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Article: APPOINTMENT IN ROME: THE CHURCH IN AMERICA AWAKENING.(Review)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- February 26, 1999
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APPOINTMENT IN ROME: THE CHURCH IN AWAKENING By Richard John Neuhaus Crossroad, $24.95, hardcover
Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, a former Episcopal minister who is now a Catholic priest, was chosen by Pope John Paul II to be one of five non-mitered members at the Synod of Bishops for America that opened in Rome in November 1997. This book is his version of the event.
It was a very boring assignment. "Not since that year in the fourth grade under Miss Woodward have I experienced such tedium" is the opening line in his account. Each of the 233 voting members, of whom he was one, was given eight minutes to speak. Latin, Italian, French, English and Spanish were ...