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Loading... Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son (edition 2006)by Peter Manseau
Work detailsVows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son by Peter Manseau
None. When folks get wounded by the church the response is usually bitter resentment or chucking it all; however, for the deeply spiritually connected there's a third choice that one must go on. This is the choice of pilgrimage. On the one hand there's the wound itself, but then there's the passionate tug into the this gracefully wicked beast called the Body of Christ. This is the journey Peter Manseau takes in Vows. His father is a priest (still ordained) and his mother was a former nun both of whom still love the church in all its complexities. Peter is an excellent writer and reminds me of a less wordy Pat Conroy. The book explores the faith journey of his mother, father, and his own role as questioner to this mystical journey. This is a book that treats the church with the respect it deserves while also slinging just enough sacred cow poop to remind the church and those that preside in leadership to be very cautious with the charge they've been given. (  ) revslick | Dec 6, 2012 |  Vows is a very touching story about love triumphing over religious tradition and religious faith triumphing over cynicism. The first half of Manseau's memoir is about his priest father and ex-nun mother who fall in love and rebel against Catholic tradition by marrying. The second half is about the author himself, who goes from being a surly agnostic to a cautious believer and finally embraces religion without becoming something he isn't. Honestly, this book did more to buoy my often tenuous relationship with my own religious beliefs than any other religious book (even the Bible) ever has. ( )1  ChicGeekGirl21 | Jan 3, 2009 | Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son by Peter Manseau was very interesting. I know people who grew up in the Roman Catholic Church following Vatican II and I've heard their stories of the shock and delight of guitar masses, priests and nuns who seemed human and caring about real life, and priests and nuns who thought they would soon marry. Peter Manseau's parents were right in the middle of this time living as people who had dedicated their lives to the church. They re-evaluated the meaning of their vows in light of the new ways of studying the Bible and theology and were married. We now know that at the same time the Roman Catholic church in the US was also hiding sexual abuse by priests and shaming their victims into silence. From the present Peter Manseau re-evaluates how both the sexual abuse scandal and Vatican II affected his parents and made his life possible and complicated. Very interesting! ( )1 sara_k | Oct 7, 2007 | I read this for a bookgroup, so not my choice, but I was pleasantly surprised. It is not only the story of one couple, but of how their radical idea to get married fit in the context of the times (late 1960's). In fact, this is almost a pocket history of the American Catholic church over the past forty years. I really wonder how it was received by traditional Catholics. ( ) keferunk | Sep 6, 2006 | no reviews | add a review
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