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The Church That Forgot Christ (Paperback)
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The Church That Forgot Christ (Paperback)
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List price R467
Loot Price R418
Discovery Miles 4 180
You Save R49 (10%)
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jimmy Breslin has established
himself as one of America's most distinctively Catholic voices. We
have also come to know Breslin as the cocky guy from Queens, New
York, who speaks insolently to powerful people and institutions,
his words always tinged with a healthy amount of unsentimental
outer-borough humor. Now, with a mix of sadness and anger, Breslin
turns his sights on the Roman Catholic Church.
After a lifetime of attending mass every Sunday, Breslin has
severed his ties to the church he once loved, and, in this
important book, filled with a fury generated by a sense of
betrayal, he explains why.
When the church sex scandals emerged relentlessly in recent years,
and when it became apparent that these scandals had been covered up
by the church hierarchy, Breslin found it impossible to reconcile
his faith with this new reality. Ever the reporter, he visited many
victims of molestation by priests and found lives in emotional
chaos. He questioned the bishops and found an ossified clergy that
has a sense of privilege and entitlement. Thus disillusioned with
his church, though not with his faith, he writes about the loss of
moral authority yet uses his trademark mordant humor to good
effect.
Breslin's righteous anger is put to use. Imagining a renewed
church, along with practical solutions such as married priests and
female priests, "The Church That Forgot Christ" also reminds us
that Christ wore sandals, not gold vestments and rings, and that
ultimately what the Catholic Church needs most is a healthy dose of
Christianity. In that sense, Breslin has written a dark book that
is full of hope and possibility. It is a book that only Jimmy
Breslin could have written.
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