I would like to share with you the fact that my book has recently been published. I retired in 2008  and have spent the last six years writing Judas Was a Bishop, a cross between  a memoir of my eighty years as a Catholic, a priest, a married man and an academic, and the changes in my thinking about the Church over the last thirty years propelled by, among other things, the behavior of the American bishops during the abuse crisis.  There’s a focus on ecclesiology, some recommendations on how the church ought to develop in response to the many failures of our episcopacy in the oversight of the clergy, and on clericalism as a corroding disease in the presence of which no flowering of genuine Christian community life is possible.  Pope Francis, that amazing Christian, got this right.   

Very few of my views would be acceptable to the hierarchy and no Catholic publisher would touch the book.  But what the heck!  I was eighty just a few days ago and it’s about time I said my unvarnished piece.

I think you will find the book stimulating, provocative,  maybe even bothersome and objectionable,  and well worth the few dollars it cost at Amazon and B&N.  I hope I can put together a panel on the book for the general convention at Regis College.  I look forward to seeing you there.

Bill

 Here’s the information:

William M. Shea | Anaphora Literary Press

Judas Was a Bishop: An Old Man in His Reforming Catholic Church: ($25, 330pp, 6X9", Print ISBN: 978-1-68114-211-1, EBook ISBN: 978-1-68114-212-8, October 2015):