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Zusatztext “BEING CATHOLIC NOW has something to say to almost every Catholic! or even one-time Catholic! who cracks open its pages…What emerges is an often moving glimpse into people’s private lives and their efforts to make sense of both their faith and themselves…Kennedy captures the enormous diversity of Catholic experience and the myriad ways men and women understand their faith and are affected by it. One finishes the book feeling grateful for her subjects’ honesty and moved in a hundred different ways by what they reveal of their aspirations and struggles.” — National Catholic Reporter “Offers an unusually intimate view of how much being raised Catholic shapes the identity of many prominent Americans! but also how much tension many feel with the institutional church.” — The Boston Globe “Full of vivid tales…faith and the absence of faith are both journeys! and Kennedy’s provocative and thoughtful book hears from them all.” — Irish Voice Informationen zum Autor Kerry is a multi genre author currently living in Spain and hailing from the UK. Five years ago she and her partner made a life decision to move to warmer climates and to be close to the mountains they climb. An avid writer and reader, you will usually find her with a book in her hand. Her pleasurable activities include rock climbing, hiking in the Prades mountains, biking along the trails of Catalonia with stunning mountain backdrops and of course drinking too much coffee.She lives with her partner, four cats and her chihuahua. Klappentext Some of America's most extraordinary celebrities, artists, and thinkers reveal what they believe Catholicism is-and what it should be In this illuminating collection that redefines an ancient institution in the most contemporary of terms, human-rights activist Kerry Kennedy asks thirty-seven American Catholics to speak candidly about their own faith-whether lost, recovered, or deepened-and about their feelings regarding the way the Church hierarchy is moving forward. "Has something to say to almost every Catholic, or even one-time Catholic, who cracks open its pages. . . . One finishes the book feeling grateful for [Kennedy's] subjects' honesty and moved in a hundred different ways by what they reveal of their aspirations and struggles.”-National Catholic Reporter "Revealing . . . offers an unusually intimate view of how much being raised Catholic shapes the identity of many prominent Americans, but also how much tension many feel with the institutional church.”-Boston GlobeAnna Quindlen Anna Quindlen (b. July 8, 1952) is a bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist. She joined the staV of Newsweek in 1999, where she writes the Last Word column every other week. When I was a kid, there were endless arguments that seemed to have no point. Whether it was proper, for example, if my parents went to a wedding in a Methodist church. This always seemed like the “How many angels can dance on a pin?” argument, since we were never invited to weddings that weren’t in Catholic churches. In my entire neighborhood where I grew up there was no one who wasn’t Catholic. No one had married into a family who wasn’t Catholic. There was a rhythm to the liturgical year, which gave this incredible shape to your life, in a way that had almost nothing to do with faith. It’s like the distinction between the Baltimore Catechism and theology. The Baltimore Catechism gave this knee-jerk shape to every element of Catholicism that was absolutely anti-intellectual and unquestioning, as opposed to real theology. And so much of our lives as young Catholics was about that sort of ruling aYrmative: What would happen if you unwittingly took a bite of a bologna sandwich on a Friday? Much of it was the functional equivalent of keeping kosher. Why does one do this? You don’t ask this question, you just do it, unthinkingly, ...
