Practicing Catholic Book

Introduction: Practicing Catholic 1

1 Born Catholic 11

1 Past, Present, Future 11

2 De Profundis 16

3 Jimmy Marching 23

4 Growing Up with Jesus 25

5 In God Who Is Not There 28

2 The God of My Youth 34

1 The Perfect Society 34

2 Martyr of Conscience 38

3 No Salvation Outside the Church 43

4 Infallibility 46

5 Americanism 52

6 Isaac Hecker and the Paulists 58

3 Coming of Age 65

1 Richard Cushing 65

2 Leonard Feeney, S.J. 69

3 Experience over Doctrine 77

4 John Courtney Murray, S.J. 84

5 Catholic Camelot 88

4 The Council 96

1 Pope John XXIII 96

2 Entering the Novitiate 100

3 Reform and Reunion 107

4 The Cuban Missile Crisis 113

5 Nostra Aetate: Jesus, a Jew 116

6 Religious Liberty 120

7 Thomas Merton and Peace 122

8 The Death of John F. Kennedy 125

5 A New Language 127

1 End of Latin 127

2 The Bible Told Them So 131

3 Copernicus, Galileo, and Darwin 133

4 Learning to Read 139

5 The Mary Code 144

6 The Gospel of Women 154

7 Faith of the Fathers 158

6 Sex and Power 162

1 Unnatural Law 162

2 Personally Opposed 167

3 Celibacy as Control 170

4 Women's Liberation 172

5 1968: Howl 175

6 Catholic Radical 181

7 Martin and Bobby 185

8 Humanae Vitae 188

7 Thou Art a Priest 191

1 A Monk in Love 191

2 William Sloane Coffin, Jr. 196

3 Public Sinner 202

4 The End of the Beginning 203

5 Catholic Chaplain 205

6 Conscientious Objectors 211

7 Cardinal Cushing's Last Hurrah 217

8 The Scandal 220

1 How I Loved It 220

2 This Father Carroll 223

3 Paul Shanley and His Protectors 227

4 The Basilica of Denial 233

5 The Church on Fire 236

6 Three Reasons 238

7 Hans Küng vs. John Paul II 240

8 Ratzinger and Galileo 246

9 Religion and Terror 250

1 Crusade and Jihad 250

2 Catholic Fundamentalism 253

3 Member of the Laity 257

4 A German Pope 259

5 The Negotiation of Values 266

6 The West Against the Rest 268

7 Monotheism, Violence of 276

8 Peace Among the Religions 280

9 "Catastrophe" Means "Turning Point" 283

10 A Writer's Faith 287

1 Bad Catholic 287

2 Allen Tate 290

3 Death Is the Opening 300

4 Language Is God 302

5 The Meaning of Meaning 308

6 A Second Naïveté 312

7 The Catholic Imagination 316

8 Far Surpassing Human Hopes 320

A Twentieth-Century American Catholic Chronology 323

Acknowledgments 328

Notes 330

Index 361