@article{2004:shields:moral_disc,
title = {Moral Discourse within the Church. An Essential Dimension of Social Communication},
year = {2004},
note = {On the background of Catholics facing a crisis in moral leadership in
Canada and the United States strengtherred by the revelation of
clerical sexual abuse and its cover-up by many bishops, the author
points at a discrepancy between the moral teachings of the Church
authorities and the indifference of the people. He therefore proposes
to examine the question of social communication within the Church for
developing an effective moral discourse. Using the insights of social
sciences, he shows that sharing moral conscience and knowing socially
how to respond to evil and work towards good, is essential to the
healty functioning of religion. He suggests to find an effective
official structure of moral social communication by fastering
"communities of practice", as they are presently known in corporate
thinking.},
journal = {Communicatio Socialis (ComSoc)},
pages = {245--260},
author = {Shields, Richard},
volume = {37},
number = {3}
}