Church in Our Times

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course explores key issues and challenges facing the Catholic Church in the 21st century. Specific topics include models for understanding the Church (especially at Vatican II), the clerical sex-abuse crisis, ecumenism, Catholic-Jewish relations, inter-religious dialogue and Pope Francis’s vision for human fraternity, women and feminism, religious disaffiliation among young people, the crisis of authority, Catholic social teaching, immigration and the global south, the Church’s relationship with politics and authoritarianism, and fundamentalism and traditionalism.