Where the Spirit Breathes:
Skillin, Edward S
IN BRIEF Where the Spirit Breathes: Prophetic Dissent in the Church, by Jose I. Gonzalez Faus. Orbis Books, $10.95,140 pp. Who would question the love for the church of those saints who stringently...
...An exception to this contrast is a quotation from Giovanni Papini (1881-1956) to the effect that the official church is no longer composed of missionaries but of functionaries...
...One of th e book's most positive and useful sections provides guidelines for loving, well-based, and effective dissent, together with guidance for church leaders on the reception of such criticisms, much of this thanks to German theologians...
...Who would question the love for the church of those saints who stringently protested the abuses that ultimately led to the Reformation...
...It is a challenge to us all-as is the duty of dissent...
...The author challenges the church to be in the vanguard of the restructuring forces needed to bring solidarity and justice to the world...
...E.S.S..S...
...Yet there are too few who credit with a genuine love of the church modern Catholic critics of popes and bishops...
...This persuasive and well-annotated anthology calls pre-Tridentine dissent "personal," because of its emphasis on corruption in the clergy, and postTridentine dissent "structural," since it has focused largely on questions of authority...
...The final pages, on the "preference for the poor," contrast the atrocious spectacle of human malnutrition and misery, in a world of potential sufficiency for all, with the demands of the Gospel...
Vol. 116 • October 1989 • No. 18
