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Jesus Shock by Peter Kreeft

The life of Jesus Christ is indelibly engraved upon history; neither the erosion of time nor the devastating and compounding effects of evil have been able to erase his influence. You can’t ignore Jesus, because he changed things. He is the single greatest agent of change in human history. He made the lame walk, taught the simple, set captives free, gave sight to the blind, fed the hungry, healed the sick, comforted the afflicted, afflicted the comfortable, and in all of these, captured the imagination of every generation. (more…)

In his recent National Catholic Register post, “Why the world doesn’t take Catholicism seriously,” Matthew Warner addresses the question of why American Catholics are leaving the Church at an alarming rate. His answer is this:

“We Catholics don’t look or act any different than non-catholics. It’s that simple.
The question we must answer is ‘if Catholicism offers a better way, why don’t Catholics’ lives seem any better?’

He draws this from the Vatican II document, Gaudium et Spes,  which says, “One of the gravest errors of our time is the dichotomy between the faith which many profess and the practice of their daily lives.”

Warner proposes that the solution to this is not to wait for the institutional Church to fix the problem (though there are problems that need to be fixed), but rather to focus on “what the Church does best. Our competitive advantage. What nobody else can do like the Catholic Church does: Create saints.”

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