Practicing Catholic (CD)

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• Publisher: Brilliance Corporation
• ISBN: 1423387295
• WAPI (Tower ID): 112958651
• Release Date: April 1, 2009
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James Carroll's PRACTICING CATHOLIC draws on his life-long relationship with the Catholic Church--first as a young boy learning his catechism, then as a seminarian, and later as a priest--and finally as an ex-priest turned writer who sometimes struggled with his Church yet remained because his faith brought much solace and consolation. Carroll's remembrances are well-told and of high interest. Central to part of this memoir/history is the Second Vatican Council, which brought about many reforms and which drew in many questioning Catholics. Carroll discusses firsthand the liberal/conservative divide within the church, along with the distinct qualities of American Catholicism. His account is filled with rich and revealing anecdotes about the priesthood, and rigorously honest assessments of past and present church leaders.

PRACTICING CATHOLIC is a personal history of the American Catholic Church during James Carrolla (TM)s lifetime. It traces the transformation of a medieval institution suspicious of American ideas of freedom and democracy into a church that has begun to embrace basic American principles of pluralism and respect for conscience. The audiobook tells the story of heroes (Pope John xxiii, Thomas Merton, Cardinal Richard Cushing, William Sloane Coffin), and great events (Vatican ii, the Kennedya (TM)s, the end of the Cold War). Considering the new meaning of belief in a secular world, it stands against the fundamentalisms of a oeneo-atheistsa as well as of born again Christians. This audio shows how and why the world needs a renewed, rational, vital Catholic Church. All of this is centered in the life-long journey of its author, who embraced the priesthood in his youth, but who finds in the writing life a renewal of religious belief. For James Carroll faith is a practice a" like all practice, it aims at getting better.

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