BAD CHURCH GOOD CHURCH: A MEMOIR OF A FORMER CATHOLIC PRIEST is not a theological treatise. It is the story of a man who grew up at the beginning of the Great Depression in a poor Irish-Catholic neighborhood in Philadelphia, became a priest and left the priesthood and the church. The memoir begins with a realization that there are two Catholic churches, one the imperial, authoritarian, male-dominated and intolerant church. The other is the church...