christianity Comes to Your Hometown | |
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From Rationality to Mysticism | |
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A New Empire Is Born | |
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Division, Debauchery, and Reform: The Church's Second Millennium | |
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Catholic and Orthodox: The Church's Y1K Problem | |
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Catholicism's Dark Side | |
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Problems, Protest, and Protestants | |
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Trendy Trent: Going to Reform School | |
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The Church Turns Its Face to the New World | |
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The Birth of the Church in the New Land | |
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Colonization: Ready or Not, Here We Come! | |
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A New People Emerges | |
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Cultural Contributions to Today's Catholicism | |
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Catholics Earn Their Citizenship | |
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Catholicism and Colonial America: There Goes the Neighborhood! | |
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Coming in Droves: The Immigrant Experience | |
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A Checkered Church Solidifies | |
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Catholics Come of Age | |
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A Look to the Future | |
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Catholic Sexuality: The Church's Dirty Little Secret? | |
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Sex, Lies, and Vatican Tapes | |
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Our Legacy: Dualism and the Mind/Body Split | |
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Clericalism: The Secret Culture | |
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Sexual Imagination (Thou Shall ...) | |
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Face-to-Face in the Third Millennium: The Church Looks to the Future | |
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Recap: Past, Present, and Future | |
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The Church Is One | |
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The Church Is Holy | |
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The Church Is Catholic | |
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The Church Is Apostolic | |
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The New Generations: Passing the Cup | |
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Incarnation: Celebrating Life | |
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In Conclusion | |
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Appendixes | |
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Glossary | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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Index | |