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Sex, Priestly Ministry, And The Church.(Book review)
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Catholic Education
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September 1, 2005
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2005 University of Notre Dame. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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SEX, PRIESTLY MINISTRY, AND THE CHURCH LEN SPERRY LITURGICAL PRESS, 2003 $16.95, 200 pages
In his book, A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America, Peter Steinfels notes that Church culture in a former era was glorified in the movies. There were 34 nominations for Academy Awards in 1943, 1944, and 1945 to honor movie heroes. Of these heroes were Father Flanagan in Boys'Town, Father Chuck O'Malley in Going My Way, and Karl Malden's labor priest in On the Waterfront. "There emerged a super padre, virile, wise, good-humored, compassionate, and in emergencies possessed of a remarkable knockout punch" (Steinfels, 2003, p. 71). From 1952 to 1957, Bishop ...
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