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Teaching the cat to sit

a memoir
The memoir of a gay Catholic woman struggling to find balance between being a daughter and a mother raising her son with a loving partner in the face of discrimination from her religion, her friends, her mother, and pretty much everyone she knew. This book examines the modern roles of motherhood and religion.

Why priests?

a failed tradition
2013
In his most provocative book yet, Pulitzer Prize?-winner Garry Wills asks the radical question: Why do we need priests? Author Wills spent five years as a young man at a Jesuit seminary and nearly became a priest himself. But after a lifetime of study and reflection, he now poses some challenging questions: Why do we need priests at all? Why did the priesthood arise in a religion that began without it and opposed it? Would Christianity be stronger without the priesthood, as it was at its outset? Meticulously researched, persuasively argued, and certain to spark debate, Why Priests? asserts that the anonymous Letter to Hebrews, a late addition to the New Testament canon, helped inject the priesthood into a Christianity where it did not exist, along with such concomitants as belief in an apostolic succession, the real presence in the Eucharist, the sacrificial interpretation of the Mass, and the ransom theory of redemption. But Wills does not expect the priesthood to fade entirely away. He just reminds us that Christianity did without it in the time of Peter and Paul with notable success.

Called out of darkness

a spiritual confession
2008
Anne Rice reflects on her life, focusing on her religious transitions which went from Catholicism to atheism and back to Catholicism, but also discussing her childhood, years in Berkeley, writing career, family, and other related topics.

The priest and the policeman

the courageous life and cruel murder of father Jerzy Popieluszko
1987

What is my song?

2005
Based on an African fable, Deo learns who he is when his parents and villagers reassure him that he know his own song.

The reasons of the heart

a journey into solitude and back again into the human circle
1978

Speaking out, fighting back

personal experiences of women who survived childhood sexual abuse in the home
1985

The celibacy myth

loving for life
1987

Constantine's sword

the church and the Jews : a history
2002

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