For its own Easter celebrations, the Times Literary Supplement reviewed Ian Linden's new Global Catholicism.(While We're At It)(Brief article)

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June, 2009

For its own Easter celebrations, the Times Literary Supplement reviewed Ian Linden's new Global Catholicism. It's a book that begins with this Chinese proverb: When a tree falls it crashes with a noise, but when a forest grows no one hears anything. The same can be said of global Catholicism: The world only hears about condoms and clerical scandals, but in the meantime the real story is ignored.

The reviewer, Rupert Shortt, nicely summarizes the story: "Secularists might be surprised to learn that the Church is the largest single supplier of healthcare and education on the planet, the principle glue of civil society in Africa, the strongest bulwark of opposition to the caste system in India, and a leading player in global campaigns for sustainable living. It...

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