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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 | |