false 62337 2 0 Chicago, Illinois 1943/01/22 183903 0618219080 9780618219087 45 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521219m/183903.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521219s/183903.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183903.Constantine_s_Sword_The_Church_and_the_Jews_A_History 4.15 212 Constantine's Sword is a sprawling work of history, theology, and personal confession by James Carroll (the author of An American Requiem, among many others). Carroll begins his landmark project by describing contemporary Catholic remembrances of the Holocaust and the Church's intolerable legacy of hostility towards Jews. He then surveys Catholic anti-Judaism beginning with the New Testament and proceeding through the early Church, the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Enlightenment, and World War II, before concluding with "A Call for Vatican III," a Church council that would make meaningful repentance for an entrenched tradition of hatred. Carroll's prescriptions for repentance, continued in a powerful epilogue, are bracingly concrete: "there is no apology for Holy Week preaching that prompted pogroms until Holy Week liturgies, sermons, and readings have been purged of the anti-Jewish slanders that sent the mobs rushing out of church.... Forgiveness for the sin of anti-Semitism presumes a promise to dismantle all that makes it possible." Carroll's personal reflections as an American Catholic infuse his historical narrative, and although his reflections are sometimes unnecessarily detailed, they are admirable for the principle they express: "I find myself unable to accuse my Church of any sin that I cannot equally accuse myself of," he writes. Carroll's judgments on the Church are rightly harsh, even agonizing. And yet his vision for a future rapprochement between Christians and Jews is hopeful, in part because he personally has come to understand the deep connections between Israel and the Church: "Jesus offers me, a non-Jew, access to the biblical hope that was his birthright as a son of Israel." --Michael Joseph Gross]]> 62337 3.99 572 121 2001 107700 039585993X 9780395859933 19 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107700.An_American_Requiem_God_My_Father_and_the_War_That_Came_Between_Us 3.83 127 62337 3.99 572 121 1996 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517s/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 4.22 41 62337 3.99 572 121 2006 358215 039592619X 9780395926192 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358215.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517s/358215.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358215.Prince_of_Peace 4.12 25 62337 3.99 572 121 1984 480914 0395825229 9780395825228 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175195418m/480914.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175195418s/480914.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/480914.The_City_Below 3.74 27 62337 3.99 572 121 1994 6011563 0618670181 9780618670185 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255876049m/6011563.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255876049s/6011563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6011563.Practicing_Catholic 4.00 23
Practicing Catholicis a personal history of the American Catholic Church during James Carroll's lifetime. It traces the transformation of a medieval institution suspicious of American ideas of freedom and democracy into a church that has begun to embrace basic American principles of pluralism and respect for conscience. The book tells the story of heroes (Pope John xxiii, Thomas Merton, Cardinal Richard Cushing, William Sloane Coffin), and great events (Vatican ii, the Kennedys, the end of the Cold War). Considering the new meaning of belief in a secular world, it stands against the fundamentalisms of "neo-athetists" as well as of born again Christians. The book shows how and why the world needs a renewed, rational, vital Catholic Church. All of this is centered in the life-long journey of its author, who embraced the priesthood in his youth, but who finds in the writing life a renewal of religious belief. For James Carroll faith is a practice-- like all practice, it aims at getting better.]]> 62337 3.99 572 121 2009 1576969 0618152849 9780618152841 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185407282m/1576969.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185407282s/1576969.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1576969.Secret_Father_A_Novel 3.43 23 62337 3.99 572 121 2003 358212 0440157900 9780440157908 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358212.Mortal_Friends 4.31 13 62337 3.99 572 121 1978 1111004 0451123255 9780451123251 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1111004.Family_Trade 3.73 11 62337 3.99 572 121 1982 358211 0805078436 9780805078435 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072516m/358211.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072516s/358211.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358211.Crusade_Chronicles_of_an_Unjust_War 4.25 8 62337 3.99 572 121 2004