Andrew D. Brown
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198205210
- eISBN:
- 9780191676550
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205210.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History, History of Religion
This book is a study of the religious practices of lay people within a distinctive and relatively unexplored region that once formed the diocese of Salisbury. It explores lay piety in its contexts of ...
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This book is a study of the religious practices of lay people within a distinctive and relatively unexplored region that once formed the diocese of Salisbury. It explores lay piety in its contexts of landscape, society, and the church, and examines the many different issues and activities that were of contemporary importance, such as religious guilds, charity, and heresy. It shows how regional variations in social and economic structure affected parish life, and concludes with an important assessment of the reception of the Reformation in the diocese. This is the first scholarly study of the lay religion of this region, and its broad chronological range of sources and meticulously researched local focus offer illuminating insights into medieval piety over the centuries.Less
This book is a study of the religious practices of lay people within a distinctive and relatively unexplored region that once formed the diocese of Salisbury. It explores lay piety in its contexts of landscape, society, and the church, and examines the many different issues and activities that were of contemporary importance, such as religious guilds, charity, and heresy. It shows how regional variations in social and economic structure affected parish life, and concludes with an important assessment of the reception of the Reformation in the diocese. This is the first scholarly study of the lay religion of this region, and its broad chronological range of sources and meticulously researched local focus offer illuminating insights into medieval piety over the centuries.
Matthew Butler
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197262986
- eISBN:
- 9780191734656
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197262986.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter explores the divergent forms of religious culture and parish life which characterised the region of Michoacán, Mexico in the 1920s. It explains that the despite the best efforts to ...
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This chapter explores the divergent forms of religious culture and parish life which characterised the region of Michoacán, Mexico in the 1920s. It explains that the despite the best efforts to revolutionary priest-baiters, the Church exercised an omnipresent influence in 1920s Michoacán and the landscape was everywhere dotted with roadside crosses, church towers, and village sanctuaries. By the mid-1920s, Michoacán was not simply a divided political constituency but a mosaic of mutable parish identities which were based on varying degrees of religious participation, distinct popular attitudes to the sacraments and varying relationships to the parish clergy.Less
This chapter explores the divergent forms of religious culture and parish life which characterised the region of Michoacán, Mexico in the 1920s. It explains that the despite the best efforts to revolutionary priest-baiters, the Church exercised an omnipresent influence in 1920s Michoacán and the landscape was everywhere dotted with roadside crosses, church towers, and village sanctuaries. By the mid-1920s, Michoacán was not simply a divided political constituency but a mosaic of mutable parish identities which were based on varying degrees of religious participation, distinct popular attitudes to the sacraments and varying relationships to the parish clergy.
Adrian Davies
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198208204
- eISBN:
- 9780191677953
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208204.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, History of Religion
The early Quakers denounced the clergy and social élite but how did that affect Friends' relationships with others? Drawing upon the insights of sociologists and ...
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The early Quakers denounced the clergy and social élite but how did that affect Friends' relationships with others? Drawing upon the insights of sociologists and anthropologists, this study sets out to discover the social consequences of religious belief. Why did the sect appoint its own midwives to attend Quaker women during confinement? Was animosity to Quakerism so great that Friends were excluded from involvement in parish life? And to what extent were the remarkably high literacy rates of Quakers attributable to the Quaker faith or wider social forces? Using a wide range of primary source material, this study demonstrates that Quakers were not the marginal and isolated people that contemporaries and historians often portrayed. Indeed the sect had a profound impact not only upon members, but more widely by encouraging a greater tolerance of diversity in early modern society.Less
The early Quakers denounced the clergy and social élite but how did that affect Friends' relationships with others? Drawing upon the insights of sociologists and anthropologists, this study sets out to discover the social consequences of religious belief. Why did the sect appoint its own midwives to attend Quaker women during confinement? Was animosity to Quakerism so great that Friends were excluded from involvement in parish life? And to what extent were the remarkably high literacy rates of Quakers attributable to the Quaker faith or wider social forces? Using a wide range of primary source material, this study demonstrates that Quakers were not the marginal and isolated people that contemporaries and historians often portrayed. Indeed the sect had a profound impact not only upon members, but more widely by encouraging a greater tolerance of diversity in early modern society.
Gary J. Adler Jr., Tricia C. Bruce, and Brian Starks (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780823284351
- eISBN:
- 9780823285952
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823284351.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Parishes are the missing middle in studies of American Catholicism. Between individual Catholics and a global institution, the thousands of local parishes are where Catholicism gets remade. American ...
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Parishes are the missing middle in studies of American Catholicism. Between individual Catholics and a global institution, the thousands of local parishes are where Catholicism gets remade. American Parishes showcases what social forces shape parishes, what parishes do, how they do it, and what this says about the future of Catholicism in the United States. Expounding an embedded field approach, this book displays the forces currently reshaping American parishes. It draws from sociology of religion, culture, organizations, and race to illuminate basic parish processes—like leadership and education—and ongoing parish struggles—like conflict and multiculturalism. American Parishes brings together contemporary data, methods, and questions to establish a sociological reengagement with Catholic parishes and a Catholic reengagement with sociological analysis. This book highlights how community, geography, and authority intersect within parishes. It illuminates and analyzes how growing racial diversity, an aging religious population, and neighborhood change influence the inner workings of parishes. Five parts explore thematic topics: (1) seeing parishes with a sociological lens; (2) parish trends; (3) race, class, and diversity in parish life; (4) young Catholics in (and out) of parishes; and (5) the practice and future of a sociology of Catholic parishes. Contributors explore the history of sociological studies on parishes; consider parish research vis-à-vis the larger field of congregational studies; empirically examine parishes using multiple methods; highlight parish diversity and particularity; explore cultural and identity production within parishes; consider the tenuous relationship of younger Catholics to parishes; and provide direction for future sociological research on parishes.Less
Parishes are the missing middle in studies of American Catholicism. Between individual Catholics and a global institution, the thousands of local parishes are where Catholicism gets remade. American Parishes showcases what social forces shape parishes, what parishes do, how they do it, and what this says about the future of Catholicism in the United States. Expounding an embedded field approach, this book displays the forces currently reshaping American parishes. It draws from sociology of religion, culture, organizations, and race to illuminate basic parish processes—like leadership and education—and ongoing parish struggles—like conflict and multiculturalism. American Parishes brings together contemporary data, methods, and questions to establish a sociological reengagement with Catholic parishes and a Catholic reengagement with sociological analysis. This book highlights how community, geography, and authority intersect within parishes. It illuminates and analyzes how growing racial diversity, an aging religious population, and neighborhood change influence the inner workings of parishes. Five parts explore thematic topics: (1) seeing parishes with a sociological lens; (2) parish trends; (3) race, class, and diversity in parish life; (4) young Catholics in (and out) of parishes; and (5) the practice and future of a sociology of Catholic parishes. Contributors explore the history of sociological studies on parishes; consider parish research vis-à-vis the larger field of congregational studies; empirically examine parishes using multiple methods; highlight parish diversity and particularity; explore cultural and identity production within parishes; consider the tenuous relationship of younger Catholics to parishes; and provide direction for future sociological research on parishes.
Patrick Collinson
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198222989
- eISBN:
- 9780191678554
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198222989.003.0027
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, History of Religion
Where there was common fame of scandalous conduct in a member of the congregation, the puritan minister who was worth his salt would attempt on his own authority to apply what he conceived to be the ...
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Where there was common fame of scandalous conduct in a member of the congregation, the puritan minister who was worth his salt would attempt on his own authority to apply what he conceived to be the evangelical remedy. John Johnson of Northampton was to describe in the Star Chamber how his fellow-townsman Edmund Snape had dealt with a parishioner suspected of incontinence. The performance of public penance for sexual misdemeanours was a familiar part of Elizabethan parish life: the offender, arrayed in a white sheet, stood before the congregation and made his or her public confession at an appropriate point in the service, often spoiling the solemnity of the proceedings by some revelation of a far from penitent spirit. But only the bishop or the archdeacon had the legal power to apply this kind of discipline.Less
Where there was common fame of scandalous conduct in a member of the congregation, the puritan minister who was worth his salt would attempt on his own authority to apply what he conceived to be the evangelical remedy. John Johnson of Northampton was to describe in the Star Chamber how his fellow-townsman Edmund Snape had dealt with a parishioner suspected of incontinence. The performance of public penance for sexual misdemeanours was a familiar part of Elizabethan parish life: the offender, arrayed in a white sheet, stood before the congregation and made his or her public confession at an appropriate point in the service, often spoiling the solemnity of the proceedings by some revelation of a far from penitent spirit. But only the bishop or the archdeacon had the legal power to apply this kind of discipline.
Charles E. Zech, Mary L. Gautier, Mark M. Gray, John L. Wiggins, and Thomas P. Gaunt
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190645168
- eISBN:
- 9780190645199
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190645168.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter describes the experience and opinions of Catholics in the pews. Important liturgical issues, such as the type of music being played, the quality of the homilies, and reactions to ...
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This chapter describes the experience and opinions of Catholics in the pews. Important liturgical issues, such as the type of music being played, the quality of the homilies, and reactions to liturgical change, are examined. Parishioners describe their attitude about being Catholic, what attracts them to their parish and how satisfied or dissatisfied they are with aspects of their parish. They evaluate their parish according to nine essential elements of parish life. The chapter also investigates parishioner attitudes about parish leadership and the direction of the parish as well as the types and quality of parish programs and services. These include the various parish ministries and community-building outreach activities, such as evangelization and communication as well as attitudes about cultural diversity.Less
This chapter describes the experience and opinions of Catholics in the pews. Important liturgical issues, such as the type of music being played, the quality of the homilies, and reactions to liturgical change, are examined. Parishioners describe their attitude about being Catholic, what attracts them to their parish and how satisfied or dissatisfied they are with aspects of their parish. They evaluate their parish according to nine essential elements of parish life. The chapter also investigates parishioner attitudes about parish leadership and the direction of the parish as well as the types and quality of parish programs and services. These include the various parish ministries and community-building outreach activities, such as evangelization and communication as well as attitudes about cultural diversity.
Charles E. Zech, Mary L. Gautier, Mark M. Gray, John L. Wiggins, and Thomas P. Gaunt
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190645168
- eISBN:
- 9780190645199
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190645168.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The introduction presents a brief overview of the 1985 Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life and how the authors of this book build on and update the many topics identified 30 years ago. Many ...
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The introduction presents a brief overview of the 1985 Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life and how the authors of this book build on and update the many topics identified 30 years ago. Many other topics such as multicultural parishes, parishes administered by someone other than a priest, parish finances, and the increased use of lay ecclesial ministers in parish ministry, which were just beginning to appear in parishes 30 years ago are covered in greater detail in this book The introduction lays out the plan for how the book covers these newer topics of cultural diversity, changing ministerial roles, and evolving parish structures.Less
The introduction presents a brief overview of the 1985 Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life and how the authors of this book build on and update the many topics identified 30 years ago. Many other topics such as multicultural parishes, parishes administered by someone other than a priest, parish finances, and the increased use of lay ecclesial ministers in parish ministry, which were just beginning to appear in parishes 30 years ago are covered in greater detail in this book The introduction lays out the plan for how the book covers these newer topics of cultural diversity, changing ministerial roles, and evolving parish structures.
Brett C. Hoover
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780823284351
- eISBN:
- 9780823285952
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823284351.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Catholic parishes in the United States are complex organizations (where multiple communities coexist and interact). Relying on participant observation, in-depth interviews, and a case study approach, ...
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Catholic parishes in the United States are complex organizations (where multiple communities coexist and interact). Relying on participant observation, in-depth interviews, and a case study approach, this chapter explores three parishes in Southern California that showcase the complexity of interactions among different racial and ethnic communities. These parishes are shared in various configurations by white, Latino, Black, and Asian parishioners, and this chapter illuminates the power dynamics of race and ethnicity as they work themselves out in American life. In shared parishes, the cultural work of constructing Catholic identity necessarily involves deploying distinct cultural expressions of Catholicism shaped by broader power dynamics of race, ethnicity, and language. This chapter lays bare this process as parishes illustrate power-in-action, with parish interactions variously producing, perpetuating, and challenging existing power dynamics and race relations.Less
Catholic parishes in the United States are complex organizations (where multiple communities coexist and interact). Relying on participant observation, in-depth interviews, and a case study approach, this chapter explores three parishes in Southern California that showcase the complexity of interactions among different racial and ethnic communities. These parishes are shared in various configurations by white, Latino, Black, and Asian parishioners, and this chapter illuminates the power dynamics of race and ethnicity as they work themselves out in American life. In shared parishes, the cultural work of constructing Catholic identity necessarily involves deploying distinct cultural expressions of Catholicism shaped by broader power dynamics of race, ethnicity, and language. This chapter lays bare this process as parishes illustrate power-in-action, with parish interactions variously producing, perpetuating, and challenging existing power dynamics and race relations.
Michael Haren
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198208518
- eISBN:
- 9780191678042
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208518.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History, Social History
The interrogatories for the clerical order in the Memoriale Presbiterorum begin in the traditional manner with the religious. The author devotes separate sections to the simple religious, and to ...
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The interrogatories for the clerical order in the Memoriale Presbiterorum begin in the traditional manner with the religious. The author devotes separate sections to the simple religious, and to ‘claustrales’, the religious holding cloistral office, and obedientiaries. The topics that form the basis of the Memoriale’s s interrogation of clerics derive from ecclesiastical law, common and local, and having many parallels in the literature of complaint. The general observations with which the author concludes his chapter on secular clerics, however, reveal a bias that is fundamental to his approach to the pastoral cure. He is aware that inadequacies on the part of secular clerics are regarded by the ‘religious’ that is in this context as being a justification for their interference in parish life.Less
The interrogatories for the clerical order in the Memoriale Presbiterorum begin in the traditional manner with the religious. The author devotes separate sections to the simple religious, and to ‘claustrales’, the religious holding cloistral office, and obedientiaries. The topics that form the basis of the Memoriale’s s interrogation of clerics derive from ecclesiastical law, common and local, and having many parallels in the literature of complaint. The general observations with which the author concludes his chapter on secular clerics, however, reveal a bias that is fundamental to his approach to the pastoral cure. He is aware that inadequacies on the part of secular clerics are regarded by the ‘religious’ that is in this context as being a justification for their interference in parish life.
John A. Coleman, Gary J. Adler Jr., Tricia C. Bruce, and Brian Starks
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780823284351
- eISBN:
- 9780823285952
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823284351.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
This chapter is a dialogue with and reflection by John A. Coleman, S.J., a trained, well-published sociologist and Jesuit pastor in Northern California. In describing and exploring his own experience ...
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This chapter is a dialogue with and reflection by John A. Coleman, S.J., a trained, well-published sociologist and Jesuit pastor in Northern California. In describing and exploring his own experience as a sociologist and pastor, he models the kind of inquiry raised by previous chapters, applying them in a practical way to a single parish to which the author belongs. Through lived experience and his bipartite role as sociologist and parish priest, Fr. Coleman shares in a personal way his own approach to the study of Catholic parishes. The chapter contains numerous questions and tools for applied sociological parish studies.Less
This chapter is a dialogue with and reflection by John A. Coleman, S.J., a trained, well-published sociologist and Jesuit pastor in Northern California. In describing and exploring his own experience as a sociologist and pastor, he models the kind of inquiry raised by previous chapters, applying them in a practical way to a single parish to which the author belongs. Through lived experience and his bipartite role as sociologist and parish priest, Fr. Coleman shares in a personal way his own approach to the study of Catholic parishes. The chapter contains numerous questions and tools for applied sociological parish studies.
Charles E. Zech, Mary L. Gautier, Mark M. Gray, John L. Wiggins, and Thomas P. Gaunt
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190645168
- eISBN:
- 9780190645199
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190645168.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter examines options available in canon law to provide innovative parish staffing structures that offer new opportunities for pastoral leadership. These new structures include utilizing a ...
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This chapter examines options available in canon law to provide innovative parish staffing structures that offer new opportunities for pastoral leadership. These new structures include utilizing a team of priests (canon 517.1); assigning a nonpriest (deacon or lay person) administrator, typically called a parish life coordinator, to a parish (canon 517.2); or assigning one priest to pastor more than one parish (canon 526). Parishes can also be merged, creating even larger parishes out of the territory of two or more existing parishes. All of these options have their strengths and weaknesses. The chapter also presents the attitudes of parish leaders and parishioners who have been involved in such parish reconfigurations.Less
This chapter examines options available in canon law to provide innovative parish staffing structures that offer new opportunities for pastoral leadership. These new structures include utilizing a team of priests (canon 517.1); assigning a nonpriest (deacon or lay person) administrator, typically called a parish life coordinator, to a parish (canon 517.2); or assigning one priest to pastor more than one parish (canon 526). Parishes can also be merged, creating even larger parishes out of the territory of two or more existing parishes. All of these options have their strengths and weaknesses. The chapter also presents the attitudes of parish leaders and parishioners who have been involved in such parish reconfigurations.
Brett C. Hoover
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479854394
- eISBN:
- 9781479815760
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479854394.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter discusses four strategies parishioners at All Saints consistently used to make sense of parish life in an era of transformation: through frameworks for social order, though articulated ...
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This chapter discusses four strategies parishioners at All Saints consistently used to make sense of parish life in an era of transformation: through frameworks for social order, though articulated from clashing perspectives; by asserting identity through correct, that is, properly regulated worship; through popular religion reimagined and adapted to a different context; and via evangelization as a narrative of conversion. The first two ways—social order and correct ritual—occupied both cultural communities in a significant way. The second two—popular religion and evangelization—served the Latino community, engaged as they were in a more dramatic process of adaptation and change. All four strategies functioned as lenses for observing, understanding, and taking part in the transformed parish environment. Through them, people at All Saints responded religiously to the historical, cultural, and ecclesial context in which they found themselves, especially to the juxtaposition of two cultural worlds within the one city and parish.Less
This chapter discusses four strategies parishioners at All Saints consistently used to make sense of parish life in an era of transformation: through frameworks for social order, though articulated from clashing perspectives; by asserting identity through correct, that is, properly regulated worship; through popular religion reimagined and adapted to a different context; and via evangelization as a narrative of conversion. The first two ways—social order and correct ritual—occupied both cultural communities in a significant way. The second two—popular religion and evangelization—served the Latino community, engaged as they were in a more dramatic process of adaptation and change. All four strategies functioned as lenses for observing, understanding, and taking part in the transformed parish environment. Through them, people at All Saints responded religiously to the historical, cultural, and ecclesial context in which they found themselves, especially to the juxtaposition of two cultural worlds within the one city and parish.
Charles E. Zech, Mary L. Gautier, Mark M. Gray, Jonathon L. Wiggins, and Thomas P. Gaunt
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190645168
- eISBN:
- 9780190645199
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190645168.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
In the Catholic Church the local parish is where members experience religion firsthand. It is there that they worship, are educated in the faith, receive their sacraments, and form community. All ...
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In the Catholic Church the local parish is where members experience religion firsthand. It is there that they worship, are educated in the faith, receive their sacraments, and form community. All parishes are complex social organizations, combining varying elements of leadership, finances, worship styles, community outreach programs, and approaches to religious education, while being populated by diverse generational cohorts and ethnic groups, each with their own concerns and traditions. Nevertheless they are all members of the universal Church. While all parishes share some underlying commonalities, they are all are different. It is vitally important that church leaders understand the reality of local parish life. A seminal moment in the study of U.S. Catholic parish life came with the publication in the 1980s of a series of reports from the groundbreaking Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life. Much has changed in the last 30 years. Some of the topics that were not considered then (the mobility of Catholics, increasing cultural diversity, and the increase in lay leadership) have attained new significance and deserve an in-depth look. The authors employ data from a variety of recently completed studies to both update and expand on the Notre Dame Study. The data include factual information and parishioner opinions on parish activities. Like the Notre Dame Study, these findings will probably surprise many and hopefully contribute to the conversation about the way parishes can better serve their members and the wider parish community.Less
In the Catholic Church the local parish is where members experience religion firsthand. It is there that they worship, are educated in the faith, receive their sacraments, and form community. All parishes are complex social organizations, combining varying elements of leadership, finances, worship styles, community outreach programs, and approaches to religious education, while being populated by diverse generational cohorts and ethnic groups, each with their own concerns and traditions. Nevertheless they are all members of the universal Church. While all parishes share some underlying commonalities, they are all are different. It is vitally important that church leaders understand the reality of local parish life. A seminal moment in the study of U.S. Catholic parish life came with the publication in the 1980s of a series of reports from the groundbreaking Notre Dame Study of Catholic Parish Life. Much has changed in the last 30 years. Some of the topics that were not considered then (the mobility of Catholics, increasing cultural diversity, and the increase in lay leadership) have attained new significance and deserve an in-depth look. The authors employ data from a variety of recently completed studies to both update and expand on the Notre Dame Study. The data include factual information and parishioner opinions on parish activities. Like the Notre Dame Study, these findings will probably surprise many and hopefully contribute to the conversation about the way parishes can better serve their members and the wider parish community.