The Truth at the Heart of the Lie: How the Catholic Church Lost Its Soul By James Carroll

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“Courageous and inspiring.”—Karen Armstrong, author of The Case for God “James Carroll takes us to the heart of one of the great crises of our times.”—Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve An eloquent memoir by a former priest and National Book Award–winning writer who traces the roots of the Catholic sexual abuse scandal back to the power structure of the Church itself, as he explores his own crisis of faith and journey to renewal James Carroll weaves together the story of his quest to understand his personal beliefs and his relationship to the Catholic Church with the history of the Church itself. From his first awakening of faith as a boy to his gradual disillusionment as a Catholic, Carroll offers a razor-sharp examination both of himself and of how the Church became an institution that places power and dominance over people through an all-male clergy. Carroll argues that a male-supremacist clericalism is both the root cause and the ongoing enabler of the sexual abuse crisis. The power structure of clericalism poses an existential threat to the Church and compromises the ability of even a progressive pope like Pope Francis to advance change in an institution accountable only to itself. Carroll traces this dilemma back to the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages, when Scripture, Jesus Christ, and His teachings were reinterpreted as the Church became an empire. In a deeply personal re-examination of self, Carroll grapples with his own feelings of being chosen, his experiences as a priest, and the moments of doubt that made him leave the priesthood and embark on a long personal journey toward renewal—including his tenure as an op-ed columnist at The Boston Globe writing about sexual abuse in the Church. Ultimately, Carroll calls on the Church and all reform-minded Catholics to revive the culture from within by embracing anti-clerical, anti-misogynist resistance and staying grounded in the spirit of love that is the essential truth at the heart of Christian belief and Christian life.

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The noted Catholic author James Carroll has written an intriguing autobiographical sketch of his early years of formation in the Roman Catholic Church in the light of what he has come to see over the past half-century, at least—a body deeply flawed by its preoccupation with clerical power as manifest in its denial and cover-up of child abuse. The author’s tendency to commingle two different narratives—in this work, between his own first thirty years to the Church’s institutional missteps dating to New Testament times—might be distracting to those who prefer tidy narratives. But each tale is compelling and put forward with considerable passion and concern.This work may have special appeal to that cohort of Catholics who grew up in the mid-twentieth century, in the pre and post Vatican II era, and who may be asking how the promises of a renewed Church proclaimed after the Council in the 1960’s have come aground in twenty-first century division and scandal. Carroll puts forth the contention that for centuries the Church has lived “a lie,” a diversion from the simple but focused message of forgiveness preached by Jesus to an institution of self-sustaining power by a priestly monopoly. “Catholic guilt” is shorthand for the extraordinary power of a small clerical caste to grant admission to heaven or damnation to hell through the economy of the confessional. This clerical monopoly continues, in his view, to denigrate women, among its dolorous results.Born in 1943, Carroll’s youthful journey of faith highlights his attempts to navigate his faith formation in a flawed church through the “before and after” of Vatican II. He describes in considerable detail his relationship with Jesus as “his best friend” and his precocious thinking, as an altar boy, about matters of justification and the exclusivity of Catholic claims to salvation, his best friend as a youth being a Jewish neighbor. As the son of a high-ranking military officer, Carroll lived in the shadow of the Pentagon and for a time in high school, in Wiesbaden, Germany, during the chilling years of the Cuban Missile Crisis and later the Viet Nam War. The war culture—and the Catholic hierarchy’s embrace of it—impacted him deeply and played a role in his embrace of the Catholic priesthood, and his chafing against episcopal inflexibility led him to a messy departure from the priesthood after just five years of ministry.The complimentary half of this work is his historical analysis of the “lie” that has hamstrung the “spotless bride of Christ.” It is less a smoking gun than an unfortunate thrust of Christian anthropology of power and control at the cost of faith and service. Carroll begins with Christian self-understanding vis-à-vis the Jews in the first century; he mines Augustine’s thinking on the inferiority of sexual expression and, drawing from the Adam and Eve narrative, creates an inherently dangerous identity of womanhood. He contends that the unity of church and state as developed in the early medieval era elevated the Church’s self-conscious legitimacy of its claims of universal power. And while actual worldly power slipped from its grip in recent centuries, the Church intensified its internal claims of authority of the clergy.Given that the affliction of hubris has affected the Church almost from its birth, Carroll may be overly optimistic in his vision and projection of future Church reform. [Augustine might be right about original sin after all.] I tend to agree to a point with an earlier Amazon reviewer, George OJ, who observed “Most of the book [in line with its subtitle—no complaints here] is Carroll’s personal memoir, admittedly a beautifully written one, if occasionally wrapped in guilt and regret, unfortunately too late to be useful.” I see the author’s projection of a piece with that of me and my closest friends, all of us in our 70’s, veterans of the ministerial wars of reform. We would like to think that it was all not in vain.Carroll is off the mark, I believe, in his assumption that there is an army of disturbed Catholics of all ages chomping at the bit for democracy, equality, powerful liturgy, etc. A very recent Gallup Poll reveals that church membership across the board in the United States is below 50%, the lowest percentage in the eighty years of such polls. Gallup’s data is sweeping, but it does not tell us precisely why individuals have walked away from organized religions. If and when future generations return to the late great planet Catholic, it may be particularly useful to look at testimonies such as Carroll’s to learn how not to rebuild.

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