Publisher's Synopsis
Monsignor John W. Sweeley, Th.D. is known as a theologian, political scientist, historian, and educator. These attributes are amply displayed in Political, Religious, and Social Commentaries: The Struggle for Dignity, Justice, and Equality in 21st Century America. The Commentaries that appear in this book represent the first volume with many more to come of the political, religious, and social commentaries Monsignor Sweeley has written over the past fifteen years. The commentaries are written from the Liberal Catholic position of a curmudgeon in the style of "huristic philogia." "Huristic philogia" is a Greek phrase that means, "A comparative argument built by words that is ideally perfect yet incomplete because it is not able to replace the defective original it critiques." Commentaries in this book include: America in Crisis: 2000-2014 in Three Parts: The Difference between LIberals and Conservatives, Rise Up America, and There Comes a Time; American Evangelicals Inspire Ugandan Law: Death to Homosexuals; America's Multi-Billion Dollar Prison Industry; America's Political Exhaustion; America's Sexism; Amos, Hosea, and the Republican Party; An Informed Conscience as the Hermeneutic for Co-Authenticity between the Roman Catholic Church and Independent Catholicism; A reinterpretation of "Communicato in Sacris" According to the Hermeneutic of Reciprocity of Consciences as it Pertains to Independent Catholicism; Ancient Syrian Advent/Christmas Theology: The Virgin Mary as You Have Never Understood Her Before; Anthropocentric Deity: Humanity's Need to Create Religion; Anti-Catholicism in America: The Wages of Sin; Anti-Catholicism or Legitimate Critique: Apologists v. Critics; Anti-Semitism: The Perverted Faith of Our Fathers; Archbishop Frank Bugge: Esoteric Scholar; Archbishop Raymond Burke: An Open Letter; Are My Beliefs Esoteric, Exoteric, Protestant, or Catholic: Response to a Grieving Mother; Are the Tea Partiers Woodstock II?; Assisted Suicide: The Right to Death with Dignity; Augustine's View on the Episcopy; Authority and Tradition in Anglo-Catholicism; Avestan Cleanliness: The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Parsees
