cover image A Love That Dares to Question: A Bishop Challenges His Church

A Love That Dares to Question: A Bishop Challenges His Church

John Heaps. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, $12 (127pp) ISBN 978-0-8028-3958-9

In A Love That Dares to Question: A Bishop Challenges His Church, retired Australian bishop John Heaps discusses some of the issues facing the Roman Catholic Church today, including celibacy, the shortage of priests, women's ordination and the role of the laity. Heaps expresses concern for what he calls a ""closed fearful mentality"" that has seized the Vatican, preventing honest, open discussion of such issues. Heaps's voice can be strident, but his passion is matched by rigorous thinking and a generosity of spirit. Many Catholics will appreciate this firebrand from Down Under.