A renewed mission: How Catholic universities, charities and hospitals could reboot a Catholic subculture in this country

[quiet52]

A long article but worth reading.

**A renewed mission: How Catholic universities, charities and hospitals could reboot a Catholic subculture in this country

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excerpt:

Battered by market forces, winds of social change, secularist antipathy and post-Second Vatican Council conflicts in the Church, the institutional ministries inherited from earlier Catholic generations exhibit mission fatigue, must often struggle to stay in business, and find it hard to locate, much less hire and retain, enough faithful Catholics to sustain a vibrant Catholic identity.

To some observers, this points to a difficult but inescapable conclusion: It’s time for a new, evangelical set of institutional ministries to meet the needs of Church and society in the 21st century and give perspicuous witness to the Gospel. This shift would provide support and badly needed direction to a newly emerging American Catholic subculture that currently exhibits disturbing limitations and blind spots.

 

[Robert_Bay]

Opinion article, not a news article