Title: an outdated priest looks at his outdated church
Product review: When this book was written in the 1960's, Father Kavanaugh may have had some meaningful criticsms. Forty years later, it just sounds bitter and ineffectual. I bought this book for research for my own forthcoming "A Returned Catholic Looks at His Church", but it is utterly unusable. Instead of serious discussion of Jesus's (or St. Thomas's or St. Augustine's)written and oral statements about clerical celibacy, divorce, abortion, war, capital punishment, our responsibilities to the poor, sick or weak among us and a myriad of other important issues, Father Kavanaugh resorts to lame caricatures of Catholics who find no solace in the Church but find great warmth and understanding in Kavanaugh. A good subtitle for this book would have been "examples of why I, father Kavanaugh, am good and Godlike, while the Church stinks to hell". Sorry, I wish I could be more positive. I wanted very much for this book to say something valuable, but it failed.
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