What draws—and binds—thoughtful, educated people to a Church so often criticized by outsiders (and even members) as "authoritarian" or "out of step with the times?" This collection of personal accounts...
These are among the many questions that writer and broadcaster Peter Stanford is addressing here. There is a whole spectrum of response in this entertaining and enlightening collection. 'Fascinating... a surprisingly uplifting book.
... priests and nuns. Those tan tights that only nuns wear; you could buy them here by the dozen along with priests' trousers, nuns' nighties, knickers for monks and that particular brand of spongey shoe that I've only ever seen sisters wear ...
Ronda Chervin's heroic account of her victory of valorous faith over fearsome adversities will charge many readers to halt their faint retreat from the front and return full force to the fray.
In my life, I have had such a marvelous sense of belonging to our Lord through the many instances mentioned in this little book.