August 15, 2003

Books

Navigating the Future

A People AdriftThe Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in Americaby Peter SteinfelsSimon and Schuster, $26, 376 pp.

Patrick Allitt

A People Adrift argues that American Catholics are all at sea. If their great ship has lost its masts and compass, good navigators and shipwrights like Peter Steinfels must get busy to prevent a shipwreck. He is more successful than most analysts of post-Vatican II decline because he manages to go beyond the familiar criticisms made over and over again by the Catholic left and (...)


 

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Patrick Allitt is associate professor of history at Emory University and author of Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome (Cornell University Press).

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