The Bishop of San Francisco: Romance, Intrigue and Religion - Softcover

Bianchi, Eugene

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ISBN 10: 142084153X ISBN 13: 9781420841534

Verlag: AuthorHouse, 2005

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Archbishop Mark Doyle, a church reformer and a martial arts expert, falls wildly in love with his therapist, Miriam Faberini. Their love affair would be enough to complicate a celibate bishop's life, but his troubles multiply when two of his priests are murdered. A clandestine Catholic group claims responsibility for both killings, and vows to eliminate Doyle as a symbol of corrupt liberalism. The Vatican demands that Doyle account for damaging allegations against him. His shadowy nemesis, a priest defrocked for sexually abusing teenage boys, dogs the Archbishop's every step. His story displays key tensions agitating the still medieval structures of today's church. Surprising, shocking piece of fiction from a well-known scholar quite obviously off on a lark. He''s created a bigger-than-life bishop, a liberation theologian who does aikido, drinks Dewar's, canoodles on a regular basis with his shrink-lover and leads his flock into near-schism while the Vatican pushes for his quiet resignation and a psychotic stalker tries to kill him. If this novel is a mischievous preview of the church-to-come, we''re in for quite a roller-coaster ride. What fun! Robert Blair Kaiser, author, contributing editor, Newsweek magazine "Eugene Bianchi''s fast-paced novel centers in the liberal reforming bishop of San Francisco, Mark Doyle, in love with his therapist. Around them swirl all the conflicts of contemporary Catholicism: liberation theology, the role of women in the church, celibacy, homosexuality, pedophile priests. Dark forces opposed to church reform conspire against them, plotting violence and assassinations of priests, in a story that ranges from Nicaragua to Northern California and Rome. A fun read you will not be able to put down until you finish." Rosemary Radford Ruether Carpenter Professor of Feminist Theology Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California

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Eugene Bianchi, emeritus professor of religion at Emory University, is the author of nine other books and many essays. His topics range from church reform, religion and ecology to creative aging. As a former Jesuit, his personal experience and scholarship give him a unique perspective on church conflict. He shapes a page-turner story that rings true in the context of struggling forces within the Catholic Church today. His gripping tale of Mark Doyle, the dynamic and controversial Archbishop of San Francisco, combines romance, intrigue and religion. Bianchi hails from Oakland, California, and presently makes his home in Athens, Georgia. His recent book is Passionate Uncertainty: Inside the American Jesuits, co-authored with Peter McDonough.

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• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 142084153X
• ISBN 13: 9781420841534
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272