Why I Am Still a Catholic Essays in Faith and Perseverance
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 A Global Caravan Site -- 2 Roots and Reins -- 3 A Little Bit of Grit -- 4 Put to the Test -- 5 The Ant on the Face of the Computer -- 6 On the Sidelines of a Culture of Death -- 7 Angels and Dirt -- 8 Thy Will Be Done -- 9 More than a Plastic Paddy -- 10 Locked Away Like a Nun -- 11 Only When I Laugh -- 12 Final Perseverance -- 13 This Peculiar Marriage -- 14 A Work in Progress
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9781441130471, 9780826491459, 1441130470, 0826491456
1031211155
1. Cherie Booth QC on Catholic social teaching and its influence on her career; 2. Rugby legend Shaun Edwards on how faith saw him through the tragedy of his younger brother's death; 3. Channel 4 presenter Dermot O'Leary on conscience and how he still prays every night; 4. Writer Christina Odone writes how her marriage to a. divorcee has excluded her from the sacraments but not the Church; 5. Award-winning script-writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce imagines a dialogue with God to devise a new Penny Catechism; 6. Today's Edward Stourton traces his faith back to Reformation rebels; 7. Anne Maguire on how her faith sustained her while imprisoned for nine years for terrorist crimes she did not commit; 8. Comedian Mel Gieldroyc (of Mel and Sue) on the pull of her Polish Catholic roots; 9. Journalist Charlie Brown on being gay and Catholic; 10. Stem-cell research expert Professor Neil Scolding on discrimination against Catholics in science; 11. Baroness Patricia Scotland, Home Office minister, on being a Catholic in government; 12. Former priest and leader of CND, Bruce Kent, on life from the other side of the altar rails.