The Faithful Departed

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.

Philip F. Lawler is editor of Catholic World News.

Introduction : the good of the church	p. 1
The Catholic century
The Irish conquest	p. 21
Under new management	p. 33
Good neighbors	p. 43
Personally opposed, but	p. 53
Shifting foundations
The center cannot hold	p. 67
Waiting for Roe	p. 77
Moving out of the Catholic ghetto	p. 87
"Southie won't go"	p. 97
Lost battles	p. 107
Habits of denial	p. 123
The collapse
The learning curve	p. 137
Not enough millstones	p. 147
Lost in Dallas	p. 163
The death watch	p. 175
Ruin
Generations betrayed	p. 191
The Beacon Hill massacre	p. 203
Restoration
The wrong explanations	p. 223
The Dash-2 bishops	p. 233
The church militant	p. 247
Further reading	p. 259
Acknowledgements	p. 263
Index	p. 265
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