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Praise for Linda Brandi Cateura’s Growing Up Italian
“These
memoirs are delightful. What Mrs. Cateura does is examine what it meant in an earlier America to grow up family-oriented,
poor and immigant. This is a book about nostalgia, about a world which discriminated against Italian Americans, but also nurtured
their talents. [Poet] John Ciardi is her most profound contributor.”
—Richard
Heffner, The New York Times
“Full
of gusto and great joy for the living of life which is what growing up
Italian
means. My only regret is I wasn’t in it!” —Jack Valenti, longtime
president of the Motion Picture Association of America and author of Speak Up with Confidence
“This book with its 24 memoirs is enlightening and enchanting—it’s
a treasure—and I’m proud to be an Italian.” —Brenda Vaccaro, actress
“The Italians are a special people and this is a special book. If I was not Irish,
this book would make me want to be Italian.” —Andrew Greeley, priest,
novelist, and author of Priests: A Calling in Crisis and The Catholic Revolution
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Praise for Linda Brandi Cateura’s Catholics
USA
“[Catholics
USA] is like a family gathering of believers. Its members are of different ages and opinions, but their spiritual energy and
love of their tradition are evident. Anyone who wishes to understand Catholicism must read this book.
—Eugene Kennedy,
author of The
Unhealed Wound: The Church, the Priesthood, and the Question of Sexuality
“Catholic
diversity is abundantly evident in this collection of profiles with 25 living American Catholics… Among my favorites
is Bill Reel, columnist, who (voices) his own earthy spin, “We’ve got practically every high-school girl in Brooklyn
running around pregnant and we have AIDS and herpes problems. I don’t know whether you can blame the Church, but you
almost crave for aged monsignors to come back and tell you
you’ll go
blind if you play with yourself.”
— John Jay
Hughes, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“A very impressive
book.” —Robert F. Drinan, priest, congressman, and author of Can God and Caesar Co-exist?:
Balancing Religious Freedom and International Law
“What different
people who feel equally committed to being Catholic mean by Catholicism differs enormously. This book captures that diversity.”
—Rosemary Ruether, theologian, author of Visionary
Women: Three Medieval Mystics
“If the Catholic
Church in America ever needed defining, this may be the moment. A varied and often surprising look by Catholics at themselves
and the Church.”
— James Brady,
columnist and novelist
