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Goodbye, Good Men - by Michael Rose

Dec 25, 2011 19:40

If you build it, they will come
Field of Dreams

In 1938, James Cagney made a movie called Angels with Dirty Faces. This was a real old-fashioned two-fisted gangster epic, full of big hats and ‘let ‘em have it’ dialogue. Cagney’s co-star was Pat O’Brien, ‘Hollywood’s Irishman in residence’, playing Father Jerry Connolly, Cagney’s boyhood friend, now ( Read more... )

liberalism, catholicism, christianity

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review ext_996387 January 20 2012, 12:56:38 UTC

An excellent review. Personally I've been too afraid to read this book! Have heard all sorts of horrors from Irish seminarians! Let's hope the Apostolic Visitation will lead to drastic reforms..though I ain't holding my breath.

Re: review corrigan1 January 22 2012, 18:24:17 UTC

Oh, no need to be afraid to read the book - it's quite good, although I would have preferred if more of the contributors had allowed themselves to be identified. As for the Apostolic Visitation, it may already have begun to bear fruit. The Irish Times is bemoaning the fact that seminarians in Maynooth are no longer encouraged to mix in with the regular pupils as though the priesthood were just another job. The poisonous effect of regarding the priesthood in that light is one of the themes of Rose's book; those dioceses which rowed back from it benefitted. And if the IT is hacked off, then I suspect we're going in the right direction!