"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
Under the patronage of St. Tammany
Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Thursday, May 30, 2002 Priest reviewer: Seminary screed sheds little light
"Goodbye, Good Men may create a great deal of controversy, but I fear that ultimately it will do little to serve the good," Rev. Robert Johansen writes in a review:
Goodbye, Good Men is in many ways an unfortunate book. It is unfortunate because the story of the problems in American seminaries needed to be told, but it needed to be told with scrupulous concern for accuracy and truth. It also needed to be told in such a way as to elicit more than righteous indignation from the faithful. It is also unfortunate because Rose's failure to make distinctions will actually distract attention from the real remaining problems in American seminaries. Rose's credibility problems and his relative lack of analysis do little to shed light on what may be done to strengthen our seminary system. Only in the last two chapters does he have anything to say about what factors come together to make a good seminary. #
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