Future of Catholicism in America

Patricia O’Connell Killen is professor of religious studies at Gonzaga University. Her books include The Art of Theological Reflection (1994) and Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone (2004).Mark Silk is professor of religion in public life and director of the Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College. He is the author of Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America (1995) and coeditor of Religion by Region, an eight-volume series on religion and public life in the United States, among others.

• Series Editors’ Introduction: The Future of Religion in America, by Mark Silk and Andrew H. WalshIntroduction: The Future of Roman Catholicism in the United States: Beyond the Subculture, by Patricia O’Connell Killen1. Catholicism Today: Adrift and/or Adjusting, by William D. Dinges2. Becoming Latino: The Transformation of U.S. Catholicism, by Timothy Matovina3. Since Vatican II: American Catholicism in Transition, by Steven M. Avella4. Who Pastors: The Priest, the Context, and the Ministry, by Katarina Schuth5. A Pluriform Unity: A Historian’s View of the Contemporary Church, by Joseph P. Chinnici6. Catholic Worship in a Contentious Age, by Andrew H. Walsh7. Public Catholicism: Contemporary Presence and Future Promise, by Richard L. WoodConclusion: The Shape of the American Catholic Future, by Patricia O’Connell KillenList of ContributorsIndex

The book provides an excellent and also sobering view of Catholicism in America and its future.