Why Be a Catholic?

by Mark Dooley

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, jourbanalist 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441110428
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/25/2011
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Mark Dooley has held lectureships in philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and at University College Dublin where he was also John Henry Newman Scholar in Theology. From 2003-2006, he wrote on foreign affairs for the Sunday Independent. From 2006-2018, he wrote a weekly column on 'Moral Matters' for the Irish Daily Mail. He is currently a Contributing Editor to The European Conservative magazine. He is author of The Politics of Exodus: Kierkegaard's Ethics of Responsibility (2001), The Philosophy of Derrida (2007), Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach (2009), Why Be a Catholic? (2011), Moral Matters: A Philosophy of Homecoming (2015), and Conversations With Roger Scruton (2016). He is editor of Questioning Ethics (1999), Questioning God (2001), A Passion for the Impossible (2003), The Roger Scruton Reader (2009), and Against The Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton's Columns, Commentaries and Criticism (2022). Dooley is Sir Roger Scruton's Literary Executor.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The Flame of Faith
2. What Do We Believe?
3. Getting Back to Basics
4. From Boredom to Beauty
5. What It Means to be a Parishioner
6. What It Means to be a Priest
7. Solace in the Sacraments
8. Froim Prayer to Paradise
9. The Road to Rome
10. Do This in Memory of Me
Conclusion