March 11, 2005

Books

The Catholic Thing

Between Heaven and EarthThe Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study ThemRobert A. OrsiPrinceton University Press, $26.95, 256 pp.

John T. McGreevy

It’s Saturday morning in Indiana and I am at church. The occasion is my daughter’s first reconciliation. Earlier that week, at the prodding of parish staff, the parents of the children preparing for the sacrament had gathered to reflect on their own experience of confession. In my small group, a handful of thirty- and forty-something parents described an event they remember (...)


 

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