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This novel begins with the transformation of a fictionalized American cardinal after he realizes she has done more to himself as the chief executive officer of a big business rather than as a pastor whose life reflects the teachings of Christ to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, caring for the sick, etc. Above all, many readers may feel they can predict the outcome before the end of the novel: the prelate would be treated as a pariah by his fellow bishops and quietly removed from his post, with a designated successor, which includes the entire State of Catholic Bishops of today is to fall into lockstep behind the pope. But the novel has unexpected twists and turns.
  Approximately one quarter through the book, the author, a former journalist who covered Vatican II for Time magazine, presented a series of stimulating ideas for increasing participation of the laity in all aspects of the church. Much good as the beloved Pope John XXIII once said: "The Catholic Church is its people, as opposed to hierarchical. In the novel, the priest wears a shortage of the church in California, run by a nun to take communion services instead of a mass. But the nun in this story is doing something relatively unique: she invited the small congregation to join in saying the Eucharistic Prayer in unison aloud.
  After communion services reaches the local bishop, and finally the Vatican, all conservatives are aghast that this upstart nun is the democratization of the dough and let all the congregation to join in the feeling of playing a role in consecrating bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ. However, a participant in the communion service as described in this way. "The first thing I would not call ourselves Masses. Second thing, these are the most devout, solemn liturgies I have ever seen. When we say the words (of the Eucharistic prayer), we say in the kind of wonder-filled tones we use when we are reading our nieces and nephews, his bedtime stories. " However, the Vatican and the conservative American bishops to get everyone in a tizzy over the thought of people saying the same words used by the priest at mass.
  The typical Catholic mass in the United States involving a priest with a very long homily, and then making up for lost time by racing through the shortest eucharistic prayer for the consecration. Because of this limitation of time, the fourth Eucharistic prayer, which is the longest of the four available to the prayer of consecration, is seldom used. However, Eucharistic Prayer IV contains the most beautiful of all the words: "Father, who so loved the world that in the fullness of time you sent your only Son to be our Savior. Was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, a man like us in all things but sin. To the poor he proclaimed the good news of salvation, to prisoners, freedom, and of sadness, joy. Pursuant to his will gave himself up to death, but by rising from the dead destroyed death and restored life. And we can no longer live for ourselves but for him, he sent the Holy Spirit to you, Father, as his first gift to those who believe, to complete their work on earth and bring us the fullness of grace. "
  Why not let the laity - the congregation - these beautiful words to say aloud during Mass? For too long the Conservatives running the Church have tried to maintain the pre-Vatican II notion that the clergy to dispense with God and through the work of the laity is to find these passively through ministerial clergy - in an ultimately process controlled by the Vatican. However, in 1965, towards the end of Vatican II, Pope Paul VI stated that the passive nature of the laity has changed. Outside the estate, the Second Vatican Council sought to codify and recognize the spiritual gifts were equally to secular (if not greater than) the spiritual gifts of the clergy.
  How welcome the fact, then, is depicted in scenes CARDENAL Mahony, in which the Church in California and eventually throughout the country, meeting all of the renegade nun, conservative forces of the hierarchy down and requires a greater say in church administration and accountability of their bishops. The novel explains the concept of a local church - which is 100% Catholic and loyal to the pope, it still retains some power of decision. As Kaiser says, does not mean autochthony autonomy, which means "house of production."
  According to Kaiser, since 2007, the Vatican recognizes twenty to a local church within the Catholic Church. These churches are Melkites in Lebanon, the Maronites, and a branch of Eastern Europe that has remained married Catholic priests from their first existence. In fact, the Catholic Church in Africa and Latin America today and has "homemade" items in the prevalence of priests with their unofficial. "It's an open secret that many Catholic priests - especially in Africa and Latin America - have taken the common law wives," wrote Don Lattinen distributed nationally in a religious article for the San Francisco Chronicle in 1994.
  Reading CARDENAL Mahony will cause readers to reexamine their faith and what they have learned about the church since childhood catechism classes. Whether it is a greater accountability of diocesan finances or censor the views of the Catholic press, real reforms are still needed throughout the world in the Roman Catholic Church. Hundreds of millions of Catholics left the church during the long reign of Pope John Paul II, because unfed spiritually. Also, the voting results on religion in United States published in late February 2008 by the Pew Foundation showed Roman Catholics were more likely than any other denomination to abandon their faith.
  The Roman Catholic Church represents CARDENAL Mahony is so inspiring and hopeful that it comes as a drop when the book is finished, and the reader must return to reality. I recommend all progressive Catholics reading this book, their application for local public libraries to add their collections, and use the book to discuss issues of whether readers want to play a more active role in the life of the Church.

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