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Description
The Catholic Church has never been so deeply immersed in crisis - crisis of authority, priestly scandal, celibacy, hierarchy - stretching right up to the Vatican itself.
Most people in authority are keeping quiet or squabbling among themselves.
Mark Dooley is a Professor of Philosophy who is also a serious commentator, journalist and broadcaster. He has written a book of hope for those who have none.
It is, he argues, only when the sacramental life of the local parishes is revitalised that renewal in the Church can be achieved.
Table of Contents
1. The Flame of Faith
2. What Do We Believe?
3. Getting Back to Basics
4. From Boredom to Beauty
5. What It Means to be a Parishioner
6. What It Means to be a Priest
7. Solace in the Sacraments
8. From Prayer to Paradise
9. The Road to Rome
10. Do This in Memory of Me
Conclusion
Product details
Published | 23 Jun 2011 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 136 |
ISBN | 9781441110428 |
Imprint | Burns & Oates |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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[a] beautifully written book... In the times in which we live, to write as Dooley has done takes courage. As you read this book you may be edified, you may be enraged; one thing you won't be is bored.
Irish Mail on Sunday
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[Mark Dooley is] well-qualified to get to the heart of the matters that trouble so many today: why bother with being a Catholic.
The Irish Catholic
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Why Be a Catholic? courageously confronts what must be done if Catholicism is to survive as a religion of redemption.
Eoghan Harris, Sunday Independent
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This is a timely book that seeks to revitalise a faith that it all too apt to flag in this time of crisis. Dooley faces up to the clerical sex-abuse scandals, but shows us a church that still keeps the flame of faith alive... [his] heartfelt plea deserves to be heard.
The Tablet