Love Letters to Pope John Paul II

About the Book

Which city is the Roman Catholic City? Boston, Los Angeles, Milwaukee or Chicago? The reader is left to choose because the pattern of cover up by the corrupt is the same in all of the Roman Catholic Cities of the United States. Doyle turns to her background in theology to define scandal as the death of God in the Church. She brings out the persecution of a homosexual by priests. The top Priest praises her for doing the right thing. The corrupt priests use their street thug attorney to stalk her with lies and innuendo. The reader recognizes the pattern of cover up in the Church. Doyle´s Irish cousin, Jimmy Doyle, says of cover up, "They all just kept sweeping it under the rug until the rug went poof." Doyle´s book is that poof.

About the Author

Teresa Doyle grew up in an Irish American town where a spirituality of compassion ruled the Church. She then encountered the same kind of Irish Catholicism at Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa. She then moved to a Roman Catholic City University where she exposed a persecution involving homosexuality. Patriarchs tried to shut her down, which made her do the unthinkable for a Catholic woman. She picked up her pen to write Pope John Paul II. Her story became a biblical telling with her mother as her spiritual guide. In the process, she rediscovered her voice and her Irish spirituality.