David Gibson

The Coming Catholic Church

How the Faithful are Shaping a New American Catholicism

Talking Points

David Gibson has covered the Vatican and the National Conference of Catholic Bishops news frequently - he has also covered the American cardinals’ meeting with the Pope, the American bishops’ meetings in Dallas and Washington and can get and has gotten access to those among the Cardinals and bishops who are willing to work hard for reform. Gibson is the reporter that other reporters go to for sources and insight on the Catholic Church. Rather than chronicling the well-reported sexual abuse scandal, Gibson shows how a radical reformation is being unleashed that will change American Catholicism from now on. He has appeared on PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, Good Day New York, ABC News, and the book has been reviewed by TIME, the New York Times Book Review, and The Washington Post Book World.

Description

A hopeful yet realistic book that Catholics are hungry for: lay people across the spectrum, from liberal to conservative, along with nuns, good and courageous priests are leading the way toward a radical reformation that will open the way to married priests, more leadership roles for women, increased influence and authority on the part of lay people, increased democratization and decentralization, and less hierarchical and secret decision-making.