God at the Ritz: Attraction to Infinity

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Summary: Incredible
Review: As a physics student, a catholic, and an inquiring human I highly recommend this book!! Albacete is witty, honest, and extremely insightful. He hides behind nothing. He makes it clear why we need religion just as much now as we ever did. You should be able to finihs the book in a few days too!

Rating:
Summary: Incredible
Review: As a physics student, a catholic, and an inquiring human I highly recommend this book!! Albacete is witty, honest, and extremely insightful. He hides behind nothing. He makes it clear why we need religion just as much now as we ever did. You should be able to finihs the book in a few days too!

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Summary: About the essence of life itself, its meaning, God's plan
Review: God At The Ritz: Attraction To Infinity is the candid discourse by Lorenzo Albacete (a Catholic priest and physicist with a degree in Space Science and Applied Physics), about the essence of life itself, its meaning, God's plan, and a great deal more. From surveying the balance between science and faith; to addressing the eternal questioning of why such suffering and horror exist in God's world; to the "big three" contemporary issues of sex, money, and politics; God At The Ritz is a refreshing, insightful, articulate, "reader friendly", and highly recommended attempt to make sense of the great mysteries of life, and to acknowledge that there are some concepts that can only be understood by God himself.

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Summary: Attraction to Infinity--through the finite
Review: Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete has written a serious and humorous book about the human longing, desire, and attraction for the infinite, the eternal, the mysterious "beyond." Albacete is an intellectual, and his brief critiques of other thinkers testify to a brilliant mind, but his illustrations and vignettes always spring from life: a very earthy life, his life. And so the relationship between reason and human experience forms the thread that ties this book together. That thread is a kind of judgement, but his judgement is so humble, so full of humanity and understanding, because it flows not from an abstract theory, but from a life fully lived, from a mind and a man engaged with human reality in his search for the meaning of that reality, for what lies beyond it and ultimately constitutes it. Here is a book capable of speaking to any man of any time, brimming with the humanity and generosity of its author.

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Summary: If God went to cocktail parties...
Review: While advising on a film about John Paul II, the eccentrically brilliant Monsignor Albacete stayed at the Ritz in Hollywood and was accosted by all kinds of people who asked, on location and at poolside and everywhere else, incisive questions about God, religion, evil, hope, and other matters that really matter. This little book joins their questions and his responses in a winsome apologetic that might be categorized as pre-evangelization. However categorized, it is thinking of a high order set forth with literary grace and humor, and all in the service of understanding the irrepressible human aspiration toward the infinite. This is a First THings review.