We Are A House Divided: It Is Not Enemies Who Taunt Me, It Is You My Faithful Friend PS 55 - Softcover

Dolan, Michael

9780595479306: We Are A House Divided: It Is Not Enemies Who Taunt Me, It Is You My Faithful Friend PS 55

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595479308 ISBN 13: 9780595479306

Publisher: Iuniverse Inc, 2008

Father Dolan argues in his book We Are a House Divided that Catholics are experiencing a crisis of conscience and identity aided and abetted by Catholic leaders, politicians and voters who fail to apply the Church's teachings to the nation's civic discourse.

The author provides an in-depth review and defense of the Church's stance on abortion, stem cell research and other critical issues of our time. He then offers recommendations for Church officials, politicians and the laity on actions that can be taken to restore the Catholic faith in daily life.

Indeed, there has been a long standing disconnect between the positions and behavior of the Democratic Party, its office holders and candidates with regards non-negotiable Catholic moral teachings. In the book's final chapter, Repairing the Damage, Father Dolan proposes among other things that the present time is optimum for faithful, committed Catholic voters, as well as other voters of like mind, to withhold their support of that Party and its candidates unless and until acceptable changes are made.

The book's overriding principle is that "Catholic" is not a label to be worn but a life to be lived.

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About the Author:

Father Michael Dolan is a widower, father, grandfather, great grandfather, retired naval officer, physician, and a Roman Catholic priest currently in residence in Silver Spring, Maryland. He received his undergraduate degree from Manhattan College and his medical degree from New York Medical College both in New York City. He received a Master?s degree from Johns Hopkins University and his Master of Divinity from the Pope John XXIII National Seminary in Weston, Massachusetts. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Washington on December 14, 1997.

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