Why I Am Still a Catholic is written for young Catholics (especially teenagers and college students) unsure of whether or why to stay within the fold. Essays by celebrity clerics and laypeople provide personal testimonies that range from stunningly simple (TV newswoman Maria Shriver: "Why? Because it works") to outrageously elegant (novelist Andre Dubus: "Sandwiches are sacraments"). Most contributors to the anthology don"t work terribly hard to define their terms (Andrew Greeley"s theological defense of beauty, for example, takes its reader"s Catholic education for granted), but for the catechized yet confused, this book could well be a godsend. --Michael Joseph Gross