Dan Barry’s View from the Pew
Dan Barry is a reporter for the NY Times. His regular columns included “About New York” and “This Land.” His book, Pull Me Up, is a memoir of growing up an an Irish-American family in Long Island, and his struggle as an adult with cancer.
Barry wrote a wonderful article for the Times that appeared just before Pope Benedict’s visit. “The View from My Pew” beautifully articulates what many American Catholics feel about their faith and themselves. I especially loved his description of himself as “the classic stumbling, grumbling, trying-to-sort-it-all-out American Catholic.”