“No institution is as multicultural or multilingual, few touch as many people,” writes McGreevy. But this same church is vibrant and growing steadily outside of Europe and North America. The crimes against innocents have been a big contributor to the cratering of membership in much of the world. A church that has survived Christian-on-Christian wars, corruption on a scale that would make Satan blush and state campaigns to crush everyday Catholicism is still mired in what may be its worst crisis ever - clerical sexual abuse and the institutional cover-up. If he doesn’t answer the questions that a curious 12-year-old in Spokane, Wash., once had, he does a remarkable job of explaining how the epic struggle between reformists and traditionalists has led us to the present moment in the Roman Catholic Church.Īnd what a moment it is. McGreevy, a professor of history at Notre Dame and author of three books on Catholicism, with an attempt at making narrative sense of one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of the oldest institution in the Western world. As the Irish Catholic comedian George Carlin noted, the priest who was supposed to have all the answers responded to a student’s perplexed queries with the inevitable, “Well, it’s a mystery.” It was torture, yes, but also a spiritual muddle. All those monarchs and ministers, the papal edicts and parsing of purgatory, the vast inexplicability of the doctrine of infallibility. When I was a tween kid in salt-and-pepper corduroys at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary school, the only thing I feared more than an authoritarian nun with a stiff ruler was the prospect of that class known as church history. In a world of unlimited screen time, Epic! is a smart alternative to generic games and videos.CATHOLICISM: A Global History From the French Revolution to Pope Francis, by John T. Beautifully designed for mobile, and featuring fun, game-like elements, Epic! provides kids with a personal library-on-demand that they can take with them anywhere. Personalized for each individual reader, Epic! is the only place to access thousands of high-quality, curated children’s books without having to purchase or download titles individually. To sign up for your free educator account, please visit With an Epic! subscription, books can be easily discovered, read and shared with friends. You can sign up for a free educator account on the website using your school email address. Partnerships with leading publishers, including HarperCollins and National Geographic, bring age-appropriate, award-winning fiction and non-fiction books to your child's fingertips.Įpic is free for elementary school TEACHERS Epic!'s ever-expanding library also includes thousands of Read-to-Me books, audio books, educational videos, and fun educational quizzes. Springer, Pramawattie Kindergarten ResourceĮpic! is the world's leading online children's subscription book service offering immediate, on-demand access to over 25,000 high-quality illustrated books and chapter books for children ages 12 and under.
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