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Crisis Facing Inner City Catholic Parishes Introduction America's

America's inner-city Catholic Churches are in crisis, a crisis which can, at least in part, be redressed through the restructuring and reconfiguration of parishes (Murnion & Wenzel, 1989). The proposed study addresses the crisis facing inner city Catholic parishes in two ways.

First, the study develops a structural model for the design and operation of inner-city Catholic parishes and churches in need of renewal and revitalization. Second (because restructuring, to be successful, must be acceptable), it is proposed that the acceptability of the developed model be assessed using a large sample of inner-city priests and parishioners.

Acceptability levels will be computed for both groups (priests and parishioners) and comparisons will be made for each of the recommended restructuring strategies. Based on the analysis of these acceptability ratings, several recommendations for structural changes will be formulated for inner city Catholic parishes.

According to Kozol (1991), America's inner cities are in increasing jeopardy. These areas suffer from poverty, as well as segregated and unequal public education. Specifically, Kozol reports that there is a spiritual, racial, and economic isolation that plagues the inner cities, the hallmarks of which are the loss of factories and business in the areas, and the increase in gangs and gang violence.

Peterson (1985) echoes Kozol's (1991) remarks. Specifically, Peterson describes inner cities as places where minority groups are increasing isolated, where there are declining economic opportunities for unskilled, blue collar workers, a growing urban underclass of unemployable, minority poor, patterns of ghettoization and suburbanization, and an ever rising rate of crime.

Like the inner cities themselves, the Catholic inner city parish also finds itself in crisis. As Murnion and Wenzel (1989) put it:

Drastic changes in urban neighborhoods in recent decades, especial...

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