Review of my book by the Italian American Press

How to Keep your Faith by Carl DiLorenzo

All his life Carl DiLorenzo was haunted by the memory of his father. Who was he? What was the source of his great faith? Why did he have to die so young?

Carl did not want his own children to be asking such questions about him some day. In 2000 he sat down to write the story of his life and his growth in the Roman Catholic Church. What emerged is more than a family keepsake. How to Keep Your Faith is a powerful statement of faith and hope for all Catholics, indeed, for all Christians. But it is more than a testimonial. This is the story of a young Italian American boy, growing up in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s, in the bosom of an extended Italian family who loved food, make their own wine in their Brooklyn tenement, danced and sang on Catholic feast days as they passed their faith from generation to generation. This is the story of a young man coming of age, learning awkwardly and hilariously about sex and love, work and faith, and the pain of losing loved ones before their time.

How to Keep Your Faith is the story of a man growing in faith, even as he questions his church's hierarchy and its decisions. And ultimately it is proof that a man of faith can also be a man of reflection and curiosity.

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