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The years 1987 and 1990 saw the publication of two unprecedented and immediately popular reference works, The New Dictionary of Theology and The New Dictionary of Sacramental Worship. The present work, The New Dictionary of Catholic Spirituality, edited by Michael Downey, is intended as a companion to these, with a parallel aim and purpose. The NDCS is a collaborative attempt to take stock of the...

and educational professions are most operative, supported by social institutions like government and organized religion. The third level is moral and spiritual. This pertains to a person’s sense of right and wrong and attitude toward the meaning of life, especially when faced with its termination in death. Here religious and spiritual ministry is distinctively operative, although the psychological and educational professions have major contributions to make as well. All three levels interpenetrate
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