The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781594032110)

Faithful Departed traces the rise and fall of the Catholic Church in Boston, showing how the Massachusetts experience set a pattern that echoed throughout the United States as religious institutions lost influence in the face of rising secularization. The collapse of Catholicism in Boston became apparent with the explosion of the sex-abuse crisis. Lawler shows that the sex-abuse scandal was neither the cause nor the beginning of Catholicism's decline in Boston.

Author: Philip F. Lawler
ISBN-10: 1594032114
ISBN-13: 9781594032110
Publisher: Encounter Books
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2008
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 33