Tuesday, August 11, 2020

The Church in an age of deception

Street riots. Iconoclasm.
Fourth trimester abortions.
Gay weddings. Transgenderism.


In times like these, we
need the Catholic Church to
operate with moral authority.


Distressed American Catholics
are understandably yearning for
big solutions to the big problems
facing our Church and society.


Yet, sadly, the Church has lost
much of her patrimony, her vitality,
and her very credibility — just
when it's needed most.





Into the gathering darkness,
author Brandon McGinley sheds light.


Unlike others who are responding to
today’s crises, McGinley does not propose
that we return to an unrealistically
romanticized Catholic past.


Rather, he argues that these disturbing
days offer us a tremendous opportunity
to rescue our Church — provided we can
muster the holy confidence needed to
seize this God-given moment
.





McGinley shows how, with the help
of much prayer and sacramental grace,
we can reinvigorate our communities in
ways that will transform ourselves, the
Church, and the entire world.


With painstaking clarity, he unearths
what was working, and what wasn’t, in the
decades before Vatican II, and shows how
genuine Catholic renewal can emerge only
through a return to our true Catholic
identity as applied to the
contemporary world.


We have everything we need — we
have Christ! — and now we have a clear
roadmap to guide families, parishes, schools,
ourselves, and the institutional Church
back from the abyss.


Carpe diem!




The Prodigal Church: Restoring Catholic Tradition in an Age of Deception
by Brandon McGinley
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208 pages 


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"The Prodigal Church is an essential intervention from one of our most exciting young Catholic commentators, offering both a forceful critique of the bourgeois spirit in American Catholicism and a practical, humane blueprint for renewal."

Sohrab Ahmari

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"This book is about more than the challenges we face, it is a brilliant and insightful examination of what the Church can be. No book is more effective at communicating what we must recover, ways to innovate, and how we must act in order to have a thriving Church in the 21st century."

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"This book is as clear-eyed about the past as it is about the future. McGinley draws from history so that we can learn from the saints’ successes. But he applies those lessons to the future in ways that are fresh, realistic, and astonishingly creative."

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Vice President of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, Author
"Brandon McGinley’s book is a bracing work, rooted in a fierce love for the Church and Christ’s people. McGinley proposes simply that the Church must be the Church, and reminds us how to be rooted and receive what God gives."

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Author, Speaker, Blogger

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