Prodigal Daughters: Catholic Women Come Home to the Church

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Summary: Show Me The Way To Go Home
Review: A previous reviewer was angry that this book did not show the way to go home. Actually, what it shows is that the way to go hom is to go HOME, and not try to tear down the house and build a new one just because you don't like some of it. This is a wonderful book. I identified with almost every woman's story!!

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Summary: Echoing in My Own Heart
Review: Perhaps this book is too personal to be taken seriously by some. Perhaps again, the intimate and grace-driven experience of reconcilliation, conversion and Blessed Communion is to ineffable to put into words. This is not to intimate that this book fails. But perhaps it will not satisfy those who are looking for a magic exhoneration of sorts for their own claims of .... Women reconciled to the Roman catholic Church are reconciled to Jesus Christ, Himself, and the experience of Him in Word and Sacrament, indeed the actual Presence of Him in the same. Therefore, discussions of feminism, female clergy, etc, I believe, are dwarfed against the splendor of Him.They diminish, as they must. The mystery of Christ and the redemption of the soul in the lived life are far too joyous events. How can one possibly worry about smaller things in the blinding light of the Truth about all things together?

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Summary: Honest, from-the-heart stories
Review: The conversion and re-conversion stories in this book were quite moving. Don't you just love it when reviewers here slam a book without seeming to have read it? Like the reviewer who called it a "shallow treatment" and then proceeded to bring up the standard Liberal (NON-Catholic) criticisms of the Catholic Church. Catholicism is a clearly defined system of beliefs. Those who CHOOSE to believe it do not have to worry about "Gender issues" because the Catholic faith lies at a much deeper level of belief than modern politics does. Catholicism teaches that truth comes from God's revelation of HIS self rather than from some kind of left-wing political consensus. This book does a good job of displaying this truth in lives of real women.