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Letters to a Young Catholic

by: Weigel, George

Letters to a Young Catholic

by: Weigel, George

ISBN 13:
9780465092703
ISBN 10:
0465092705
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 10/31/2005
Publisher: Basic Books
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Summary

The internationally bestselling biographer of Pope John Paul II shows what itmeans to live, believe, and see things as a Catholic in the modern world.

Author Biography

George Weigel, a Roman Catholic theologian and one of America's leading commentators on religion and public life, is the author of the acclaimed The Courage to Be Catholic, the international bestseller,Witness to Hope: The Biography of John Paul II, and numerous other books that include The Truth of Catholicism and The Final Revolution. Now a Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., where he holds the John M. Olin Chair in Religion and American Democracy, Weigel writes a weekly column, "The Catholic Difference," that is syndicated to more than forty newspapers around the United States. He is an NBC consultant on the Vatican and appears regularly on network and cable television programs as well as national and local radio. Weigel lives with his wife and their three children in North Bethesda, Maryland.

A Preliminary Postcard

Letter One: Baltimore and Milledgeville---Acquiring the ``Habit of Being''

(18)

Letter Two: Rome---The Scavi of St. Peter's and the Grittiness of Catholicism

(14)

Letter Three: St. Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai/The Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem---The Face of Christ

(18)

Letter Four: The Dormition Abbey, Jerusalem---Mary and Discipleship

(12)

Letter Five: The Oratory, Birmingham, England---Newman and ``Liberal'' Religion

(20)

Letter Six: The Olde Cheshire Cheese, London---Chesterton's Pub and a Sacramental World

(18)

Letter Seven: Castle Howard, Yorkshire, England---Brideshead Revisited and the Ladder of Love

101

(20)

Letter Eight: The Sistine Chapel, Rome---Body Language, God Talk, and the Visible Invisible

121

(18)

Letter Nine: St. Mary's Church, Greenville, South Carolina---Why and How We Pray

139

(18)

Letter Ten: St. Stanislaw Kostka Churchyard, Warsaw/The Metropolitan Curia, Krakow---How Vocations Change History

157

(18)

Letter Eleven: The North American College Mausoleum, Campo Verano, Rome---The Hardest Questions

175

(16)

Letter Twelve: Chartres Cathedral, France---What Beauty Teaches Us

191

(16)

Letter Thirteen: The Old Cathedral, Baltimore---Freedom for Excellence

207

(18)

Letter Fourteen: The Basilica of the Holy Trinity, Krakow---On Not Being Alone

225

(16)

Sources

241

(8)

Acknowledgments

249

(2)

About the Author

251

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