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Fran Maier’s New Book, Featuring 103 Interviews — 30 With Bishops — Gets to ‘The Heart of the Matter’
Fran Maier at home in Pennslyvania. (photo: Sarah Webb / National Catholic Register)
TRUE CONFESSIONS
Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church
By Francis X. Maier
Ignatius Press, 2024
284 pages, $24.95
To order: TRUE CONFESSIONS - Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church | EWTN Religious Catalogue
Francis X. Maier’s book, True Confessions, arrives as an interpretive key to the Church in our time.
An old saying warns that “the past is a foreign country,” whose customs and inner life are difficult for later generations to understand.
But the present has become similarly strange, as news media decline in reliability and social media become a perpetual brawl. Caught between competing conspiracy theories, we hardly know what to believe in the daily reports.
True Confessions is a revelation of what’s really going on, not only in the actions of Church leaders, but in their thoughts and motives.
It’s an unusual book — largely an assemblage of others’ voices. Maier conducted 103 interviews for the book, 30 with bishops, then more with pastors, big-dollar donors, religious women and men, academics, and founders and leaders of lay apostolates. All were given the option of anonymity, and many chose it.
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TRUE CONFESSIONS
Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church
By Francis X. Maier
Ignatius Press, 2024
284 pages, $24.95
To order: TRUE CONFESSIONS - Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church | EWTN Religious Catalogue
Francis X. Maier’s book, True Confessions, arrives as an interpretive key to the Church in our time.
An old saying warns that “the past is a foreign country,” whose customs and inner life are difficult for later generations to understand.
But the present has become similarly strange, as news media decline in reliability and social media become a perpetual brawl. Caught between competing conspiracy theories, we hardly know what to believe in the daily reports.
True Confessions is a revelation of what’s really going on, not only in the actions of Church leaders, but in their thoughts and motives.
It’s an unusual book — largely an assemblage of others’ voices. Maier conducted 103 interviews for the book, 30 with bishops, then more with pastors, big-dollar donors, religious women and men, academics, and founders and leaders of lay apostolates. All were given the option of anonymity, and many chose it.
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‘True Confessions’ Offers Interpretive Key to the Church in Our Time
Fran Maier’s New Book, Featuring 103 Interviews — 30 With Bishops — Gets to ‘The Heart of the Matter’
