PREFAZIONE - A Personal Preface

A Personal Preface
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Catholicism can change in ways that his predecessors rejected, and who faces resistance
Note:LA FEDE DI BERGOGLI

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It is also a story that cannot be written about neutrally.

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I made an intellectualized religious choice,

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choosing Catholicism because its claims were more convincing

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My fellow serious Catholics seemed to have sincerity and certainty where I had irony and doubt.
Note:CMQ DIVERSO

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I was always forgetting basic prayers

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approach the dogmas
Note:SEMPRE UN PROBLEMA

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constantly ran variations on Pascal’s Wager in my head.

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Sometimes I felt as though my conversion was incomplete,
Note:DUBBI

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I knew who were loyal to the church as a community but doubtful of its doctrines, I did not want this tension to be smoothed
Note:TENERE ALTO LO STANDARD... IL CATTIVO CATTOLICO UNA RAZZA IN VIA DI ESTINZIONE

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a religion that just confirmed me
Note:CHE TRISTEZZA

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I wanted the church to be the church,

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I am temperamentally quite comfortable with the ways of modern
Note:ANCHE SE SONO UN TRADIZIONAISTA

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I have always appreciated Catholicism because it doesn’t fit my personality,
Note:PERCHÈ AMO IL CATTOLICESIMO

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some sort of existential wrestling match,
Note:WRESTLING...PIÙ NESSUNO CON CUI LOTTARE

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recent Catholic history suffer from a kind of inevitabilism.
Note:LA NUOVA MALATTIA...BIAS A SINISTRA

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church will simply have to make all the reforms that recent popes resisted,
Note:A SINISTRA

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a kind of liberal Christianity is the destination

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wherever Rome has spoken, the argument is sound, the case is closed,
Note:IL BIAS A DESTRA

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This book is not inevitabilist. It is conservative,
Note:A CARTE SCOPERTE

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church needs a settled core of doctrine,
Note:L ESIGENZA...NO ALLA CHIESA LIQUIDA

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church should instill a certain amount of doubt about what exactly constitutes the Catholic core,
Note:TUTTAVIA...

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blurry,

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“To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant,”
Note:JH NEWMAN

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Francis era’s competing visions for the church:
Note:TUTTE LASCIANO DUBBI

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So where does that leave us? With uncertainty,
INCERTEZZA