BLACK POPES: Authority: Its Use and Abuse

by T. D. Roberts ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

As a number of the Jesuit Order and for years the Catholic of the author is well qualified to write of Catholic authority and power. His back was prompted, we feel sure, by attacks on Catholic authoritarianism such as American Freedom and Catholic Power. The issues raised are faced frankly and in an spirit. He admits the dangers in authoritarianism and many Catholic priests have succumbed to the danger. He quotes frequently ""All power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely"". vigorously the Catholic position that authority and obedience are and outside the Church. But power must be responsible; authority must asserted and enforced; obedience must be intelligent, not blind or servils. for the Catholic is to God in whom rests final power and authority. and freedom are essential and, he believes, guaranteed in the Catholic system. A book which deserves wide reading by both Catholics and non-Catholics, who are with the relation of Catholic power and authority to democratic .

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1954

Categories: NONFICTION