Many Paths with Mary: Popular Piety and the Future Church - by Michael Rogers (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The bountiful diversity and profound spiritual maturity of Catholic popular religiosity can enrich our understandings and practices of synodality today. Michael Rogers brings readers on an international journey, focusing on how Mary, Mother of God, comes to be translated into different times and places. He expresses some of the many ways that the Holy Spirit speaks through the people of God, when popular piety emerges in the meeting of distinct cultures, through moments of meaning, and amid ruptures in justice. Attending to how popular piety can facilitate mutual understand and spiritual renewal, Rogers puts forth vital insights for forging a truly synodal Church, one that is able to "walk together" in the Spirit's stirring call.

About the Author

Michael Rogers, with theological degrees from Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and the University of Toronto, has written for Crux, America Magazine, and The Huffington Post and has been an occasional commentator for Vatican Radio, Euronews, and the Catholic News Service. He is a former fellow of the McFarland Center for Religion Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross, his undergraduate alma mater.