Synopsis
At The Crossroads: A Vision Of Hope is about our future, about our rights, relationships, and responsibilities, about making life better and happier. Today's children are growing up in a world with values very different from those most adults knew as children. Many freedoms we enjoyed just a few years ago are being lost to restrictions and precautions required to safeguard ourselves and our children from human predators There seems to be a double standard at work when it comes to dealing with the moral pollution which has been steadily eroding our human freedoms. Environmental pollution was met with outrage and determination to overcome it. Today we breathe cleaner air and drink cleaner water because we resolved to change. But moral pollution which diminishes joy and destroys lives often is met with resignation.Many shrug and say, "We can't do anything about it." At The Crossroads: A Vision Of Hope reminds us that we need not accept foul contaminants which corrupt our spirit any more than we need accept foul contaminants which choke and poison our bodies. It is not a theoretical treatise, but a prescription for change, starting with you and me.
About the Author
Thomas George Doran was born on February 20, 1936 in Rockford, Illinois. He attended St. James Pro-Cathedral grade school, graduating in 1950, and Campion Jesuit High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin from 1950 to 1954. Thomas Doran then entered the college seminary and completed his classical and philosophical studies at St. Pius X Seminary at Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa. On December 20, 1961, Thomas George Doran was ordained to the Sacred Priesthood for the Diocese of Rockford in the Basilica of St. Peter in Vatican City. Father Doran completed his studies, receiving a License in Sacred Theology and returned to the United States in the summer of 1962.He served in many parishes in the Rockford Diocese. Bishop Lane appointed Father Doran to be the Secretary to the Bishop on September 1, 1965 and take up residence at the Chancery on a full-time basis, and he served in this capacity, as well as being the Secretary of the Diocesan Tribunal and a Defender of the Bond, until Bishop O Neill appointed him the Chancellor of the Diocese on January 1, 1969. On July 5, 1984, Bishop O Neill appointed Father Doran to be the Rector for the Cathedral of St. Peter where he served until July 18, 1986, continuing to serve also as the Chancellor of the Diocese. When Father Doran s appointment to be a Prelate-Auditor of the Roman Rota was announced in the summer of 1986, he left his Cathedral assignment in July and then departed for Rome in the early autumn of 1986. The new Monsignor Doran served the Holy See and the Universal Church on the Roman Rota until Pope John Paul II appointed him to be the eighth Bishop of the Diocese of Rockford. Thomas George Doran was ordained and installed as the eighth Bishop of the Diocese of Rockford on June 24, 1994. The total number of clergy, religious and laity who attended this Mass was estimated to be more than 4,000 people. Bishop Doran submitted his resignation as head of the Diocese to Pope Benedict XVI on his 75th birthday, February 20, 2011 as is required by the Code of Canon Law. His experience, wit and wisdom as pastor of St.Peter Cathedral inspired writer John Gile to gather his homilies and writing and as editor, to condense and organize them into the easy-to-read, story of the role of the Catholic Church and the power of its sacraments to transform the world. At The Crossroads: A Vision of Hope is the result.
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