UNITED STATES
Denver Post – Hark
By John F. Kane Contributor
A review of Lee Kaspari’s “The Long Journey of a Cradle Catholic: My Evolution from Admiration to Anguish and Back to Hope.” Caritas Communications, 2014.
This book is written by a Denver resident who has long been an “ex-priest.” But it could have been written by thousands of priests and ex-priests of his and my generation. Indeed, it speaks to the experience of most Catholics during the second half of the last century and the opening decades of this new one.
It speaks especially for the many good men who are or were “ordinary” Catholic priests – the men who, according to virtually every survey and analysis of contemporary Catholicism in the United States, have kept things going at the local level, even flourishing, despite so many missteps and even crimes by those up the hierarchical ladder.
It also speaks indirectly (except in one important closing chapter) of the many Catholic women, the sisters and their sisters (our mothers and aunts and sisters) who have probably been even more responsible for keeping things going and even flourishing.
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