An ex-priest shares the true story of his difficult celibate life—and his perspective on the abuses resulting from the Catholic Church's stance on sex.In all the coverage of the priestly sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, one story has been left untold: the story of the little understood, nearly secret everyday lives of Catholic priests in America, even as one priestly sexual predation after another has come to light.In telling his story, Paul E. ...

The collision of COVID-19 and Christmas 2020 provoked Paul Dinter to try and make sense of Christianity's ancient narrative of "good news." Seeing the virus as a surrogate for many unseen perils confronting our world, he determined to revisit not only December's strange yet familiar story, but also the stranger beliefs built upon it. Examining the larger Christian narrative of salvation, as captured in the Apostles' Creed, makes up the body of the book in which Dinter delves into its symbo...