Carroll, James

James Carroll, a former Catholic priest, chronicles the history of Jerusalem from antiquity to the early twenty-first century, describing the conflicts between Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and discussing the Israeli-Palestinian wars.

In 1961, three teenagers from an American school in West Germany travel to Berlin to join a May Day rally, where they stumble into the middle of an international incident, forcing their parents to rescue them.

Chronicles the Church's two-thousand-year-old battle against Judaism.

A memoir in which the author discusses his relationship with his father, a high-ranking general during the Vietnam War, and tells about his entry into the priesthood where he became part of the radical faction protesting the war, and his decision to leave the church in order to marry and have a family.