![]() "Pope Francis calls for parrhesia-bold speech without fear or favour. Janet Smith, Ph.D., Editor, Living the Truth in Love: Pastoral Approaches to Same-Sex Attraction Everyone who knew him remarked on his singularity-there was no one else like him, so intelligent and learned, so critical and ribald, so generous, so faithful and obedient, to give just a few apt adjectives.” Paul Mankowski was multitalented and had a multifaceted persona is a hint to the variety of essays you will find in this collection. Robert Reilly, Author, America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding While his pen drips with acid, he also writes with lyrical realism and spiritual beauty about his sojourns with the Missionaries of Charity." For instance, he is blistering in his unrelenting critique of the ‘lavender mafia’. Paul Mankowski scorns the things deserving scorn. "In this book, I found that all the things I wish had been said about our timorous hierarchy and variousĬhurch scandals actually had been said by this courageous Jesuit (under his Diogenes nom de guerre). Jeffrey Mirus, Ph.D., President, Trinity Communications Editor, His was a rare combination of fidelity, self-assurance, and wit, which encouraged many in the trenches." Hypocrisies within the Church, but brilliantly entertaining. Mankowski was not only prescient and precise in exposing the culture-bound George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center Mankowski was an honest man afoot in an often dishonest world.” With a biting wit and a pen that kept his readers eager for more-the ones who weren’t enraged by his musing, that is. Paul Mankowski, S.J., combined a penetrating insight into follies ecclesiastical, political, and cultural
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