A beloved theologian shares his views on the undertones of spiritual maturity. In these short and personal essays, Bernard Haring discusses the components of moral competence. Haring sees the achievement of virtue as a holistic endeavor concerned with the entire personality in the context of its human relationships.

My Hope for the Church offers a gentle but no-holds-barred commentary on the significant issues facing the Church. In this challenging vision of the future, Bernard Haring provides us with hope and positive encouragement for the Catholic Church of the 21st century. Paperback

A candid, bold, and often hard-hitting commentary on the Roman Catholic priesthood. Bernard Haring makes an impassioned plea for a ministry marked by mutuality with the laity.

Considered by many to be the most significant figure in Catholic moral theology in the second half of the 20th century, Bernard Haring has had a pioneering role in the modern Church. This is his long-awaited autobiography: the personal & bittersweet memoir of a son, brother, soldier, priest, evangelist, & renowned writer. While a young priest, Haring was drafted as a German army medic in World War II. A man of staunch will & unshakable faith, he defied orders forbidding him to say Mass & risked his life to minister to refugees, Jewish concentration camp inmates, & soldiers from the opposing side. A prolific writer, he is best known for Free & Faithful in Christ, a pioneering work of moral theology that proposed a life-centered, rather than a sin-centered, code of Catholic conduct. Haring served as an expert (peritus) at the Second Vatican Council, playing a seminal role in the drafting of the document "Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World," & was a member of the papal birth-control commission, arguing strongly for a change in Catholic contraceptive teaching. Later in life, Haring lived under the shadow of an investigation & trial by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, yet never faltered in his efforts to speak out. Free & Faithful is both an insider's view of the major currents shaking the life of the Catholic Church as well as a deeply moving personal testament of faith.

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