The Church That Forgot Christ
Quote:After a lifetime of attending mass every Sunday, Breslin has severed his ties to the church he once loved, and, in this important book, filled with a fury generated by a sense of betrayal, he...
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Quote:The book is not so much a revelation - most of the cases Breslin cites have been reported in American newspapers - but an opportunity to see through Breslin's brutally honest eyes the horrific...
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Hope you dont mind me posting this over at Catholic Reformation! Interesting book!
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Quote:''Do I keep on in a church that I mistrust or remain outside and follow a religion I love?" This piercing refrain haunts Jimmy Breslin's angry meditation on the scandal of priestly sexual abuse...
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Quote:Later in the same testimony, Egan went even further. He proposed the novel idea that bishops and other figures in the church hierarchy could not be held responsible for crimes committed by...
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Quote: Breslin's book was much as I had expected; a chronicle of real-life stories in which priests violated their young charges. But what brought me up short was his contrasting portrait of a...
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From the Catholic League. . .Quote:Breslin has produced an incoherent rant that tells us nothing new about the abuse crisis, much that is demonstrably false and more than anyone would want to know...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jimmy Breslin has established himself as one of America's most distinctively Catholic voices. We have also come to know Breslin as the cocky guy from Queens, New...
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