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Title: Surprising Insights About the Crisis in American Catholicism
Review: Raymond Brown uses his wide and deep knowledge of the New Testament to give us valuable pastoral insights for all Christian communities and churches. But he has some especially valuable insights for his fellow Catholics when he notes that the aftermath of Vatican II has brought some very tragic losses in Catholic belief and practice. He sees the effort to "recoup" these losses by emphasizing traditional and distinctive Catholic practices as "eminent good sense" (pp. 117-18). That effort has been central to the papacy of John Paul II, and it certainly makes eminent good sense. These and other insights into church life make reading this book a thought-provoking experience.
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