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Michael H Crosby
In this courageous work, Michael Crosby offers a trenchant analysis of mandatory celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church. He shows how the imposition of celibacy has now revealed a deeper…
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Michael H. Crosby
The household was the basic unit of the early church; it also constituted the basic unit of political economy until the Industrial Revolution. This richly detailed work uses the notion…
Repair my house. From a crucifix in a ruined chapel, St. Francis heard this instruction, which set him on a mission of evangelical renewal. In the light of unprecedented crisis…
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Crosby will take each Fruit of the Holy Spirit in turn and explicate its meaning for St. Paul (or St. Jerome), as well as its value and importance in the…
In this courageous work Michael Crosby offers a trenchant analysis of mandatory celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church. He shows how the imposition of celibacy has now revealed a deeper…
Throughout the Gospel of John Jesus poses a series of questions: What are you looking for?Do you want to be healed?Why do I speak to you at all…
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The Lord’s Prayer, the prayer that Jesus taught us, is one of the most familiar and beloved of all prayers. But familiarity has dulled its radical edge. In this close…
Michael Crosby explores the meaning of the Beatitudes’ eight verses, relating a spiritual message of Matthew’s Gospel.
In a world afflicted by violence, in a society marked by a growing gulf between rich and poor, in a church polarized around issues of power and authority, the example…
Appointed by the Vatican as the External Collaborator to the Relator for the cause of canonization of Capuchin Father Solanus Casey, the first man born in the United States to…
Reduced to its simplest form, The Dysfunctional Church maintains that: -The Catholic church is an addict, an institutional addict. - It’s addicted to preserving the male, celibate, clerical model of…
