I Like Being a Catholic - Hardcover

Leach, Michael; Borchard, Therese J.

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ISBN 10: 0385499515 ISBN 13: 9780385499514

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 2000

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A collection of essays, reminiscences, and writings celebrate Catholicism in works by Andrew Greeley, Martin Scorsese, Vince Lombardi, and Christopher Buckley that reflect on religious traditions, sacraments, rituals, and education.

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I Like Being Catholic is sure to rank among the top-10 first Communion gifts in coming years. It's a collection of personal essays, prayers, quotations and other short writings by everyone from Cokie Roberts to Martin Scorsese to William F. Buckley about the pleasures of practising Catholicism. As editors Michael Leach and Therese J. Borchard write in their introduction to the volume, the anthology's contributors "may not always agree with the Church's rules but they wouldn't think of being anything else. Catholicism is in their bones". I Like Being Catholic is not concerned with theology; it's out to show the ways that Catholicism enables faithful folk to see the true and beautiful. This approach occasionally lapses into kitsch ("Fifty Things Catholics Like Best About Being Catholic", compiled by Fr. William A. Burke from parishioners in Homewood, Illinois: e.g., "22. Ashes smudged on your forehead".). It also creates some occasions for readers to enjoy the divine presence in unexpected places (as suggested by Doris Kearns Goodwin's "The Brooklyn Dodgers and The Catholic Church"). --Simon Priestly

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"In an age of negativism, pessimism and worse, despair, I Like Being Catholic is a breath of fresh air.I would hope that Catholic parents, especially young ones, would find in this book a breath of fresh air, a sense of optimism, and something precious to transmit to their children."
--Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
"Practicing Catholics, ex-Catholics, conservative and liberal Catholics, alienated Catholics, recovering Catholics, pious and impious Catholics--unite!Here is the reason that Catholicism is so deep in your bones.Welcome to your rich spiritual heritage."
--Paul Wilkes, author of Beyond the Walls and The Seven Secrets of Successful Catholics
"I Like Being Catholic touches the heartstrings, calls forth laughter and tears, and offers the possibility to deepen and more profoundly appreciate an incredible gift: faith.It does so because it is personal, authentic, and inspirational and it will resonate in your soul."
--Sue Mosteller, Director of Henri Nouwen Literary Center
"There's no better way for anyone to appreciate the "unity in diversity" that is the Catholic Church than by reading I Like Being Catholic. Where else but in the Catholic Church is there enough love to embrace such different folks as Vince Lombardi, William F. Buckley, Jr., Mary Higgins Clark, Andrew Greeley, Joan Chittister, OSB, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, Joan Wester Anderson, Martin Scorsese and scores of not-so-famous, very diverse people-all of whom simply enjoy being Catholic?"
--Bert Ghezzi, author of Voices of the Saints

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