Reviewers like to say, "this is a book which everyone should read." I wouldn’t say that about Jim Shannon’s Reluctant Dissenter, but I would say that it is a book every American Catholic bishop should read. That won’t exactly swell sales, but it would target the proper audience. James Patrick Shannon is the "reluctant dissenter" of the title. An autobiograph (...)
April 09, 1999
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Reluctant Dissenter
Reluctant DissenterAn AutobiographyJames Patrick ShannonCrossroad, $19.95, 228 pp.
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