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Combining insight, compassion and humor, this famous priest-psychologist and author offers a not-to-be-missed glimpse into contemporary society. In a series of fascinating vignettes, written in a refreshing new style of journalism, Kennedy takes the reader with him on a remarkable journey in search of the shades of faith and society as they are today.

The astute theologican-sociologist-sister-brother team who researched and wrote this book examine the patterns which characterize the exodus of many people from the Catholic Church and their return, looking not for justifications or recriminations, but for ways in which the Church can bestg welcome back and serve the religious needs of its prodigal sons and daughters.

Renewal - without loss of identity - is the subject of this careful look at the problems facing Catholics in a time of radical change.

The Church should proceed with its own internal reforms, which had such a hopeful beginning in the Second Vatican Council ( 1962 - 1965).

Takes a look at traditional assumptions and theological interpretations concerning papal infallibility and the teaching authority of the church.

This book was the subject of a Vatican inquiry. The reason, ironically enough, has little to do with its alleged use of Marxist thought, but rather with its critical understanding of the church in the light of the gospel. This is a provocative, devasting critique of the ways in which power, sacred power, is controlled and exercised in the Roman Catholic Church.

This is not an ordinary biography. Kennedy paints an unusual psychological portrait of a dominant figure in the American Catholic culture. He explores the great issues tearing at the Church: birth control, homosexuality, abortion, papal authority, celibacy, women's rights.

With more than 3,000 entries, this Revised Edition covers virtually every aspect of the Catholic Church. It clearly defines and explains criticial principles of the Catholic Faith.

Father Brady has chosen to put together a collection of passages arranged by topic in which Newman - orator, writer and theologian - illustrates his faith-filled insights through the use of a vast array of concrete images.

No Catholic can be unaware of the crisis in Catholic liturgy. This one-of-a-kind book cuts through the confusion.