Being Right: Conservative Catholics in America

Book Overview

"Being Right is a significant book and a good read for anyone seriously interested in contemporary American religion." --Nova Religio "It will be very useful to historians, challenging to theologians and indispensable to anyone trying to make sense of the bewildering variety of Catholic presence in the contemporary United States." --American Catholic Studies Newsletter "Being Right maps the mental universe of this internally diverse group and offers basic insight into how they see things... " --The Reader's Review "Editors Mary Jo Weaver and R. Scott Appleby and their collaborators immerse us in a roiling sea of contested assertion and testimony." --First Things "An in-depth look at these groups, both as they see themselves and as they appear to trained scholars." --David J. O'Brien, College of Holy Cross "Compliments must be given to Weaver and Appleby... who were able to recruit a distinguished, yet impassioned, group of essayists for this work." --Journal of Church and State Whether they focus their criticism on pro-choice rhetoric and artificial birth control or the removal of religious symbols from public squares, the Catholics profiled in this book agree that the contemporary church is in crisis.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253329221
• ISBN13: 9780253329226
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

Weaver

Weaver is absolutely brilliant. You will never meet anyone who is more knowledgable about the Catholic Church, period.

A good resource when read along with its companion book.

When read with its companion book on liberal Catholics ("What's Left", also edited by Mary Jo Weaver), this is an excellent reference for understanding the issues that face thinking Catholics in America today.On an earlier reviewer's objection to the use of the term "Anglo" to refer to non-Hispanic Catholics in America, including those of Irish descent like himself, I would like to point out that "Anglo" is really an abbreviated form of "anglophone", which refers (in New Mexico, as in Quebec) to those of us whose native tongue is English. I doubt that the objecting reviewer speaks Irish Gaelic today, any more than I speak German today. From the point of view of the linguistic minorities in North America, we are both anglophones, or "Anglos" for short. It's accurate. Live with it.