Correspondence: Tributes, taking issue
landers, a baseball team later sold to Colonel Jacob Ruppert and renamed the New York Yankees." McDonald's narra- tive is equally engaging when we meet the author's father, Frank...
...Maurice Timothy Reidy b an editorial assistant at Commonweal...
...The chapters on the author's brother (Frank, Jr...
...At times, McDonald's writing seems clearly the property of the NYPD and all of its trite bar-room banter: "At home he was a father who put his whole heart into trying to build a home for his family...
...The (Continued from page 4) experiences of most church leaders ministries and at Creighton Universi- suggest, and most research confirms, ty's Center for Marriage and Family...
...For the author's own literary style--his use of metaphor, simile, and anecdote--reveals that struggle...
...McDonald once considered becoming a cop, but decided instead, after working odd acting and bartending jobs, to become a writer...
...people "are still strongly attached to CORRESPONDENCE Catholicism, if in their own way...
...landers, a baseball team later sold to Colonel Jacob Ruppert and renamed the New York Yankees...
...The most poignant moments in this book remain those in which the author reveals his own story...
...McDonald's narrative is equally engaging when we meet the author's father, Frank McDonald-the son of an immigrant coal miner who used the civil service exam to climb the NYPD's professional ladder...
...however, aren't as strong...
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...In fact, the struggle between McDonald's identity as the grandson/son/brother of a cop and his identity as a writer is ever-present--even when McDonald himself does not make an appearance on the page...
...At other times, his writing has a touch of poetry: "The night hummed with a high-pitched crackle, like a radio station not quite tuned in...
...only one in the public arena of the JAMES D. DAVIDSON church" who still believes that young West Lafayette, Ind...
...In that "in their own way" means less frehis article, and in The Catholic Myth, quent Mass attendance, more disagreeGreeley rather cavalierly dismisses the ment with church teachings about pastoral experiences of most other what it means to be a good Catholic, an priests who believe that the rate of in- increasing inclination to marry nonterfaith marriage has been increasing...
...These pages often read like a string of stories from the precinct pub, connected by a few significant events (promotions, marriage, birth of a child, etc...
...In the city, that heart was often covered with a bulletproof vest...
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...Catholics, and a growing willingness Even Greeley says he is "virtually the to marry outside the church...
...His brother's tale, while fascinating at times, does not merit the space (it numbers twice as many pages as any other section) McDonald devotes to it...
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...9To integrate personal spirituality and .2C~,n OJ~" pastoral action...
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...While Frank, Jr.'s difficulties dealing with a city consumed by racial tensions and a drug epidemic give us an important glimpse into the problems that tore at the heart of the metropolis in the 1970s and 1980s, the narrative loses its momentum here...
...It seems that the author is, at points, too close to the NYPD to write about it with the clarity and nuance of which he is clearly capable...
Vol. 127 • January 2000 • No. 2
