Weighing in On Being Catholic

Summary


Here I am, then, an Episcopalian, eavesdropping as it were on the sometimes rowdy, occasionally rude, nearly always lively conversation that Kerry Kennedy has instigated among American Catholics over the topic of who they imagine themselves to be, and why.

One thing we Anglicans notice about Catholics is how much more time they spend talking about such matters than do we ourselves - a clear enough indication of how essential is the Church to their personal identity. I gather a lot of that has to do with the American church's role in the acclimation of late-coming immigrants, but the present point lies elsewhere.

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Weighing in On Being Catholic

Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy's seventh child, a human rights activist who professes fierce attachment to her, and her family's, church, has gathered from interviews an engaging and robust collection of viewpoints on that church and its wrestling...

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