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By John Cornwell (© 2001)
Read by John Lee (Brit.)
2001 Books on Tape, Inc.
Unabridged
Non-Fiction > Religion - Spirituality

A former seminarian decries the conservative trend in the modern Catholic church, and offers suggestions for its liberalization.

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John Cornwell is a lapsed seminarian who rejoined the Catholic church in later life. These are his reflections on the state of the church in the final years of Pope John Paul II's reign. A liberal Catholic, Cornwell believes that the church has descended too far into conservatism. He claims that it has stigmatized millions of Catholics with its sexual teachings, has centralized authority ever more firmly in Rome, has squelched dissent among its members, and has ruled in a retrograde manner on a variety of other burning issues. Cornwell is by no means anti-Catholic, but he believes that the faith would be best served by the eventual installation of a new pope and the rollback of what he believes to be repressive teachings.

"Redefines the entire history of the 20th century." (Washington Post)

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