Why Be a Catholic?
Ebook
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.
The Catholic Church is deep in crisis and scandal. A highly intelligent, articulate Irish commentator provides hope, encouraging people to see beyond current problems.
Well-known Irish commentator, columnist and broadcaster points to new hope.
Introduction
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
[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.
[Mark Dooley is] well-qualified to get to the heart of the matters that trouble so many today: why bother with being a Catholic.
Why Be a Catholic? courageously confronts what must be done if Catholicism is to survive as a religion of redemption.
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.
- Title: Why Be a Catholic?
- Author: Mark Dooley
- Publisher: Burns & Oates
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781441187253, 9781441110428, 1441110429, 1441187251
- Resource ID: LLS:9781441187253
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-12T15:43:15Z
Mark Dooley has held lectureships at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and at University College Dublin where he was John Henry Newman Scholar of Theology. From 2003-2006, he wrote a controversial column on foreign affairs for the Sunday Independent. Since 2006, he has written for the Irish Daily Mail. Dooley is also a regular broadcaster on Irish radio and television, and has served as a political speech writer. He is author of The Politics of Exodus: Kierkegaard's Ethics of Responsibility (2001), The Philosophy of Derrida (2007), and Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach (2009). He is editor of Questioning Ethics (1999), Questioning God (2001), A Passion for the Impossible (2003), and The Roger Scruton Reader (2009).