Prodigal Daughters
Why seventeen lapsed Catholic women returned to the Church through society's maze of error
If you believe the secular media, young women today think about the Church only long enough to rail against "oppresive, sexist patriarchy." But these pages tell a different story - about the gentle power of God's grace in the lives even of those who want nothing to do with Him.
Noted Catholic author Donna Steichen here collects the riveting first-person stories of seventeen women who were raised in the Church, but who abandoned their childhood faith under the pressure of sexual revolution, feminism, New Age spirituality, and the lure of worldy success. With refreshing humility and self-awareness, each of these women explains what led her away from the Church and how the hidden hand of God worked in the seemly chaotic events of her life, slowly, gently, to bring her back to Him.
You'll meet the "independant thinker" who gradually began to realise she was caught in a straitjacket of fashionable but ill-thought-out positions - including a number of false prejudices about the Faith...the feminist activist who sought freedom by purging her life of God and family - and ended up realising that all she was choosing was pain and alienation...the seeker who went through today's Catholic schools in utter ignorance about the Faith, and learned its true content only when she was on the verge of leaving the Church...and many more. These stories will give you hope for even the most hardened souls - and fill you with gratitude for God's inexhaustible grace and mercy.
- The woman who tuned in to Mother Angelica to ridicule her - and stayed to pray with her
- How a realisation of God's justice, not His mercy, brought one woman back to Him
- Karma, nirvana, chakras: how and why one deeply committed New Ager said goodbye to all that and found God's holy truth
- How two women found forgiveness and new life even after abortion
- Ouija boards, drugs, promiscuity and more: how none are a match for God's grace
- And much more that will encourage you never to give up even on souls set against God - thanks to His grace!
"You won't put this down till you've read all of these women's conversion stories. All are unique, profound and deeply moving and you will surely come away with a new insight into why you yourself should believe in the Church. Truly beautiful reading!" M. P.
Donna Steichen 345 pages paperback
