Church Resource

  • Doug Billingsly
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    I’m starting a new street level campaign and it looks like the catholic church is going to play a huge roll in it. I have priests that work within the Vatican in various capacities. Problem is, I’m completely ignorant of how the church operates, specifically I need resources on the internal design of the church.

    I need to know how agents of the church are organized and directed. I’d like to know the difference between Jesuits, Fransicans, and any other groups.

    I don’t need detailed history, which is what I keep finding, just current workings of the church. Thanks.

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  • Wiretrippa
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    You could probably do worse than a bit of Goggle-whacking. Hit it up for relevant keywords, and then tighten your search after the first, inevitable, ‘your query returned 180,000 results’

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  • Chance Lauziere-Peterson
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    I’m Catholic…….

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  • Doug Billingsly
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    Any ideas on the inner workings of the church then? Like what makes a jesuit a jesuit? I can find oodles of back history, but nothing about what makes the difference today.

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  • Wiretrippa
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    Perhaps an archival search on a prominent magazine, such as Time. They’re scupulously good at keeping their past issues available, and probably have a built-in search function.

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  • PopularConcept
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    I suggest you check out the wonderful http://www.xrefer.com/ an online repository for reference books. I’m sure will be able to find out some useful stuff there.

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  • Nick Wedig
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    You might want to seek out a copy of the “Constitution on the Church of Vatican Council II”. That should tell you most of what you’d want to know, I’d think. You can get a copy used from amazon for about $5, and might want to look into some of the other books talking about the results of Vatican II.

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