Why Be Catholic?

Short Review: Why Be Catholic by Richard Rohr - this is a series of lectures that was turned into a book later. I listened to the audiobook which was just the lectures. This is from 1985, but still very relevant. A great book for Evangelicals to listen into Catholics speaking to themselves. A very encouraging listen. Two good points. 1) Rohr approaches every strength as having a corresponding weakness. So Catholics tend to be very communal and submissive to the church (he see this as a strength), but the corresponding weakness is a lack of initiative. Another strength is that the Catholic church has an extremely long view of success (the corresponding weakness is a lack of immediacy.) 2) the Catholic church has a universal look at problems and issues. So even if the average catholic does not understand the full theology, the full theology has been well thought out by someone. This leaves people able to rest in the care of the church.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/why-be-catholic/