Converts and Kingdoms: How the Church Converted the Pagan West and How We Can Do It Again
The problem: Knowledge of our history as a nation, a civilization, a Church, is desperately needed for informed action in the world today, but most people will not read the relatively inaccessible historical scholarship of recent decades. The solution: Serious historians who are able to pack historical substance into appealing stories. Diana Moczar has been doing this for Catholics. Her latest, Converts and Kingdoms, recounts the extraordinary tales of courage, conviction, and--sometimes--corruption, that explain the forming and the weakening of the centuries-long bond between Western civilization and Christianity. Our faith is a precious heritage, a fact that we can only appreciate fully by plunging into the depths of the Catholic past. Converts and Kingdoms is a good place to start. --Kevin Schmiesing- Executive Director- CatholicHistory.net