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Bringing together leading voices in theology and ministry, this book examines how racism is embedded in social structures and ecclesial practices, and calls Christian communities to honest reckoning, repentance, and action. Rooted in faith and shaped by lived experience, \u003cem data-start=\"536\" data-end=\"555\"\u003eWhy We Can’t Wait\u003c\/em\u003e invites readers to move beyond statements of concern toward sustained commitment to justice, reconciliation, and transformative change. It is a timely and necessary resource for churches, classrooms, and all who seek a more faithful response to racial injustice.\u003c\/p\u003e\nAnnual Volume #68 of the College Theology Society will be on the theme of racism and the church, incorporating approximately fifteen essays drawn from presentations given at the spring 2022 conference at the University of Detroit-Mercy in Detroit, Michigan. 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If the candidate can't do it, or doesn't know the book, keep looking.\" - \u003cb\u003eMichael Sean Winters, National Catholic Reporter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #134ea6;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"[Faggioli]] reminds his readers that you cannot have a vital church without good theology—religion will drift with the prevailing tides—and you cannot have good Catholic theology without the church. . . . an important book.\"—David J. O'Brien in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Catholic Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #134ea6;\"\u003e\"Thanks to Massimo Faggioli for devoting himself to helping us write the next chapter in our American Catholic history.\"\u003cb\u003e -David O'Brien, College of the Holy Cross, American Catholic Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #134ea6;\"\u003e“As Massimo Faggioli argues, only a theology that is at once critical, engaged, and unambiguously ecclesial will have the capacity to nourish the present renewal of the Church and its mission. A must read.”—\u003cb\u003eCatherine E. Clifford, professor, systematic and historical theology, Saint Paul University, Ottawa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #134ea6;\"\u003e“Reading this book excited me: it made plain the urgency and magnitude of the situation, but its vision for a concrete way forward also projects hope.”\u003cb\u003e—Kristin Colberg, professor, theology, College of Saint Benedict, Saint John’s University, MN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #134ea6;\"\u003e“Traditionalists attack them. Bishops ignore them. Think-tanks rise up to displace them. Technocratic administrators dismantle their departments. Beyond the besiegement, Faggioli's call is to his fellow theologians: continue to be critical but dare to do theology for the Church.” \u003cb\u003e—Gerald W. Schlabach, professor emeritus, theology, University of St. Thomas, MN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #134ea6;\"\u003e“Faggioli’s deeply researched discussion will help Catholic theologians and administrators alike understand the place of academic theology in Catholic institutions of higher learning.”\u003cb\u003e—Phyllis Zagano, Hofstra University; author, \u003ci\u003eJust Church: Catholic Social Teaching, Synodality, and Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cimg style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0185\/6438\/2784\/files\/image.webp?v=1717698091\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"77\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e“Our problem in Catholic higher education is bigger than the collapse of ecclesial credibility, bigger than the behavior of the bishops, bigger than the waning interest in theological studies, and bigger than politics.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2; tab-stops: center 3.25in left 352.2pt;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e—Massimo Faggioli\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2; tab-stops: center 3.25in left 352.2pt;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eMany Catholic universities in the United States have put their Catholic mission at risk—by either ceding to secular neoliberal values or by doubling down on reactionary Catholic tribalism. Student enrollment declines as some schools market themselves no differently than secular colleges. Other, conversely, neo-traditionalist Catholic colleges ally themselves with regressive elements of the Church. Both trends, Faggioli says, reflect a dismantling of Vatican II’s vision for Catholic education. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 1.55in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e                              \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eScrutinizing this crisis in detail, Massimo Faggioli reviews the snowballing changes in Catholic higher education, advocating for a renewed incarnational and sacramental Catholic educational philosophy that rejects accommodation to secular technocracy as well as Catholic tribalism in order to embody the inclusive, socially conscious values of the Catholic tradition as expressed in the theology of Vatican II. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 1.45in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e                             \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2d2d2d; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;\"\u003eMassimo Faggioli\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2d2d2d; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;\"\u003e is professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University and a contributing writer to \u003ci\u003eCommonweal \u003c\/i\u003emagazine and \u003ci\u003eLa Croix International\u003c\/i\u003e. He was co-founder of the unit “Vatican II Studies” at the American Academy of Religion and is on the board of editors of the journal \u003ci\u003eConcilium\u003c\/i\u003e. His recent publications include \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Vatican II\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with Catherine Clifford, 2023) and, for Orbis Books, \u003ci\u003eThe Liminal Papacy of Pope Francis. Moving Toward Global Catholicity\u003c\/i\u003e (2020).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlso Of Interest\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/orbisbooks.com\/products\/what-makes-education-catholic?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=08a5761c4\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0185\/6438\/2784\/files\/whatmakeseducationcatholic_720x_df7440d4-b6f4-4c76-91c0-e487d8e9906a.webp?v=1713205318\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"258\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/orbisbooks.com\/products\/conscience-and-catholic-education-theology-administration-and-teaching?_pos=2\u0026amp;_sid=be058ceea\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0185\/6438\/2784\/files\/9781626984523_360x_a58b0dfa-8149-41ae-b64c-91abaf54ded1.webp?v=1713205371\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"258\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/ex31xhy4fogzx0aq-18564382784.shopifypreview.com\/products\/come-to-believe?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=d422983c5\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0185\/6438\/2784\/files\/9781626982208_540x_496d8dc1-1506-4cc8-8088-f2f5bd6bfdbb.webp?v=1713205771\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"258\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"display: block; 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James T. Keane is a great critic, and \u003ci\u003eReading Culture through Catholic Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e is an absolute treat for readers. Keane offers colorful and concise essays on 50 essential writers, ranging from the iconic (Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy) to the underrated (Andre Dubus, Brian Doyle) to contemporary talents (Kirstin Valdez Quade, Phil Klay). Keane’s wit and wisdom will inspire readers to follow his able lead on their own literary travels.” ꟷ\u003cb\u003eNick Ripatrazone, author, \u003ci\u003eLonging for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(17, 59, 124);\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(17, 59, 124);\"\u003e“For those of us who thumbed through the lives of the saints during Mass but lamented how those lives failed to reflect our own, James T. Keane's \u003ci\u003eReading Culture through Catholic Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e provides an inclusive and powerful new hagiography. This book is a deeply necessary catalogue of the undersung leftist Catholic tradition.” ꟷ\u003cb\u003eLaura E. Goode, Stanford University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(17, 59, 124);\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(17, 59, 124);\"\u003e“James T. Keane's \u003ci\u003eReading Culture through Catholic Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e is really three books in one: a book about Catholic writers renowned and overlooked; a registry of the literary criticism undertaken in \u003ci\u003eAmerica; \u003c\/i\u003eand an encounter with the amiably all-knowing sensibility of Keane himself.” ꟷ\u003cb\u003ePaul Elie, author, \u003ci\u003eThe Life You Save May Be Your Own\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eReinventing Bach\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(17, 59, 124);\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(17, 59, 124);\"\u003e“Among the favorite and familiar Catholic thinkers found in this volume, James T. Keane also adds the unexpected and the off-beat. Readers will find new voices to enjoy along with revelatory takes on old ones.” ꟷ\u003cb\u003eNatalia Imperatori-Lee, author, \u003ci\u003eCuéntame: Narrative in the Ecclesial Present\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #01060d;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cimg style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0185\/6438\/2784\/files\/Untitleddesign_3_480x480_255dce24-eaeb-4c08-8274-abc47204d28a.webp?v=1707416101\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"79\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"\u003eEnjoy this book. Add it to your library. Treat it like its own little library, and enjoy the edification and education, challenge, and joy of reading Jim’s informed cultural commentary on so many of our greatest writers, thinkers, and firebrands.—from the Introduction by James Martin, SJ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"\u003eAmerica\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"\u003e columnist and Catholic cultural and literary critic, James T. Keane, brings together fifty varied voices--including some underappreciated ones--and reflects on their cultural, political, literary, and religious influence. His smart, accessible style brings thought leaders into conversation with a Catholic sensibility, opening unexpected insights into our current moment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"\u003eAmong these fifty figures are John Kennedy Toole, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Dorothy Day, Jon Hassler, Mary Karr, Martin Amis, Toni Morrison, Graham Greene, Shusaku Endo, Andre Dubus III, Iris Murdoch, Colm Tóibín, J.F. Powers, Salman Rushdie, Mary Gordon, Wendell Berry, Thich Nhat Hanh, Sigrid Undset, Alice McDermott, and John Irving.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"\u003eReading Culture through Catholic Eyes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"\u003ecombines Keane’s breadth of knowledge of literary and cultural voices with a deep background in Catholic theology and spirituality. For general readers who appreciate lively and relevant writing, this book is a must-have.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"\u003eJames T. Keane \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: #0f1111;\"\u003eis a senior editor and award-winning columnist at America Media, where he oversees the magazine’s “Faith and Reason” and literary sections. 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