The Church That Forgot Christ

After a lifetime of attending mass every Sunday, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jimmy Breslin has severed his ties to the church he once loved—in this important book, filled with a fury generated by a sense of betrayal, he explains why.

When the church sex scandals emerged relentlessly in recent years, and when it became apparent that these scandals had been covered up by the church hierarchy, Jimmy Breslin found it impossible to reconcile his faith with this new reality. Ever the reporte...