Title: Practicing Catholic : essays literary, historical, sporting and elegiac /
Authors: Weigel, George, 1951-
Publisher: Crossroad Pub. Co.,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Catholic Church History
Contents: Essays: trying by writing. a brief literary memoir in our times -- Sixties, again and again and again -- Scoundrel time -- Truths still held? Murray's "American proposition," fifty years on -- Rescuing Gaudium et spes: the Christian humanism of John Paul II -- Blair, Benedict, And Britain -- Benedict XVI and the future of the west -- Men of letters -- St. Evelyn Waugh -- Making sense of H.l. Mencken -- Unjustly unremembered Paul Horgan -- Catholics in these United States -- American Catholic story, contested -- U.S. Catholics as they were and are -- End of the Bernardin era -- Sporting life -- Baseball: then and now and whenever -- John unitas vs. the Klingons -- Remembrance -- Pope John Paul II, 1920-2005 -- Henry J. Hyde, 1924-2007 -- Aaron Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, 1926-2007 -- Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., 1918-2008 -- Richard John Neuhaus, 1936-2009 -- Leszek Koakowski, 1927-2009 -- Robert Charles Susil, 1974-2010.