Name: Confession Of A Lapsed Catholic
Price: 14.49 GBP
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Author: Sheila Cassidy
ISBN: 9780232528404

Sheila Cassidy's honest and wise books on suffering and healing have made her one of the UK's best-loved and most popular writers on pastoral care and personal growth. She is widely known for her work in the hospice movement, and as a young doctor who survived torture for daring to give medical care to an opponent of the Pinochet regime in Chile. Her Catholic faith has led, comforted and sustained her for over sixty years. Now, in Confessions of a Lapsed Catholic, Cassidy writes: 'I no longer attend Mass, I no longer avail myself of the sacraments, those "outward signs of inward grace" which sustained me in my earlier years. God is to be found outside the Church even more than in it: in nature, in people, in animals, in poetry and in all the wild and wonderful works of the Divine. God is everywhere, in everything shining forth, if we only care to look. '

Confession Of A Lapsed Catholic and Lent is for Loving

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Dr Sheila Cassidy, famous for her work in pastoral care and the hospice movement, details in this new book the loss of the Catholic faith which had sustained her for sixty years. Her argument now is that God is too narrowly restricted within the Catholic church and is to be found more fully and inspiringly outside, in all the works of nature and of mankind. She is not bitter against the faith in which she was brought up and from which she gained so much. She has now moved on from institutional religion to a wider appreciation of God’s splendour in everything she sees around her, the God that gave His life that we may have it more abundantly. This life is not to be found in sacraments and ritual but within us and around us. In some ways she still regards herself as a Catholic who does not go to mass nor receive the sacraments. This is one woman’s odyssey, a personal view, and an honest one which is always interesting and informative. Many will agree with her arguments, many will disagree. It will stimulate controversy and this is what makes the book very readable.

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