Staying Put

Michael Leach, an editor-at-large and publisher emeritus at Orbis Books, explains why he remains a committed Catholic in the age of falling Mass attendance and the clerical sexual abuse crisis. His new book, Why Stay Catholic?, lists 100 people, places and ideas that make the Catholic Church a compelling institution. On that list: the papacy, Andrew Greeley, Walter Burghardt, S.J., the Catholic Church Extension Society and the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress.