Voices
William D. Dinges is a professor of religious studies in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America. He is currently completing a book on disaffiliation among American Catholics.
FaithFaith and Reason
Rejection of the church is rooted in (among other things) a fundamental misunderstanding of what the church has actually taught.
Growing up Catholic in the 1950’s, my first understanding of the term mission centered around pagan babies, milk-carton penny collections and stories of religious in full habit harvesting souls abroad. Only later did I discover that the term included Home Missions in the United States.These mi
