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 (...)
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.
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