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	Book Review: Icons & Iconoclasts: How Secrecy and Denial Shattered the Catholic Church’s Prestige—and How It Can Recover Voice from the Desert February 22, 2010 http://reform-network.net/?p=2626 Icons & Iconoclasts: How Secrecy and Denial Shattered the Catholic Church’s Prestige—and How It Can Recover is a series essays on Catholic icons, i.e. Catholic heroes, and Catholic iconoclasts, i.e., Catholic rogues. The well-written essays examine two vital faces of Catholic culture—dynamism and dysfunction. The heroes include Mother Teresa, Elizabeth Ann Seton, John Paul II, and Saint Thomas Aquinas. The author’s rogue gallery includes Marcial Maciel Degollado, Bernard Cardinal Law, and Roger Cardinal Mahony. The author is Christopher Meade, a priest for 9 years in the Catholic Church. Rev. Meade resigned when he could no longer reconcile the humility and love that are central to the Catholic faith with the secrecy and denial that mark the hierarchy’s approach to the worldwide clerical sex abuse scandal. Meade explores his journey of faith and on the way provides insights on Catholic customs, culture, and history. He proposes solutions that he hopes will provoke informed dialogue, greater openness, and intelligent reform. More on Meade and his book can be found on his website: http://iconsandiconoclasts.com/
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