Journey to Brazil

The book comments on a journey to Amazonia and the Brazilian East Coast which the author undertakes with a former classmate a missionary priest who has lived and worked in Brazil for 50 years. The travelogue provides glimpses of a rapidly changing societal and religious scene tries to make sense of the astonishing success of Pentecostal denominations considers the legacy of a decades-old division between progressives and traditionalists in the Catholic hierarchy and envisions for the future a laity-centered Catholicism that portends changes in the Universal Church including the US.