THE LITURGICAL PRESS ANNOUNCES PUBLICATION OF SACRED SILENCE: DENIAL AND THE CRISIS IN THE CHURCH AUTHOR DONALD COZZENS SPEAKS OUT

THE LITURGICAL PRESS ANNOUNCES PUBLICATION OF

SACRED SILENCE: DENIAL AND THE CRISIS IN THE CHURCH

AUTHOR DONALD COZZENS SPEAKS OUT ON THE CURRENT CRISIS In THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
COLLEGEVILLE, MINNESOTA

The Liturgical Press announces the upcoming publication of Sacred Silence: Denial and the Crisis in the Church by Donald Cozzens. In Sacred Silence, Cozzens probes the conscious and unconscious dynamics that sustain the Church's culture of silence and points the Church in the direction of candor and honest dialogue.

Cozzens is visiting associate professor of religious studies at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio. He is author of the international best-selling The Changing Face of the Priesthood(The Liturgical Press, 2000), an award-winning book in which Cozzens offers insight into the crisis in the Church by reflecting on the issues, challenges, concerns, and realities of the priesthood today. He has appeared on Meet the Press with Tim Russert looking at the crisis in the Catholic Church today. Cozzens was also a guest on Fresh Airwith Terry Gross to discuss The Changing Face of the Priesthood.
"Donald Cozzens is calling not for revolution but for retrieval--a reform based in recovery of the Church's trust in truth and in the Spirit's guidance," said Patrick Henry, author and executive director of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at Saint John's University in Collegeville. "Like Yves Congar and John Courtney Murray in the generation before his, he sees contemporary challenges to the Church as opportunities rather than threats but knows that they become threats if met with silence and denial. Just as Congar and Murray helped pave the way for Vatican II, I believe Cozzens will be recognized in retrospect as one of the forerunners of Vatican III."

Published in hardcover, 160 pages, 6 x 9, at $19.95, Sacred Silence will be available in early November in religious and trade bookstores or directly from The Liturgical Press. Call: 1-800-858-5450; fax: 1-800-445-5899; or e-mail: sales@litpress.org. A complete catalog is also available online: www.litpress.org.

For more information about Sacred Silence, please contact Ken Brokamp at The Liturgical Press.

THE LITURGICAL PRESS ANNOUNCES PUBLICATION OF SACRED SILENCE: DENIAL AND THE CRISIS IN THE CHURCH AUTHOR DONALD COZZENS SPEAKS OUT ON THE CURRENT CRISIS In THE CATHOLIC CHURCH COLLEGEVILLE, MINNESOTA The Liturgical Press announces the upcoming publication of Sacred Silence: Denial and the Crisis in the Church by Donald Cozzens. In Sacred Silence, Cozzens probes the conscious and unconscious dynamics that sustain the Church's culture of silence and points the Church in the direction of candor and honest dialogue.
Cozzens is visiting associate professor of religious studies at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio. He is author of the international best-selling The Changing Face of the Priesthood(The Liturgical Press, 2000), an award-winning book in which Cozzens offers insight into the crisis in the Church by reflecting on the issues, challenges, concerns, and realities of the priesthood today. He has appeared on Meet the Press with Tim Russert looking at the crisis in the Catholic Church today. Cozzens was also a guest on Fresh Airwith Terry Gross to discuss The Changing Face of the Priesthood. "Donald Cozzens is calling not for revolution but for retrieval--a reform based in recovery of the Church's trust in truth and in the Spirit's guidance," said Patrick Henry, author and executive director of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at Saint John's University in Collegeville. "Like Yves Congar and John Courtney Murray in the generation before his, he sees contemporary challenges to the Church as opportunities rather than threats but knows that they become threats if met with silence and denial. Just as Congar and Murray helped pave the way for Vatican II, I believe Cozzens will be recognized in retrospect as one of the forerunners of Vatican III." Published in hardcover, 160 pages, 6 x 9, at $19.95, Sacred Silence will be available in early November in religious and trade bookstores or directly from The Liturgical Press. Call: 1-800-858-5450; fax: 1-800-445-5899; or e-mail: sales@litpress.org. A complete catalog is also available online: www.litpress.org. For more information about Sacred Silence, please contact Ken Brokamp at The Liturgical Press.