Why I Am Still a Catholic Essays in Faith and Perseverance

by Stanford, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780826491459
• ISBN10: 0826491456
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-23
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

What does it mean to be a Catholic in today's world? If you are not eating fish on Fridays and having strings of children, then what distinguishes the modern Catholic from anyone else? At a time when the Vatican provokes hostility by its opposition to contraception, abortion and the use of condoms in fighting AIDS, how many Catholics share its views? And if they don't, how can they in good conscience stay in the Church? These are among the many questions that writer and broadcaster Peter Stanford has addressed to some of Britain's best-known Catholics. In this entertaining and enlightening collection of short essays, each has come up with a very different reply.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
1 A Global Caravan Site	1	(10)
Frank Cottrell Boyce
2 Roots and Reins	11	(10)
Cristina Odone
3 A Little Bit of Grit	21	(8)
Cherie Booth QC
4 Put to the Test	29	(6)
Shaun Edwards OBE
5 The Ant on the Face of the Computer	35	(12)
Bruce Kent
6 On the Sidelines of a Culture of Death	47	(16)
Professor Neil Scolding
7 Angels and Dirt	63	(10)
Peter Stanford
8 Thy Will Be Done	73	(8)
Patricia Scotland QC
9 More than a Plastic Paddy	81	(8)
Dermot O'Leary
10 Locked Away Like a Nun	89	(12)
Anne Maguire
11 Only When I Laugh	101	(8)
Mel Giedroyc
12 Final Perseverance	109	(8)
IM Birtwistle
13 This Peculiar Marriage	117	(16)
Charlie Brown
14 A Work in Progress	133
Edward Stourton