"Bad Church Good Church: A Memoir of a Former Catholic Priets"is the story of the author's journey to discover his own conscience and his struggle to free himsellf from the harsh moral positions of the Catholic leadership. Against the background of the sexual scandals of Catholic clergy,it tells the story of how he discovered that religion and spirituality are not the same. You can be religious and not at all spiritual.In case after case he realized that the people believed that they were doomed to hell if they did not obey the moral teaching of the church leadership. He left the church when the pope reiterated the church's condemnation of birth control.