Overview

The Catholic Church has never been so deeply immersed in crisis - crisis of authority, priestly scandal, celibacy, hierarchy - stretching right up to the Vatican itself. Most people in authority are keeping quiet or squabbling among themselves. Mark Dooley is a Professor of Philosophy who is also a serious commentator, journalist and broadcaster. He has written a book of hope for those who have none. It is, he argues, only when the sacramental life of the local parishes is revitalised that renewal in the Church can be achieved.

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Why Be a Catholic courageously confronts what must be done if Catholicism is to survive as a religion of redemption.--Sanford Lakoff

Title mentioned in Irish Daily Mail [a] beautifully written book... In the times in which we live, to write as Dooley has done takes courage. As you read this book you may be edified, you may be enraged; one thing you won't be is bored.--Irish Mail on Sunday Author interview on Spirit Radio Title mentioned in author article in Irish Daily Mail Author interview on Highland Radio Author interview in The Catholic Herald Author interview on The Last Word (Today FM) [Mark Dooley is] well-qualified to get to the heart of the matters that trouble so many today: why bother with being a Catholic.--Sanford Lakoff Why Be a Catholic courageously confronts what must be done if Catholicism is to survive as a religion of redemption.--Sanford Lakoff

[a] beautifully written book... In the times in which we live, to write as Dooley has done takes courage. As you read this book you may be edified, you may be enraged; one thing you won't be is bored.--Irish Mail on Sunday

Why Be a Catholic courageously confronts what must be done if Catholicism is to survive as a religion of redemption.--,

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Mark Dooley has held lectureships at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and at University College Dublin where he was John Henry Newman Scholar of Theology. From 2003-2006, he wrote a controversial column on foreign affairs for the Sunday Independent. Since 2006, he has written for the Irish Daily Mail. Dooley is also a regular broadcaster on Irish radio and television, and has served as a political speech writer. He is author of The Politics of Exodus: Kierkegaard's Ethics of Responsibility (2001), The Philosophy of Derrida (2007), and Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach (2009). He is editor of Questioning Ethics (1999), Questioning God (2001), A Passion for the Impossible (2003), and The Roger Scruton Reader (2009).

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