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Fine in Fine jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition. In brown cloth over spine with copper titles, tan boards, tight, solid and square binding. Internals also as new. A chronicle of a year in the life of St. Paul's Church in Kenmore, New York, and many issues over authority, celibacy, women in church roles, divorce, disillusioned ministry staffers, clashes of personalities. But beyond this, moral anarchy and the ambiguous power balance in today's Catholic Church. The author paints a picture of ordinary people with foibles both amusing and annoying, people who seek meaning in a troubled world and find it through their decision to believe and to belong. Through their stories, a picture emergaes of what it means to be Catholic at the end of the 20th century--and perhaps beyond. 307 pages. 6.2 x 9.5 inches. 1996, Doubleday, New York.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition (stated). A thoughtful study of the various conflicts of values, morals, and church admonitions in a single Roman Catholic parish, reflecting squabbles over authority, quests for inner peace, small victories of faith, intimacy vs. celibacy, skepticism towards the priesthood, moral anarchy and permissiveness, much more, and how the individual Catholic and the church itself struggles to maintain harmony and the maintenance of fundamental principles based on faith. Hardcover with dust jacket, 307pp. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free Brodart plastic protector. Rare. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
