The Emerging Catholic Church

National Catholic Reporter editor-at-large Tom Roberts has witnessed a lot over his career: a Catholic Church still reacting to Vatican II, a dramatic demographic shift, and more recently, a sex abuse scandal that has revealed a growing inadequacy of the hierarchical culture. 

Tuesday on Up to Date, Steve Kraske talks with Roberts about the Catholic Community’s search for itself, and many of the issues with which it continues to struggle. Roberts latest book is titled The Emerging Catholic Church: A Community's Search for Itself.

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Tom Roberts is editor-at-large of The National Catholic Reporter, where he has worked for the past sixteen years. Previously he worked for ten years at the Religious News Service. He lives in Rockville, Maryland.