Keeping the Faith: Church of Rome or Church of Christ

Name: Keeping the Faith: Church of Rome or Church of Christ
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Keeping the Faith poses many questions but also provides suggestions about where the church can go from here. Flannery’s vision is an honest but optimistic one and as such is compelling and essential reading.

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ISBN: 9781856354844 Categories: Mind Body Spirit, Non-Fiction, Religion Tags: Catholic Church, Catholicism, Christian theology, compulsory celibacy, Infallibility, Priests, Virgin Birth

Keeping the Faith: Church of Rome or Church of Christ

Tony Flannery

The story

About the author

Tony Flannery

Tony Flannery CSSR is the author of the best-selling book From the Inside. He was born in Attymon, County Galway and has been a Redemptorist priest for twenty-six years, with much of that time spent in Limerick. He has a large following as a preacher and retreat master.

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‘Either the church once again puts the liberation of humanity at the centre of its message or it will become increasingly marginalised and irrelevant.’

For over thirty years Tony Flannery has devoted his life to preaching the message of Christ as a priest of the Catholic church. Gradually, however, he has become ill at ease with the church’s tendency to preserve its institutional well-being rather than proclaim the message.

From the author of From the Inside comes Keeping the Faith, a candid and fresh assessment of where the Church is going wrong, written by a man who has devoted his life to serving it. The issues focused on in the book include the following: A. The misuse and abuse of authority by the Church down through the centuries; how this happened, and what structural and systemic change is needed to overcome it. B. Two problematic doctrines that are part of Church teaching: Infallibility and the Virgin Birth. Flannery questions both the meaning and the use made of both. C. Opening up the Church to all believers, including women. D. Abolishing compulsory celibacy for priests.