Committed by Choice: Religious Life Today

'Committed by Choice' examines the nature of "the Choice" today to be religious in light of conflicting images of success and autonomy in society. The author looks at the transition in which religious congregations find themselves after thirty years of renewal efforts and asks, What are the next steps? How do religious combine, in the language of their vows, the basic religious experience that grounds them and commitment to the poor, the Church, and global justice that their vows inspire? The book treats the future of community life, a community's relationship to the Church, and the new partnerships being formed through the reorganization of religious congregations and through new forms of association today.