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Clerical Error: A True Story, Robert Blair Kaiser, Continuum, 2002, 0826413846, 9780826413840, 297 pages. Twenty-nine years old, newly married, and fresh from the Society of Jesus, where he had spent ten years as a novice and scholastic, Bob Kaiser was picked for one of the most exciting jobs in journalism of his era: Time's reporter at the Second Vatican Council. In the words of Michael Novak: "No reporter knew more about the Council; had talked with more of the personalities, prominent or minor; had more sources of information to tap. Sunday evening dinner parties at his apartment became a rendezvous of stimulating and informed persons. In the English-speaking world, at least, perhaps no source was to have quite the catalytic effect as Time on opinion outside the Council and even to an extent within it." Much of inner story of the Council-its personalities, machinations, maneuverings between progressive forces and the old guard-was told in Bob Kaiser's bestseller of the early sixties Pope, Council, and World. This is a different story, one so raw and personal that it could only be told some forty years later in a very different church and by a much matured Bob Kaiser. The heart of the story is how Bob's wife was seduced by his friend, the Jesuit priest Malachy Martin, and how Martin ("a man who could make people laugh in seven languages)" persuaded Kaiser's other clerical friends (including notable bishops and prominent theologians) to send him to a sanitorium. The story is at once hilarious (Martin was one of the great clerical con men of all time) and sobering. The "clerical error"--the refusal to see what Martin was up to--was as much Kaiser's as that of his older clerical friends who defended their fellow priest simply because he was a member of the club. Their naivete and their blindness only mirrors the church's inability to deal realistically with any issue touched by sex: birth control, remarriage after divorce, priestly celibacy, clerical child abuse, or the ordination of women. Bob Kaiser did eventually grow up. He knows the official church has a long way to go.. DOWNLOAD http://bit.ly/HMbAK2 Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness, Volume 1 Prophetic Witness, Edward K. Kaplan, Samuel H. Dresner, 1998, Biography & Autobiography, 402 pages. This book, the first of two volumes, is the story of Abraham Joshua Heschel, "a renowned American theologian and interpreter of tradition."--Jacket.. Forty Years Since My Last Confession , Jean Colgan Gould, Apr 1, 2004, Biography & Autobiography, 189 pages. The third in the Crosssroad series of Catholic memoirs is a richly poetic, intuitive, interior story of how one woman, a bright and headstrong seeker of spiritual truth, began .... 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Broken Rainbows Growing Faith in a Changing World, G. Michael McCrossin, Jan 1, 1997, Religion, 172 pages. Jesuit scholar G. Michael McCrossin has written a book for those who have abandoned Christian faith, sharing new insights about God, sin, and Jesus Christ that he believes more .... Sinner The Catholic Guy's Funny, Feeble Attempts to Be a Faithful Catholic, Lino Rulli, 2011, Biography & Autobiography, 181 pages. In this fast and funny collection of stories from his own life, Lino Rulli (aka The Catholic Guy) shares the joys and the struggles of trying to follow God in everyday .... Encyclical That Never Was , Robert Blair Kaiser, Oct 29, 1987, Religion, 730 pages. On the events that led up to the promulgation of the Encyclical Humanae Vitae.. Rich church, poor church , Malachi Martin, Aug 1, 1984, Religion, 253 pages. Analyzes the financial holdings of the Roman Catholic Church, tracing its accumulation through the centuries, and examines recent proposals for divestiture. A Priest Forever The Life of Father Eugene Hamilton, Benedict J. Groeschel, 1998, Biography & Autobiography, 206 pages. Eugene Hamilton was ordained three hours before he died. He never "served" as a priest -- but a priest he was, and is. Heartbreaking but inspiring at the same time.. The Calling A Year in the Life of an Order of Nuns, Catherine Whitney, Mar 1, 2000, , 272 pages. A rich, inside view of the world within the cloister follows the lives of a group of Dominican nuns as they struggle with the practical aspects of their individual lives, the .... Al Qaeda's Great Escape The Military and the Media on Terror's Trail, Philip Smucker, Apr 1, 2005, History, 229 pages. How bin Laden and his gang slipped through the noose during fierce Afghan battles. An Exorcist Tells His Story , Gabriele Amorth, Jan 1, 1999, Religion, 205 pages. In this powerful book, the renowned exorcist of Rome tells of his many experiences in his ministry as an exorcist doing battle with Satan to relieve the great suffering of .... Getting Out of the Habit , Priscilla PichГ©, May 1, 2002, Biography & Autobiography, 244 pages. A holy alcoholic father, a frail and loving mother, and a strict Catholic childhood lead a young woman to leave her boyfriend for a life abroad. There she meets a pope, Father .... The credibility of the church today a reply to Charles Davis, Gregory Baum, 1968, Religion, 222 pages. John Charles McQuaid Ruler of Catholic Ireland, John Cooney, 1999, Biography & Autobiography, 526 pages. The first major biography of one of Ireland's most powerful figures who became the ecclesiastical Prime Minister of a clerical state.. Twenty-nine years old, newly married, and fresh from the Society of Jesus, where he had spent ten years as a novice and scholastic, Bob Kaiser was picked for one of the most exciting jobs in journalism of his era: Time's reporter at the Second Vatican Council. In the words of Michael Novak: "No reporter knew more about the Council; had talked with more of the personalities, prominent or minor; had more sources of information to tap. Sunday evening dinner parties at his apartment became a rendezvous of stimulating and informed persons. In the English-speaking world, at least, perhaps no source was to have quite the catalytic effect as Time on opinion outside the Council and even to an extent within it." Much of inner story of the Council-its personalities, machinations, maneuverings between progressive forces and the old guard-was told in Bob Kaiser's bestseller of the early sixties Pope, Council, and World. This is a different story, one so raw and personal that it could only be told some forty years later in a very different church and by a much matured Bob Kaiser. The heart of the story is how Bob's wife was seduced by his friend, the Jesuit priest Malachy Martin, and how Martin ("a man who could make people laugh in seven languages)" persuaded Kaiser's other clerical friends (including notable bishops and prominent theologians) to send him to a sanitorium. The story is at once hilarious (Martin was one of the great clerical con men of all time) and sobering. The "clerical error"--the refusal to see what Martin was up to--was as much Kaiser's as that of his older clerical friends who defended their fellow priest simply because he was a member of the club. Their naivete and their blindness only mirrors the church's inability to deal realistically with any issue touched by sex: birth control, remarriage after divorce, priestly celibacy, clerical child abuse, or the ordination of women. Bob Kaiser did eventually grow up. He knows the official church has a long way to go. Against the backdrop of the Catholic Church's historic Second Vatican Council, Kaiser, a former reporter for Time magazine, recounts the remarkable story of how his first marriage was destroyed by his wife's affair with the Jesuit priest Malachy Martin. Kaiser's life in the 1960s was inextricably caught up with the Council, and he relates as much about the assembly's inner workings as he does his personal crisis. To learn what was going on in the closed Council sessions, Kaiser cultivated its key players, primarily those promoting a liberal agenda, and invited them into his home, which became known as "a center of the Council's progressive wing." One of his frequent guests was Martin, who offered Kaiser help with research for his book on the Council and also managed to charm his wife, Mary. By the time Kaiser began to suspect a liaison between Martin and his wife, it was too far gone to stop. When he tried to expose it, he discovered that, at least by this account, Martin had conspired to have him admitted to a mental hospital. Kaiser, who spent 10 years with the Jesuits but left before he was ordained, paints himself as a victim of Martin, but also acknowledges his own failure to "grow up," an attitude he says was fostered by the church and the Jesuits.

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