Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Why Priests?
By Garry Wills (Viking, 2013)
One of the church's most noted
inside critics, historian Garry Wills, shows no signs of slowing at nearly 80
years old. In fact, his latest thesis in Why Priests? A Failed Tradition is
as controversial as he's ever set forth: that the priesthood was a mistaken
notion later introduced to Christianity; that it has needlessly separated
Catholics from their fellow Christians; and that it has propped up equally
wrong doctrines--such as the real presence in the Eucharist and the priesthood
of Jesus--that otherwise never would have come into being. Read
more.
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