I just read this book. It is both funny and serious. I would highly reccommend getting the audiobook with it. I guarantee you will be laughing out loud while reading and listening to it.
John
5.0 out of 5 stars Catholic Guy branches out, August 25, 2011
By Carol Blank (USA) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER) This review is from: Sinner: The Catholic Guy's Funny, Feeble Attempts to Be a Faithful Catholic (Paperback)
Lino Rulli is "The Catholic Guy" of the Sirius XM Satellite Radio show of the same name. As a communications major with a graduate degree in theology, Rulli, who was born in 1971, is well known for his appeal to young adults. In fact, he won an Emmy Award for his work as executive producer and host of Generation Cross, a TV show that ran from 1998 to 2004. His natural gift for comedy is a big part of the stories he tells.
In "Sinner," his first book, Rulli writes from the perspective of one who believes everything the Church teaches but struggles to put those beliefs into practice. In addition to his ability to see humor in almost any situation, especially in his own foibles, Rulli, who is single, writes as if he has a great deal of freedom and flexibility not available to his peers who have family responsibilities.
In Chapter 7 for example, after a chance meeting with an old friend, Rulli ended up moving to Nassau, Bahamas, to teach high school religion, which sounded like a fantastic gig. He explains that he always tries to see where God might be leading him and to trust in God's plan.
The Bahamas position didn't measure up to Rulli's fantasy involving mai tais and enthralled students, but he did spend several months in a Benedictine monastery considering a vocation as a monk, which might have been closer to what God had in mind. In the end, the prior decided that Lino should not be a monk--too immature. Rejection was painful, but Rulli bounced back, finding his way to the beach where he shared a beer with a stranger who theorized that aliens led the three wise men to the nativity scene. That episode is pretty typical of The Catholic Guy's adventures and gift for storytelling. He is funny, but not in the stand-up comedian sense, which may be why his efforts to get on the writing team for Late Night with David Letterman didn't pan out.
John Paul II, Letterman, and Howard Stern are role models to The Catholic Guy. Stern and Letterman seem to be outsiders, a category Lino says fits him. His radio show, on the same network that carries Stern, is similar to that of the shock jock, involving free flowing banter among regulars and occasional guests. Unlike Stern, however, Rulli often talks about Catholic matters and avoids language and content not appropriate for a show sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
SINNER
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More on this book. Worth listening too. Be prepared to laugh.
http://www.thegoodcatholiclife.com/2011 ... ino-rulli/
John
http://www.thegoodcatholiclife.com/2011 ... ino-rulli/
John
