In Why You Can Disagree and Remain a Faithful Catholic Kaufman provides a well-researched and informed look at many of the issues that divide the Catholic Church hierarchy and many of the faithful today. Some of these issues include birth control, divorce and remarriage, and democracy within the church. Kaufman addresses each of these issues in detail exploring Biblical and traditional interpretations and how they've changed over time.
Editorial Reviews
"Catholics might consider giving this holy and hopeful book to friends who say they have 'fallen away' because they couldn't buy all the church's 'certain teachings' on birth control or on divorce and remarriage. As Father Kaufman reviews those teachings, we begin to see that they're not certain. And, as he says, since the people of God haven't 'received' them, they're hardly even 'teachings' either." --Robert Blair Kalser, author of The Politics of Sex and Religion
"[B]ased on the author's profound understanding of controversies as complex as birth control, divorce, and infallibility...immensely informative and helpful to Catholics troubled by moral and doctrinal conundrums." --Robert L. Spaeth, author of The Church and a Catholic's Conscience
"[A] carefully reasoned and balanced presentation of a subtle and complex argument. His position on controversial issues in the church is one with which many laity already agree completely and which the clergy and the hierarchy cannot afford to ignore." --Andrew Greeley
"Fr. Kaufman's book is a little late for me but should be a refreshing relief to those still struggling with the Vatican teaching on birth control and divorce. It is a most welcome validation of what our battered consciences were trying to tell us all along." --Mary Rose Nuse, counselor, Spruce Run Shelter for Battered Women, Bangor Maine
"[A] convincing case...in-depth research and reasoning which insists on the right of the People of God to know." --Edward S. Skillin, publisher, Commonweal
About the Author
Philip S. Kaufman, a Benedictine monk for nearly fifty years, has published numerous articles. Until his recent retirement at St. John's abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota, he taught adult education in the St. John's University House of Studies.
