Underground Church

Kathleen Kautzer, Ph.D. (1988) in Social Policy, Brandeis University, is Associate Professor of Sociology at Regis College in Weston, MA. Her publications cover social and religious movements and labor unions.

• Series Editor’s Preface Foreword by Ed StevensPrefaceAbbreviations of Catholic Reform GroupsIntroductionPART I: BURNED OUT, BUMMED OUT, AND THROWN OUT: PROGRESSIVE REFORMERS BEGIN THEIR WILDERNESS JOURNEY1. Sower of Mustard Seeds: Call to Action 2. Rebuilding the Temple: Voice of the Faithful 3. Leaving Egypt: DignityUSA, Corps of Reserve Priests United for Service, Catholic Organizations for Renewal 4. Catholic Feminists Confront Goliath: Women’s Ordination Conference, Women’s Ordination Worldwide, Women-Church Convergence, Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual, Catholics for a Free Choice 5. Toward a New City of GodPART II: TESTING THE WATERS AND PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES6. Prophets without Honor: Vatican II Pastors Are Disappearing7. What, Therefore, Belongs to Caesar? Marginal CommunitiesPART III: NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND8. The Catacombs Revisited: Underground Catholic Faith Communities9. Something New Under the Sun? Underground Parishes- ConclusionAPPENDICESAppendix A: Comparative Data on Vatican II Reform Organizations Appendix B: Field ResearchReferencesIndex

"This is an excellent study based on an extensive field work, representing in a very accurate and unbiased way the reality of the Catholic Reform Movement in USA." – Lluis Oviedo, in: Catholic Books Review"This study will be of historic importance for future research. As if this were not enough to recommend it, the study also has an exceptional literary quality and a fine methodological even-handedness." – Matthew Del Nevo, in: Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review 74/1, pp. 136-137