September 12, 2008

Books

A Bishop Speaks

Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic ChurchReclaiming the Spirit of JesusBishop Geoffrey Robinson

Paul Lakeland

Bishop Geoffrey Robinson’s new book represents a signal accomplishment in the genre of writings by disgruntled ex-something-or-others. Even as Robinson retired in order to write it, the Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia, where he had worked as auxiliary for some twenty years, was listing his retirement “for health reasons.” Well, to paraphrase the Psalmist, out of the mout (...)


 

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