2007 Catholic Press Association Award Winner! Mandatory celibacy for Latin rite Catholic priests has been the norm for almost 900 years. Now the clergy sexual abuse scandal and the rapidly declining n
Now in paperback with a new epilogue--the widely discussed call for a new and open Catholic church that arrived just before the papacy of Francis.Fr. Cozzens inspires a church "that wants to be simply
Few today would contest that the priesthood is in a state of crisis. The nature and implications of that crisis, however, remain the subject of considerable discussion and debate. InThe Changing Face
Drawing on his own experience in responding to abuse, Bishop Geoffrey Robinson methodically offers a critique of the church's use and misuse of power, from the pope proclaiming infallibly down to the
